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Staying on Top of Technology Technology is rapidly changing all industries, reshaping the future of work. Foremost, companies must seek to understand how these changes will affect their industry, which requires constant reflection and learning. Companies will have to assess whether they are using the right technology tools, adopt transformative technologies, and change the way they hire and support employees to ensure qualified candidates get matched with the right opportunities and have clear pathways for career advancement. We asked Matt Adamczyk, Technologist in Residence for Microsoft at TitletownTech, how a business can know for sure that it is at the top of its game when it comes to technology and innovation.
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Fox Cities BUSiNESS I Winter 2019 I Cover Story
“These are big questions and Microsoft TechSpark is working with the local community to try to answer them,” he told us. For example, last year, TechSpark funded a survey of 104 local companies to study current and future technology needs, skills and talent for manufacturers in Northeast Wisconsin. One of the big takeaways was that in the next two-to-three years, manufacturers plan to focus the greatest investment in automation and robotics, cybersecurity and cloud computing. The survey also revealed that most of the companies surveyed don’t have an implementation plan in place to help them succeed in an economy increasingly driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and big data. Companies that can close that gap will set themselves up for success.
