A podcast from the Infosys Knowledge Institute and Infosys Public Services exploring the people, partnerships and innovations shaping the future of work.
Designing for Every Constituent: WongDoody's Erica Schenk and Phil Golub on Public Sector Design
Erica Schenk and Phil Golub of WongDoody make the case that accessible, human-centered design isn't a nice-to-have in government work. It's the difference between a solution that gets adopted and one that gathers dust.
Building a National Microelectronics Workforce: Shari Liss on the CHIPS-Era Crunch
Shari Liss of SEMI makes the case that the semiconductor industry's growth now hinges on people, with hundreds of thousands of new workers needed in the US alone. Her answer is to stop rebuilding regional programs in isolation and knit them into one national system that shares what works across the country.
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Norm or Policy: Susie Forbath on Building Public-Sector Software That Serves Everyone
Susie Forbath of Carina makes the case that building software for the public good and building it well are one discipline. As AI makes prototypes cheap to produce, the edge belongs to the people who know which problem to solve and will stand behind the answer.
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Don't Repeat Green Jobs: Eric Seleznow on Apprenticeship in the AI Moment
Eric Seleznow, the architect behind the Obama-era apprenticeship push, explains why apprenticeship still outperforms every other workforce strategy, and why the AI moment risks repeating the same mistake the green jobs boom made.
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Learn the Words: Abby McQuade on How Vendors Earn Government Trust
Abby McQuade of Infosys Public Services makes the case that the vendor-government relationship works as a partnership. The vendors who lose the room are the ones who arrive with a finished product and a story about the problems it solves.
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Boom, Bust, Rebuild: Harvard’s Rachel Lipson on Frontier Jobs
Rachel Lipson of Harvard's Project on Workforce makes the case that America has trained workers for the jobs we already have, while the fastest-growing industries are inventing roles nobody has trained for yet.
