How training freshers on IoT can help them with knowledge on improved connected business solutions 

It’s a small world they said when the telephone was introduced. Today, we have to call it - a connected world.   In the year 2023, reports revealed that there were over 12 billion devices connected to the internet. In the next couple of years (by 2025), the number of devices is expected to cross 27 billion, collectively generating about 73.1ZB of data.  

Improved insights stemming from the abundance of data is simplifying our lives and enterprise workflows, ultimately improving profits and productivity. As IoT integrates more into businesses, what will be enabled further are connected business solutions.  

From improving decision making and minimizing redundancy in everyday tasks to optimizing interoperability of systems and processes, connected business solutions will be a cultural revolution in the coming years.  

To ace this change, workforces of businesses, specifically fresher workforces need to be adept at IoT. So, if you’re an enterprise eyeing on enabling connected solutions, here are compelling reasons why your fresher workforce needs extensive IoT training.  

Develop Niche Competency 

The goal of every company is unique and the responsibility to deliver is on the workforce. When it comes to fresher workforce, there is a stark disconnect between what is taught academically or theoretically and what is required on the job. A tailored training program on IoT will equip your fresher workforce with the niche hands-on competencies your business requires to scale effectively. Such training programs delve deeper into topics and prepares fresher workforces to seamlessly become more deployable for refined requirements.  

Foster Problem-solving And Innovation 

Often, businesses and current talent pool work under a tunnel vision, staying oblivious to other possibilities of solving a concern. Freshers, with their Gen Z ideologies and approaches, bring in fresher perspectives to come up with use cases for an existing connected product or a service. Training them extensively on IoT and allied technologies will help bring in creative tangents into the system, acting as catalysts for focused innovation and development.  

Enable Flexibility and Scalability 

Implementations such as cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and IoT often require scalability in deployments as enterprises grow. And scalability could be a daunting task if your workforce isn’t prepared to handle the intricacies involved. Training your fresher workforce can ease of the burden from your current talent pool and simplify the scaling up process and stay agile in the process.  

Improve Security And Compliances 

Deploying a flawless IoT infrastructure is a sweet challenge. To ensure zero loopholes and vulnerabilities in systems, measures on IoT security have to be made more rigid and stringent. Processes like Zero Trust policies come really helpful in such situations. Having a knowledgeable fresher workforce becomes truly helpful in such conditions, where the nuances involved are well understood and acknowledged. When exposed to modules such as cybersecurity best practices, data and information protection, compliance mandates, and more, your fresher workforce and better ensure integrity of customer and in-house data.  

Apart from these, training your fresher talent pool on IoT can also help in developing a competency pipeline in your organization, which is beneficial in the longer run. This also helps reduce attrition and bring down costs involved in training new recruits in the future.  

Connected business solutions are all about delivering seamlessness, improving collaboration, and bringing in a holistic cultural change in terms of operations. With reports sharing that IoT implementations can increase efficiency by 12%, a skilled fresher workforce can help improve these numbers further.  

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The article has been written by Vinay Konanur, Vice President – Emerging Technologies, UNext Learning