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Last evening, Ed Gordon called, and we had an interesting conversation on a topic we both care deeply about: the future of our workforce.
Ed is the author of the 2010 Meltdown and Skill Wars. His new book is coming out in April. The title:Winning the Global Talent Showdown: How Businesses and Communities Can Partner to Rebuild the Jobs Pipeline.
Some months ago, Ed and I traveled through East Central Illinois on a series of regional forums that explored what communities could do to create new pathways for talent development. Ed's new book will outline what communities and regions are doing to form partnerships that cross both organizational and political boundaries.
We need these partnerships to accelerate innovation in education and workforce development and to integrate our talent development strategies with economic development.
These are not easy tasks. Next week I will be in Idaho working with the Governor's summit of workforce development. We will be applying some open source tools and frameworks to develop strategic action plans for six regions within the state. I will make some posts from a summit next week and let you know how it's going.
These types of summits are becoming more popular as business and education seek to find ways to collaborate. Here's an example of the summit from Corpus Christi, Texas. The challenge, of course, comes in translating ideas into action. Open source approaches to economic and workforce development are designed to address this chronic problem.
If you're curious about open source approaches to workforce development, you might be interested in the presentation available here.
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