At the just-concluded DTDS Global Digital Talent Development Online Summit, more than 10,000 participants from all walks of life received enthusiastic responses and positive evaluations. Geek Time Enterprise Edition Will sort out the wonderful content shared by each speaker of the conference in the next few days for everyone's reading and reference.
Capability Enhancement Flywheel: A New Environment for Digital Talent Growth
Vice President of Geek State Technology & President of Dual Number Research Institute Fu Xiaoyan
The following is a transcript of the speech:
The content I want to share with you today includes three parts:
I. What is the digital economy and digital talents? The cultivation of digital talents must be targeted, so it is necessary to understand what skills digital talents should have through the definition of the digital economy.
Second, how does the KaaS system proposed by Geek State serve the cultivation of digital talents?
3. What kind of platform support does the KaaS service system need?
Digital Economy and Digital Talent
The definition of this round of digital transformation
What is the definition of this digital transformation? What is the difference between this round of digital transformation and our previous discussion of transformation, digitalization or informatization? I personally believe that the biggest difference is that this round of digital transformation has a unified impetus of national policies, a very powerful driving force, and it is very important to understand digital transformation from a policy perspective.
One of the benefits of interpreting digital transformation from a policy perspective is the ability to authoritatively unify understandings on the greatest possible scale. It is easier to form a synergy after understanding and then promoting digital transformation, otherwise each enterprise has its own understanding, and the high school grassroots of each enterprise also has its own understanding, and it will become difficult to promote digital transformation. It is equivalent to us saying that we do standardization, the car is on the same track, and the book is the same text.
The definition of digitalization in the 14th Five-Year Plan, the most important policy for digital transformation, is "to meet the digital era, activate the potential of data elements, promote the construction of a network power, accelerate the construction of a digital economy, digital society, and digital government, and drive the transformation of production methods, lifestyles and governance methods with digital transformation as a whole." ”
This passage answers many questions about digitalization, such as whether digitalization is a new era, and "embracing the digital age" can be seen as a new era. What are the starting points for transformation? From the definition of "data elements" and "network power", it can be known that data and network are the two major grippers of transformation. There is also a grasp implicit in the latter sentence "accelerate the construction of digital economy, digital society, digital government", which requires software and hardware, especially software, through software to use data. The three big starting points for digital transformation are data, networking, and software.
Through the definition of digitalization, we can see that we are facing a new era, and to shape this new era through data and software, it will bring me overall changes in all aspects of production and life.
This round of digital transformation includes keywords such as "high quality, double cycle, and system concept". In the past, it was said that the economic talks were growing at a high speed, but such an era has gradually passed, and the quality of growth is even more important today.
The pattern of new economic growth is a double cycle - there is an internal cycle and an external cycle. China is currently the world's second largest economy, according to a certain growth rate estimates, the mainland to become the largest GDP economy is only a matter of time, such a large economy, internal stability, so the internal cycle is the foundation, the external cycle is our connection with the whole world.
In the "14th Five-Year Plan" also emphasized a very important concept, this concept is that everyone must pay attention to learning or doing digital transformation practice, that is, the system concept, emphasizing that everything is viewed from the perspective of the overall situation and connection, since we must look at the problem from the perspective of the system concept, digital transformation must be an overall transformation.
A definition of the digital economy based on digital transformation
In recent years, the term "digital economy" has been very hot, so what is the digital economy? The digital economy is defined in the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy recently issued by the State Council, and it is based on digital transformation:
"A new economic form following the agricultural economy and the industrial economy, with data resources as the key element, modern information networks as the main carriers, and the integration and application of information and communication technologies and the digital transformation of all factors as the important driving force to promote a new economic form with more unified fairness and efficiency."
Here you can see that the concept of digitalization is revealed again. With data as the element and the network as the carrier, data and networks are available; what is the convergence of ICT applications? Software-based, of course, there is hardware; digital transformation is the transformation of all elements, after which all elements will take on new data forms, such as the digital twin now is one of the expressions. This concept of the digital economy has a strong digital definition in it.
Regarding the digital economy, three important aspects are also mentioned in the 14th Five-Year Plan – industrial digitalization, digital industrialization, and public services. These three aspects are what enterprises and institutions need to do.
Industrial digitalization: the application is the evolution of traditional industries to digital forms;
Digital industrialization: enablers, including technology enterprises and infrastructure construction, to provide the foundation and support for industrial digital transformation;
Public Service: Refers specifically to government-related digital transformation.
The word that appears most frequently in these three parts is "platform". From this point of view, the digital economy is an economic form with a number of large platforms as the core, and the national policy encourages leading enterprises and software companies in various industries to cooperate to create industry general software and create an industry integration platform, through this integrated platform, connect the upstream and downstream of the industry, and solve the problems of supply chain finance in the past, that is, supply chain management and supply chain finance.
