Advances in AI, cloud, and other emerging technologies are empowering organizations to pursue new opportunities for growth and innovation. Read on to learn how skill building with Microsoft Learn is a critical element of your AI transformation strategy.
AI’s ubiquity across organizations means that business and technology leaders like you need to approach AI skill building in a different way. We know that you’re not only facing the challenge of keeping up with the rapid pace of technology, but you’re also grappling with a shortage of skilled workers.
It’s clear there is a pressing need for AI skilling. To help address the skills gap, this past year, Microsoft engaged more than 6 million people globally in learning activities with ambitions to skill everyone to use our AI technology.
Today, it’s more important than ever to have the right skills so you can accelerate AI implementation at scale. While Microsoft’s AI apps and services empower you to innovate and accomplish more than you thought possible, we recognize it can be challenging to know where to begin.
We’re on this journey at Microsoft as well. We’re customer zero of our own products, exploring how to use AI to drive growth, unlock efficiency, and reduce operating costs. As we upskill ourselves in AI and understand how we can best use it in our day-to-day, we’re also exploring how to leverage AI to improve the learning experiences we offer.
Together with our customers and partners developing new AI skills, we’ve gathered key insights about what is necessary to nurture AI competency. We’ve designed a simple framework to help our customers chart their own course for building the necessary AI skills to realize the value of the Microsoft platform. Learn more with the Accelerate AI transformation with skill building position paper.
Each organization has its own unique AI learning journey. Your goals and needs, and those of your team members, may vary depending on how much you know about AI and how you want to use it. It’s your AI learning journey.
No matter where you are on your AI learning journey, Microsoft Learn meets you there. Whether you’re just beginning to understand what AI is and how it might be beneficial to your organization, or you’re ready to use Copilot and productivity-enhancing AI, or you’re looking to build bespoke AI-powered solutions, we can help you reach your goals.
By offering comprehensive curated resources, tools, and guidance, Microsoft Learn supports you and your team as you build the skills necessary to execute new AI innovation projects and achieve your business objectives.
Here are some learning tools and resources to explore.
Begin with the AI learning hub, the go-to resource. In this hub, business leaders, business users, and technology professionals can find everything they need to gain AI skills, in a single place. They can explore training by role or by technology, options to learn with the support of the community or Microsoft Training Services Partners, and recommendations from our team on new topics to deep dive into.
Take your team’s AI skills to the next level with Microsoft Credentials, which include Microsoft Certifications and Microsoft Applied Skills. Certifications offer the flexibility to grow the skills needed for critical roles, and Applied Skills offer the agility to expand the skills needed for key business scenarios. Together they bring verifiable skillsets aligned to AI job roles and AI projects, ensuring you’re building resilient and adaptable teams ready to take on new opportunities.
Explore Microsoft Credentials for AI and find role-based certifications like Azure AI Engineer or Azure Data Scientist, or scenario-based Applied Skills including developing generative AI solutions, training and deploying machine learning models, or creating analytics solutions with Microsoft Fabric.
However you’re looking to advance your organization, Microsoft Learn is the trusted source to help you get skilled up and ready to power AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud.
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