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Kevin Coleman Subject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - Insights Pa, United States
Recently while delivering a keynote address on emerging technologies an interesting and timely question came for the audience during the Q& A period. I thought I would put that question to this highly diverse forum.

Given the degree of change driven by technological advancement and new and emerging technologies, is it possible to keep up give our current workload and personal responsibilities?

What do you think?
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Hi Kevin, Can you please ellaborate more on your question ... I didnt get the second part of it.
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Kevin Coleman Subject Matter Expert, Author, Speaker and Strategic Advisor| - Insights Pa, United States
@ Rami try this - With all the new technology coming into our lives (Business and Personal) do professionals have the ability to keep up with this magnitude of change given the high demand they already have on their time?
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1 reply by Anupam
Sep 11, 2016 11:53 AM
Anupam
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It may take a while to cope up. But not overnight.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
A few years ago I came to the conclusion that to keep up with all new technologies was near impossible.
So a choose to keep up with a more limited rage of technologies those that where more closely related to me (work or personal). Even that is starting to get difficult!
load of new stuff in Project management, Agile, Risk, Communication HR..., and tools related to business or project management not to talk about stuff that interest me on a more personal side like Home automation, health food.....
Each give you load of new information or emerging technologies, methods...

Hope it is what you where asking for.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Thanks Kevin. This is a good question and my answer would be that PM should be able to cope with all the technology changes if it serves their projects.
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Anupam India
Sep 10, 2016 11:41 AM
Replying to Kevin Coleman
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@ Rami try this - With all the new technology coming into our lives (Business and Personal) do professionals have the ability to keep up with this magnitude of change given the high demand they already have on their time?
It may take a while to cope up. But not overnight.
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Dominic Law Product Manager| PCCW Global Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Well,40 years ago no one would imagine today everyone would need at least a computer on his/her desk. 30 years ago, "What is email"? 20 years ago, "What is smartphone?" And if I said I had no time to learn to use email, I would have been extinct in the business world.
And unfortunately, change happens and will continue to happen!
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Justin Wortley Project Manager| Quicken Loans Detroit, Mi, United States
I think that in the post-internet (and even current-cloud) age the learning curve for new technologies in the Project Management space has leveled off a bit. From a on-boarding perspective a lot of the new packages out there end up *doing* the same things, but might take different approaches to doing them. I feel that if you can capture the "big ideas" early of where emerging technologies are heading then it's not as daunting of a task to dig in with them when they become mainstream. Ironically, that's a lot of what being a PM can be about - surrounding yourself with the talent/SME's that can deep dive into new technology so that you only have to handle the higher level points to make decisions/make your role more efficient and effective.
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Cris Casey Managing Director| Exertus, Inc.
I agree with Dominic and Justin. I would add that coping with change in technology requires the ability to be selective and not allow yourself to be whipsawed by new products/services that are in search of a market.

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