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Sheryl Estrada

Creativity is as important as data literacy in the AI era, says IBM exec

Charu Mahajan, senior partner and VP of IBM Consulting APAC, speaks during a panel session at the Fortune Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Fortune)

Good morning. AI is reshaping jobs faster than workers can retrain for them.

“The skills we need in the AI age are fundamentally different from before,” said Charu Mahajan, senior partner and VP of IBM Consulting APAC, during a panel session moderated by Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn at the Fortune Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday.

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