The Skills Europe Needs 2020

During the last ten years thousands of EU internal market, industry and competitiveness experts have analysed both leadership, professional and vocational skills needed to reskill, upskill, train, educate and impact positively on European wide competitiveness. These studies have every time come to same conclusion that the 10 most in-demand soft and hard skills for EU and Europe are:

You can read more about the over 50 years old and still ongoing software crisis impacting European economy in "Europe in software crisis". It is sad to see that policy makers, policy foresigth and policy planning is NOT able identify that service economy is actually #software economy. Services economy without own European #software is actually outsourcing understanding, works, jobs, skills, competencies, know-how, innovation, industries, cluster, economy and society in the end. From mind 80's on #software (SW) has taken over the role of harware (HW) as strategic technology and industrial development driver in the the information age (Breznits and Zyzman, 2013) in "The Third Globalization: Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich In The Twenty-First Century?"

"All digital services and platforms are 110% fabricated software." prof. Zysman

Your software economy and competitiviness evangelist,

Mika

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