Mastering a skill is a powerful thing.
Companies that win, people who excel, and markets that grow continue to be defined by making the most of modern skills.
Yet only 5% of business leaders strongly agree they’re investing enough in helping people learn new skills to keep up with the changing world of work.
We see technology transforming science with computational biology. We see generative AI finally getting driverless cars to the next level, and data changing even simple things—like how each of us summarizes the next long email.
Change is everywhere. And people everywhere are struggling to keep up. But sometimes, we forget just how novel the speed of change is today.
The world wasn’t always this way.
Civilization is about 6,000 years old. And for context, it took about 5,700 years to get the first mass-produced textbook. That’s the beginning of the modern skill-building era.
For about 300 years after the first mass-produced textbook, the way people developed skills didn’t really change. When my parents wanted to get ready for their careers, they boarded trains and traveled to build skills at centers of learning. The pace of change was slow, so it was okay that the tools they had were limited.
Today, a new story is emerging.
We operate in a world where expertise is everywhere. It’s not just at schools or workplaces. It’s captured on YouTube, on podcasts, and in chat threads.
All anyone today needs to do is formulate a question. In turn, the internet delivers resources needed to develop a skill.
But the unbelievable thing is that—after 20 years of revolution in how knowledge and skills are developed—everything in learning is changing again. With gains in artificial intelligence, for the first time we can imagine putting the world’s greatest tutor in the pocket of every learner. We couple nearly infinite content with nearly infinite opportunities for personalization.
For every industry, for every corporation, and for every individual, the possibilities are seemingly endless.
People need new skills for a new era.
In today’s world, a research scientist needs to know Python as much as they need to know lab research methods. A marketing professional needs the skills to prompt a generative AI system to test new ideas.
Leaders need to be able to understand and interpret data with the same savviness of skill that they built in subjects like communications.
The exciting news is that the tools we can deploy to build skills are improving at an even faster rate than the pace of change.
Degreed exists because the world is changing fast.
Unfortunately, even today, most learning software remains inflexible, optimized to check the box on learning requirements. When Degreed was founded, our team built the only learning platform designed to drive workforce transformation, not workforce requirements. We’ve delivered this all on one consistent platform—one data model, one integration layer, and one world class experience.
But our work isn’t done. The world is moving faster than ever.
Our aspiration is to make it simpler, faster, and more delightful for Degreed to help you—as Ericsson CLO Vidya Krishnan says—turn the talent you have into the talent you need.
At the core of it all is our platform. We believe that to deliver transformation, every company needs to be able to pinpoint needs, personalize development, and measure change.
That’s precisely what Degreed is designed to do.
Degreed skills technology is built to create an actionable view on your organization’s needs and pinpoint development opportunities for each learner.
Like with our approach to content, we don’t believe that any one technique or skill technology will rule them all.
Degreed meets people where they are.
It’s our job to synthesize skill data from a variety of vendors, drive inference from across your environments, and synchronize all that information with the systems that matter most in your landscape. From there you can change your workflows with confidence.
The byproduct of pinpointing your needs through data is that Degreed serves the right learning to the right learner at the right time. This has been core to our business since Day One.
To drive the most engagement with development opportunities, we’ve always helped you meet your learners where they are. We deliver Degreed across the web, on Android and iOS, through browser extensions, in Slack, and on Microsoft Teams.
And now, we’re excited to extend our chat capabilities, to support learners in other copilots and chatbots.
But the data we have also confirms that not all skill building can happen in a chat thread or across a three-minute video. Our platform was designed to recognize and accommodate that. It’s why we deliver deep skill building experiences in the form of Degreed Academies.
Flexibility to deliver programs across the short, medium, and long arcs of learning gives you the best opportunity to transform quickly.
Degreed powers better learning with AI.
No conversation about personalized development would be complete without AI.
Our investments into Degreed Automations and a refreshed user experience lay the foundation for everything that’s to come in an AI-first world.
And we couldn’t be more excited to use new technologies to deliver the most personalized learning you can imagine. Imagine it – AI agents tuned for every learning experience. For starters, check out Degreed Maestro.
For the first time in history, AI makes it possible to teach to each individual, at an infinite scale.
We’ve started to show the possibilities through the launch of our very public Degreed Experiments. Thousands of you have already engaged. And the energy is only building.
Degreed helps skill data noise make sense.
The story of Degreed wouldn’t be complete without one more pillar.
Learning has always suffered from a lack of measurable ROI.
This gap is why countries and cultures spend magnitudes more money educating young before they reach the workforce than afterward. And this is true even in the face of longer life expectancies, changing employment models, and technical skills that come and go faster than ever.
With analytics, badging, integration into data warehouses, and a slew of new benchmarking capabilities, Degreed is bringing the tools your team needs to demonstrate learning ROI.
Degreed helps you understand what to focus on, deliver the learning experiences to address those needs, and now gives you the capability to not only measure activity, but to also see the impact.
So far, the feedback from customers using our new benchmarking and learning analytics capabilities has been phenomenal. I’d encourage everyone to try them out.
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Together, let’s pinpoint needs, personalize development, and measure change. Let’s make transformation possible. Let’s build opportunities for every learner and drive success for your organization.
If your appetite for innovation is growing, then good news! You can watch Degreed Vision 2024 on demand. You’ll see Degreed product demos and prototypes, hear real-world client stories, and get a firsthand look at some of our recent AI experiments.
Let’s chat more about how Degreed can help you know, learn, and grow the skills your business needs. Get a Degreed demo.
