“Gearing Up for the Cloud: AT&T Tells It’s Workers: Adapt, or Else”
For large companies who have to compete in the world of disruption: employees are being told that they must adapt. But how?
“There is a need to retool yourself, and you should not expect to stop,” said Randall Stephenson, the chief and chairman of AT&T.
AT&T’s competitors are not just Verizon, Sprint, and other phone and cell companies. AT&T must now compete with tech giants like Amazon and Google. They are now offering cell phone products and bandwidth. Google offers high speed internet in many cities.
AT&T CEO believes the need for competitiveness and even survival is the driver to retrain its 280,000 employees. How? One important skill is to improve their coding skills. Why? According to the NY Times, employees must now “make quick business decisions based on a fire hose of data coming into the company.”