Ireland invests €1m in centre to leverage fast-growing data analytics sector - Ireland’s business and technology news service. The Irish Government is making an initial €1m investment in a new Dublin technology centre in data analytics called CeADAR, the Centre for Applied Data Analytics Research, to leverage the high-growth area that is data analytics and the potential to create jobs.
An Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland initiative, the initial research phase of CeADAR will aim to make Ireland a world leader in data analytics, a sector that is growing 40pc annually worldwide and is a target for jobs growth as part of the ‘Disruptive Reforms’ in the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs 2013. Top-tier multinational and Irish ICT companies will lead the research agenda at the centre. Siri's Founder Dag Kittlaus Predicts The Next Big Things. The Robot Greeters, Cardless ATMs, And Touchscreen Transactions Are So Money At This Bank Of The Future. Banco Bradesco, one of Brazil's largest banks, just opened a branch in São Paulo's high-end JK Iguatemi Mall.
Bradesco's new branch, however, is no ordinary banking outlet. The São Paulo storefront will instead be a showcase for state-of-the-art banking technology that won't make it to North America or Europe for years. Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff. Compared to previous generations, Millennials seem to have some very different habits that have taken both established companies and small businesses by surprise.
One of these is that Generation Y doesn't seem to enjoy purchasing things. 'Generation Y' set to transform office life. Free running might not become an office staple, but greater flexibility and less lengthy meetings might become the norm.
An Interactive Infographic Maps The Future Of Emerging Technology. Can speculation about the future of technology serve as a measuring stick for what we create today?
That’s the idea behind Envisioning Technology's massive infographic (PDF), which maps the future of emerging technologies on a loose timeline between now and 2040. Click to enlarge. Fears over skills shortages in key science and language subjects - Latest News, Education. Katherine Donnelly – Updated 02 December 2012 12:37 PM And the situation is expected to get even worse from this year as teacher cuts force schools to consider dropping these key subjects.
As the boost to maths performance among this year's Leaving Certificate candidates was celebrated yesterday, the new concerns were highlighted. The 56,000 school-leavers receiving results yesterday included almost 11,000 awarded 25 bonus points for achieving a minimum D grade in maths at higher level. Top ten global skill shortages. Financial and budgetary, IT and green skills top the list of ten skills that Hays’ global offices and clients commonly identify as being in the greatest demand.
“Talent shortages are a global problem,” said Charles Logan, Director at Hays. “We operate in 32 countries and these skills are the ones that our clients globally say are in most demand. For anyone considering their career options in our globalised economy, these are the skills to focus on. “Our list is broken down by “soft” and “hard” (job-specific) skills and it shows there is a common global perception that candidates do not have a sufficient standard of soft skills. In terms of hard skills, current economic circumstances and long-term demographic trends are driving demand.” Hays’ top ten global skills shortage list is: Soft skills• Languages: A common theme among sectors and countries is the need for additional language skills.
BUSINESS WORLD - Worldwide skills shortage continues. Tuesday, May 29 07:51:37 The United States and other large economies cannot find enough skilled workers, engineers and other in-demand employees, according to an annual study on talent shortages.
The study, by staffing services giant ManpowerGroup, found 34 percent of employers around the world report trouble filling jobs because of a lack of available talent. Global Skills Shortages. VCs' next big things: Big data, drugs, and education. The Singularity Is Near. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology is a 2005 non-fiction book about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil.
This is his first book to embrace the Singularity as a term, but the ideas contained within are derived from his previous books, the The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) and The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990). Kurzweil describes his law of accelerating returns which predicts an exponential increase in technologies like computers, genetics, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence. 57% of people will be working remotely this summer. By Daniel Hunter, Fresh Business Thinking Survey results released from Telligent, the leading enterprise collaboration and community software company, find that 74% of UK employees say a social collaboration platform would be valuable for using in workplace communications.
However, 79% of workplaces do not provide such tools, based on a survey of 1,000 UK employees, conducted by Redshift Research. The survey found that 62% of employees report regularly working with team members remotely or in different locations. Today’s availability of wireless Internet and Internet-enabled mobile devices has helped transform people’s work lives into a new, dynamic, 24/7, ‘work anywhere’ culture.