Banks have been doing supply chain finance for many years, and this topic has been difficult to crack, because the supply chain usually connects upstream and downstream with core enterprises, rather than the commercial network of the whole society. Then the integrated platform created by this round of digitalization will be a better social network after cross-industry connection in the future, and everyone can better find their own interest positioning through this network, rather than positioning the interests of core enterprises. In this way, the fairness and efficiency mentioned in the digital economy can be better achieved. Therefore, the platform is an important tool and means for the digital economy.
A definition of digital talent for the digital economy
Based on the definition of the digital economy, what kind of digital talents do we need? How do we define digital talent? When facing the digital economy, people who have the skills to work digitally can be called digital talents.
What does digital job skills include? In response to the definition of digitalization and the digital economy, the three most important elements are: data, networks, and (hardware and software) tools. Data is the most important factor of production, in the future all elements will be digitized, data will occupy a considerable proportion of daily work and life.
In fact, there are many things in daily life now based on data decisions, such as where to eat at noon, open app search, the above will show the data of all restaurants, which sort by distance is a decision-making method, sort by price is also a decision-making method, according to the review sort is another decision-making way, this is digital decision-making.
And then there are the tools. We don't have to use our brains to process this data, but we use tools, like the App just said, which helps us process the data of these restaurants and help us make decisions more efficiently.
Then there needs to be a sense of the network. Generalization is a kind of collaborative work. Everyone establishes a new connection model through the network, that is, the production collaboration mode, which is mainly based on collaboration. So in the digital age, collaboration is a very important thing.
Although everyone's ability is becoming stronger and stronger, only through better collaboration through the network can we position ourselves in society and integrate ourselves into the ecology.
Therefore, people who master the skills and thinking of data, digital tools and networks are digital talents. What are the types of digital talent?
Specialized technical personnel, do technical work, such as Java development, front-end are special technical personnel, they create digital needs to use the tools, tools to create and use two levels, you have to create tools before you can use.
Horizontal technical architecture talents, the term "architecture" is very popular now, and it is considered a very high-end word. When everyone cultivates their own ability, after a breakthrough in a certain special project, they all hope to have horizontal extension, and this horizontal extension is, to a certain extent, a kind of architecture. From a technical point of view, the so-called architecture is that a variety of technical tools, or a variety of technology types can be combined to obtain a better result. Or combine more skill ability modules and functional modules to get a better system.
Compound talents on the business side and management side are currently the difficulty of our definition, the technical side can have a clear definition, including geek state also has a growth path in this regard, but when it comes to the business side, this problem becomes very difficult, enterprises need business and technology compound talents, but few people can clearly define what is business and technology composite talents.
For example, in the work experience, both business and technology, called business and technology composite talent, I personally think that there are many standards, or a lot of ideas worth further exploration.
Business and technology compound talents require a relatively high depth of understanding of business and technology, which determines that there are fewer such talents, and we usually say that the business side composite talents are more business talents who master digital thinking.
For example, the existing business personnel of the enterprise need to master more digital tools, master the cognition of data, the awareness of data, and the sense of collaborative work generated through the network, and turn themselves into a business person working in a data environment, which is the most demanded talent in the digital transformation of enterprises.
The last part is the most important helmsman in the enterprise, that is, the digital thinking manager.
Reasonable distribution of digital talents in industrial digital enterprises
Whether it is in the modern new technology industry, the Internet platform driven by data elements, and the transformation of traditional industries - digital finance, digital manufacturing, digital agriculture, it is necessary to combine different types of digital talents to become a good enterprise. So, what proportions of different digital talents need to be combined?
When we talked about the cultivation of digital talents before, we talked about three categories of digital talents: digital technology talents, digital application talents and digital management talents. According to the types of digital talents just mentioned, they can be further subdivided: digital technology talents have special technical talents and horizontal architecture talents.
Horizontal architecture talents need to learn for a long time, learn more content, and need more practical experience, so relatively speaking, it is a relatively small part of technical talents, and it is also the growth direction of technical personnel.
In the digital application talent, that is, the use of digital tools of the talent, the most is the digital thinking ability of business talents, such talents and then sink down, and then in-depth training, such as through the study of business architecture, through the way of thinking of business architecture, some of them will be cultivated into industry technology composite talents, this so-called composite type is able to propose a combination of business and technology solutions, not just put forward some inspiration or ideas, to really assist the technical side to complete the design of new business.
