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2/17/2025

Avasant consultant Akshay Khanna suggests going back to the basics

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00:00But I think GCC region, UAE and Saudi in particular,

00:05they have an opportunity to be the talent magnet.

00:07We see a lot of policy initiatives and push that is happening

00:10that can really drive that change.

00:13And then because of just the rapid change in the technology adoption,

00:17anyways, what skill that somebody has learned about 12, 18, 24 months ago,

00:21it's not really relevant.

00:22And you got to keep reskilling and upskilling yourself every 24, 36 months.

00:27So that cycle is really shortening.

00:29And I think that's going to happen.

00:31I want to take it on another level.

00:33The cycle is shortening.

00:35And you need to keep upskilling, et cetera.

00:38So what should children learn in schools and colleges?

00:42That's a great question.

00:43So I think my personal belief there is some things are not

00:47going to change ever.

00:48How do you take a particular technology solution

00:51and apply it to the problem solving?

00:53So the art of problem solving, the art of being

00:55creative and imaginative and using the tools that are at your disposal,

01:00I think that's the core skill.

01:02And I think if children can be taught, and I

01:04think their elders, parents can move them to that direction,

01:10I think those skills are going to be always in need.

01:14And they're always going to drive the innovation and the creativity forward.

01:17Because the tools, the tool sets that we have at our disposal

01:20are going to change.

01:22So for example, people used to learn programming.

01:25And you learn one language in programming.

01:27And then you learn the second and so on and so forth.

01:29But the basic construct is very similar in terms

01:31of how you structure a problem, how you solve for it.

01:33With chat GPT and generative AI and so on, the way we say it now

01:38is English is the new programming language.

01:41So you can write in English.

01:42So it's all about understanding the problem.

01:44What are we trying to solve?

01:45How can we solve it creatively?

01:47How can we think in an unconstrained environment?

01:49I think those are the skills, values, if they can learn, they'll be fine.

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