Workforce development challenges are complex, messy and invisible. We cannot "see" these systems.
If we are to make significant improvement in the productivity of our workforce systems, we will need to use new visual tools. This presentation explores this argument.
1. Policy, Research, Data:
VIsualizing Our Future
Workforce Challenges
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Ed Morrison
Purdue Center for Regional Development
EMSI Annual Conference
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
October 15, 2013
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Network
Advocate
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Learn
Together
Innovate
Together
Trust
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Time
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24. IT STARTS HERE
Thinking Differently
Behaving Differently
Doing Differently
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27. There’s lots to talk about
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The Purdue Center for Regional Development incubates these network based models. edmorrison@purdue.edu
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30. We need new ways to
visualize pathways
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31. IT STARTS HERE
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Behaving Differently
Doing Differently
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