This part of the talent, relatively speaking, is a minority of the business personnel, they are more inclined to technology, and it is the combination of the horizontal architecture personnel of this part of the business and the horizontal architecture personnel of the technology that opens up the channel between the business and the technology. The top part is the digital thinking manager. I believe that in the future of enterprises, the distribution of talents will probably be such a combination.
A KaaS system for digital talent
After talking about the digital economy and digital talents, I believe that everyone has a preliminary idea of how to cultivate digital talents within the enterprise, but the talent training of each enterprise is not completed independently. Just mentioned that the digital economy is a platform economy, the development of the platform means that everyone must connect with each other and enjoy each other's services.
Establish a KaaS system for learning in a new environment
What is the KaaS (Knowledge as a Service) system for digital talent? After in-depth research, geek state currently proposes to establish a new learning environment KaaS system, which is a dual-cycle system, including the value inner ring and the value outer ring. Geek State believes that this new KaaS system should be defined from three success points:
Learner Success: As an individual learner, you need to succeed in your studies.
Lecturer success: As a lecturer, that is, the lecturer of the production of the course, to achieve lecturer-level success;
Business Success: Another important point is that businesses must also succeed.
Only when all three are successful can the KaaS system be recycled.
Learners hope to acquire knowledge through learning, and this knowledge finally acts on a certain job of the B-end enterprise to improve its career path, that is, through a successful learning path, leading a successful career path.
We often say that everyone should learn for life, and lifelong learning is not a lifelong time, but a directional and efficient lifelong learning. Therefore, there is a need for a system that provides an effective learning path for individuals.
If the individual's learning path is explored by its own strength, it will be a long process, where should the individual's learning path come from? Just mentioned that each individual eventually has to work in the enterprise, so most of the time there is a certain connection between the personal learning path and the talent training path of the enterprise, although the two are not necessarily exactly the same, but there must be some connection.
Through this KaaS system, we will also help enterprises sort out the talent system for digital development, and can also drive the expansion of course direction and learning enthusiasm through excellent enterprises in digital transformation. Successful enterprises in digital transformation share their learning experiences and become successful cases in the whole society, and can also be made into business cards, knowledge-based enterprises are the best business cards in the digital age.
By sorting out the talent system for enterprises, the junior high school and senior requirements of each position, or the different levels of employee skills (understanding, familiarity, mastery, mastery), what are the requirements for different abilities, these requirements are adapted or adjusted, and become the learning rules for C-end individual learners.
In this way, the two links the individual and the enterprise, so that the individual learning and corporate internal training are more effective. An important element of the connection between the two is that someone must provide content, and this content is the value provided by instructors with rich practical experience.
Lecturers have a lot of growth experience and knowledge reserves want to share, but according to what kind of structure sharing is the most effective for learners, each lecturer's understanding is different, as a KaaS platform service provider, Geek Bang helps lecturers polish the course structure, into a structure that is more acceptable to learners.
I am also a sharer myself, from writing column articles to writing books, to recording courses in geek time, I have fully experienced the closed loop of knowledge sharing, which is not only very helpful for improving efficiency, but also a very good boost for the personal growth of lecturers, because in the digital age of digitalization, I believe that knowledge is the best IP for everyone, and continuous sharing can continue to break their ceiling.
Special emphasis is placed on sharing in the Extraordinary Learning Method, which mentions that "one's own understanding is not real understanding, and being able to explain it to others is called true understanding." In the process of sharing, there will be people who constantly challenge your cognition, and through this challenge, you can continue to break the upper limit of your knowledge.
So I believe that under the KaaS system, everyone can be in a positive cycle: on the outer ring, the talent introduction of the company, the success of learners and lecturers can be connected. On the inner loop, the needs of the enterprise, personal growth and curriculum design can also be connected, so that the dual cycle of the KaaS system is established.
Any healthy economic model or business model must be a sustainable cyclical model, and I believe that under the KaaS system, Geek State can enable producers and consumers to continue to transform, so that knowledge can be more effectively disseminated in the digital age, and help more people succeed.
"Knowledge Weaving" learning method
Learning is all methodical, just mentioned the extraordinary learning method is a method, and now Geek State based on the experience of long-term polishing courses, including the experience of serving a large number of enterprises, found that the most efficient way to learn is knowledge weaving (Knowledge Fabric), that is, weaving knowledge through the way of warp and weft.
From this map, you can see that the horizontal special knowledge includes business special knowledge, technical special knowledge, just like the latitude, the latitude also contains a metaphor, the higher the latitude master the fewer people; the more specialized the knowledge, the less people master, they all belong to a certain professional skill.
