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This chapter builds a novel narrative around the shift towards rapid reskilling, digital learning, connectivism and exponentiality that will enable organisations to match the scale and growth we see in technology and to embrace the increasingly rapid pace of change. For organisations to reinvent themselves into the Fourth Industrial Revolution fit organisations, they need to focus on becoming self-driven, agile, data-driven, learning organisations, or what we refer to as the SADL organisation. The SADL requires a new breed of organisation, new breed of worker and new breed of learner in order to create thriving organisational cultures. The chapter elaborates on the key shifts and competencies needed by organisations, workers and learners for facilitating conditions for individual and collective thriving in intelligent technology contexts. An Industry 4.0 competency framework is explored. The framework elucidates the link between humans and the digital world and the personal transformation required by humans.
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Kohl, K., Swartz, J. (2019). Building Industry 4.0 Talent. In: Coetzee, M. (eds) Thriving in Digital Workspaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24463-7_2
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