{"id":23610,"date":"2016-11-08T12:48:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/?p=23610"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:51:25","slug":"adam-froman-shares-10-tips-pursuing-career-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/adam-froman-shares-10-tips-pursuing-career-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Froman shares 10 tips on pursuing a career in the digital economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0263.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23612 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0263-e1478626698771-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"img_0263\" width=\"238\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0263-e1478626698771-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0263-e1478626698771-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Every year, the Graduate Business Council (GBC) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/schulich.yorku.ca\">Schulich School of Business<\/a> holds a conference to bring together MBA students and alumni, who share their knowledge and experience to guide and inspire the future grads.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, our CEO Adam Froman was invited to be the keynote speaker at Insights 2016, the GBC\u2019s 10<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Conference, which focused on the theme Wisdom Imparted, Knowledge Acquired.<\/p>\n<p>With the constantly changing business landscape, the conference aims to provide students with access to speakers who will let them know how to best prepare themselves to get into their respective industries and how to navigate the industry challenges that lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p>During his presentation, Adam shared his perspective on the current digital economy and talked about how the market has changed since he founded Delvinia in 1998. He also shared his thoughts on the opportunities for MBAs, particularly around innovation and commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of Adam\u2019s presentation focused on 10 pieces of advice for anyone considering pursuing a career in the digital industry. Here are his 10 tips:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Anything digital is a great career<\/li>\n<li>Stay away from poorly funded startups<\/li>\n<li>Scale-ups are where the best jobs are<\/li>\n<li>Data analytics has huge opportunity<\/li>\n<li>AI is still experimental but emerging quickly<\/li>\n<li>Fintech offers the best banking opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Automation has expanded beyond marketing<\/li>\n<li>Commercialization of Innovation is key<\/li>\n<li>Understand the culture of the company<\/li>\n<li>Canada is where the best jobs are<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For more about Adam\u2019s experience in growing a business and being an entrepreneur in Canada, download his eBook <a href=\"\/delve-in-dig-deep\/\"><em><em>Delve In, Dig Deep: An Entrepreneurial Journey<\/em><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the Graduate Business Council (GBC) at the Schulich School of Business holds a conference to bring together MBA students and alumni, who share their knowledge and experience to guide and inspire the future grads. Last week, our CEO Adam Froman was invited to be the keynote speaker at Insights 2016, the GBC\u2019s 10th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":23612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,70],"tags":[861,76,862,860,859,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27218,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions\/27218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delvinia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}