How to connect these professional skills with each other, or when learning a specific skill, learning another skill will become faster, and how to make the knowledge learned easier to put into the substantive environment of the enterprise and easier to share with others, at this time needs to be arranged on the vertical line of cognitive-related systems:
Systematic thinking: stringing together different knowledge through system concepts;
Historical thinking: understand the history of the discipline studied, the history of a business, the history of an enterprise, in order to generate research and judgment on trends: to produce potential guidance for learning;
Ecological thinking: It's impossible for everyone to learn everything, so ultimately it's about working together.
Through vertical cognition of thinking, the special knowledge is raised to a higher level, this weaving method will make learning more efficient, and it is also the path for everyone to eventually grow. Eventually, you'll find that when you have a framework system, learning and absorbing any knowledge becomes faster.
We often say that we are very busy, there are few large blocks of time to learn, and we need to use fragment time to learn, but the fragment time is relatively short, and the learning is often a point, how this point plays a role in the existing knowledge system, it is necessary to establish a structure of knowledge through systematic thinking and historical thinking, in order to make scattered points come in and make fragmented learning more effective.
Invest your time as a resource
The most important thing to learn is to invest resources, and the most important and fair resource is time. We often say that no matter how rich you are, the time is also 24 hours, so how to use these 24 hours is the way everyone makes a difference in learning results.
This picture is my own way of practicing, I prefer to use the way of planning, and put time into my goal plan as a resource. For example, I was once invited to write an article about middle office, and I made it a goal. How to complete an in-depth analysis of the middle office in one to two months. After the plan is determined, one to two months is a time resource to invest in my plan, what I want to learn, what information to collect, what output to have, and establish a clear goal. In this process, I used a large chunk of time and also used a fragment of time to combine the two.
If you want to improve, you must squeeze out a large amount of time to let yourself learn. In the process of learning enterprise architecture myself, as a non-technical person, I read a lot of system design books, including foreign original software engineering related books, which are difficult to read with fragmented time, because it requires systematic understanding of the curriculum, I can only squeeze in the early morning time, enter the learning state, and use a large block of time to overcome difficulties.
There must be such a breakthrough process, after this stage, the learning efficiency of fragmented time will be significantly improved, because you already have a knowledge system, fragments are only used to fill, this way combined, you can have a real breakthrough. Of course, this is my personal learning habits, everyone can learn according to their own habits, do not deliberately oppose their past learning habits, and follow their own path will be the most effective learning method.
KaaS-based geek platform
Just talked about the understanding of KaaS, KaaS also has a cycle, including the value inner ring, the value outer ring, producers and consumers can transform each other. However, one of the great features of the digital economy is the platform economy, so to support the implementation of the KaaS concept, there must be a platform.
Geek State has spent several years to build the platform, you can take a look at the development process of Geek State. Geek State was the earliest to do InfoQ Geek Media, a technical media and community, starting from information dissemination, in this way gathered a large number of excellent experts, including the later founded TGO Kunpeng Club, forming a rich base of expert resources, these experts have a strong willingness to share, so in 2017, Geek State created a geek time App for the individual, through a very high standard of PGC content production, after a lot of professional polishing, in order to form a column course.
After the accumulation of platform experience on the C side, the digital transformation of enterprises in 2019 is emerging, and Geek Time gradually responds to the needs of the enterprise side, helping enterprises to better cultivate digital talent capabilities, and launching the Geek Time Enterprise Edition. Now, the enterprise version is going to become a one-stop digital technology learning KaaS platform to promote the development of the digital talent industry.
Geek State hopes to dock more social resources, undertake more social obligations, help enterprises and society build a digital economy and digital society, and jointly realize digital China. We want to be able to continue to cross borders and get closer and closer to our customers, whose needs are our ultimate motivation.
Geekbang's KaaS platform provides one-stop learning services for "testing and evaluating" combined with job competency models:
Geek Time has precipitated multiple sets of digital technology job competency models through years of experience in serving technology practitioners, helping students to test and diagnose before learning, find weaknesses, and provide learning suggestions, match learning courses, and develop learning plans and learning paths accordingly.
On the enterprise side, this course configuration has a strong customization. In the process of working with enterprises, we have found that almost all enterprises urgently need to understand how to add new capabilities for different positions according to the requirements of digital transformation, and this new capability is the new talent growth path. After the growth path of new talents is matched with the curriculum, an effective learning method will be formed.
In the learning process, the learning time and learning completion of the students will be reflected through the platform, so that the enterprise can better understand the learning effect of employees. After the end of the study, the effectiveness of the learning method and the applicability of the course are verified by means of examination. Finally, according to the learning process of the students, the platform can generate a talent assessment report, and the improvement of the talent ability of the enterprise is displayed in the form of radar chart, helping the enterprise to better do the talent assessment and build a more effective talent operation mechanism.
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