The Best Educational/Training System is Key to Competing

[Arthur Hanson]

Now that knowledge in almost all fields, but especially technical ones has a rapidly shrinking half life, training and education systems and their implementation are the key to competing. Waiting for the ideal candidate is no longer an option, except for those that want to lose the game. Developing and transferring IP for its use are two totally different skill sets of equal importance. One is learning to develop a goal and developing a plan of attack for achieving it and the other is teaching its use to the personnel that need to know it and use it. The speed of change of not only the system, but the context that made it relevant in the first place necessitate a whole new out look on how to deal with these challenges. The old fashion system of spending years getting a degree and then years of learning to apply it no longer works economically, socially or time wise in a system that can render a whole set of knowledge useless and obsolete in far less time than it takes to train someone in the current system. It also doesn't allow for the number of fractions of knowledge increasing at an exponential rate due to the vast increase of resources that are now brought to bare on almost any challenge or goal. Education and training are going to a subscription model or a derivative of one whether the current system likes it or not. No longer can we afford the wasteful and inefficient training and educational systems we have that are primarily run for the benefit of those that created them. The change is coming and those that get in the way will become as relevant as the floppy disk drive or the auto that needed a tune up every twelve thousand miles. The speed of change has rendered the current system obsolete and the fortunes of the future are going to go to those that can develop and implement systems built to deal with a constantly increasing rate of acceleration of obsolescence and irrelevance. Models like SemiWiki are just one step towards a different future in education and training.

 

[clhende]

Arthur,

Agreed. For those interested, check out our Online Training System at semitracks.com. We're forging ahead into this world with a model that allows you to learn quickly about semiconductor manufacturing and product engineering topics you need on a daily basis.