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PwC’s New Digital Skills Course Will Teach Employees about Blockchain
“Big four” auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is launching training programs to employees on blockchain and other nascent technologies.

The two-year digital skills course, dubbed “Digital Accelerators” and said to begin in January, will train 1,000 employees on everything from drones, blockchain, and cleansing data to 3D printing, a news report from tech publication Digiday says.

The intermediate-to-advanced skill building courses is aimed to enhance PwC employees’ digital skills as well as cut costs for clients, thus boosting internal blockchain expertise, the report added. According to Sarah McEneaney, digital talent leader at PwC and head of the program, PwC clients expect things more digitally in order to control the cost.

McEneaney added:

“My job is to future proof our workforce. It just seems table stakes at this point that people should have more technology skills. It’s needed for us to remain competitive and to be responsive for what our clients are also going through.”

Every participating employee is required to spend 10 hours per week in Digital Accelerator courses irrespective of their past responsibilities. The curriculum consists of three basic key areas with data and analytics including blockchain at the initial level, drones, augmented reality, and cybersecurity at intermediate level, followed by AI and machine learning.
https://www.ccn.com/pwcs-new-digital-skills-course-will-teach-employees-about-blockchain/

it's always good to see more and more companies working towards adoption blockchain technology in general! it's a good sign for the future, but there's not any information on why they're wanting to work with blockchain more? as in, what are they hoping to achieve in the nearby future with it? would be interesting to hear

Althouh bitcoin is popular currency, It need more and more publicity and training process to make more profit. This Digital skill course offering for newcommers as well as who are interested. So i think it will have a goof effect on Bitcoin trading.

It is not just PwC, even my ex employer Ernst & Young LLP has incorporated the same. They have started offering blockchain training to their Information Security team and product development team. They also have a very nice report published about blockchain technology and its use cases. See the report link below,

https://www.ey.com/gl/en/industries/financial-services/banking---capital-markets/ey-implementing-blockchains-and-distributed-infrastructure

I heard about the Boston consulting group doing the same! Because these big consulting firms understand the potential of blockchain technology and believes that it certainly can change the world for better, so they are keeping their workforce ready for the future!

That’s a very good news. This type of training program is really needed because many users enter the crypto world without having any basic idea about it. So, this training will help the newbies to get proper guideline before investing in crypto.

As far as I know PwC is a one of the biggest companies in the world for accounting and consulting and has a partnership with VeChain. Another great news for the whole cryptoworld.

That's an interesting post. Pricewaterhousecoopers is a multinational service network which is known for consulting marketers for growing their digital initiatives and in-house team. They will soon be launching a 2 year training program for increasing the skills of their employees. This will increase the blockchain expertise in the company.

It is highly fantastic seeing big company and many more coming into crypto currency. This is making me now to believe a saying that crypto is the future of world economy. Seeing big accounting firm venturing into blockchain, it is a form of relief for the present users. nothing to scare about.

This is really an impressive initiative. I think this will really add value to the market and the market will be more professional. It is very good to see that different type of initiative and creative ideas are coming to the market. This course will created informed participants in the market.

This is a good sign that the companies are being so accepting and welcoming towards the blockchain technology. But the purpose of it is very unclear, as to why they wish to be associated with the blockchain technology.

Would be funny if PwC employees are going to be shilled shitcoins now through courses like this. I just don't believe anything that has to do with big banking institutions doing a big job. They will probably spend too much time researching altcoin bullshit and not enough researching bitcoin. They may even be told that there is value outside bitcoin and other scammy claims. I wouldn't have a lot of hope for any of this.

Such types of courses are really needed in this market as this will help to have knowledgeable people in the market. This also indicates that in future the market will get informed investors and this will make the market more disciplined.

Very good news, this will really add to the market value. and the market will be more professional

wow! It.s a good news.By the pace of time with bitcoin's popularity many company are associating to spread bitcoin among general level. This news is the light of hope to newcommers and new traders.

It’s a very positive thing that more companies are wanting to work in the blockchain technologoy.But there is not enough information given that why they want to work in blockchain.More information would help to know about the whole project.

that's a great news. this news proves how much blockchain technology become popular day by day. this technology earn people's  trust that is positive part.

blockchain is one of latest and safest technology. now a days this technology is use not only in crypto market but also many different companies are willing to use this technology.

This is a great initiative! I think these courses will convince people that bitcoin is good, because most people do not understand it now.

It’s a great initiative. More and more platform will join this platform and they learn people about the crypto community. Digital platform tech their employee because they found the potentially of blockchain near future.

This is a good news.More and more companies are working together for blockchain technology.It will increase hope for the newcommers in this market.I also think that to understand bitcoin clearly, one must know more and details about blockchain technology.It's s positive for new investors.

It always great to see that now a days more and more company are approach positively toward crypto. Its one of the very good sing for future time. Through this technology people will learn many thing about crypto community.

It always great to see that now a days more and more company are approach positively toward crypto. Its one of the very good sing for future time. Through this technology people will learn many thing about crypto community.

They're apparently pretty friendly towards Bitcoin:

• They acknowedge that cryptocurrencies carry groundbreaking potential. (https://99bitcoins.com/pwc-report-cryptocurrencies-carry-groundbreaking-potential/)
• They started accepting Bitcoin for their services. (https://www.wsj.com/articles/pricewaterhousecoopers-accepts-fee-in-bitcoin-1512036992)

And of course, teaching employees about blockchain technology lets the knowledge and interest propagate onto their clients. I think it's pretty cool.