We’ve come a long way since Peter Drucker coined the phrase “knowledge worker” a half-century ago.

 

Drucker defined the knowledge worker as the key to a post-industrial economy, where knowledge trumped manual labor and value was derived from how a worker applied knowledge to daily tasks.

 

Knowledge workers now dominate most of the world’s economies. They differentiate themselves through their ability to understand context, to judge situations, and to deviate from established norms to create new solutions.

 

But the world has changed.  The next generation of the knowledge worker is the innovation worker, whose creativity, agility and commitment to continuous learning will drive future economic growth and lead to the next generation of ideas and inventions that shape our lives.

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The best engineers innovate on the job every day,

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Adapted from:

https://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/services/document/innovation-worker-jul-2015.pdf