The New Making It. Before a Robot Takes Your Job, You’ll Be Working Side By Side. The Top Jobs In 10 Years Might Not Be What You Expect. For decades, the U.S.
Bureau of Labor’s Economic and Employment Projections have been the bellwether for predicting what the hottest jobs up to a decade out would be. But with the rapid pace of technological change disrupting industries faster than ever before (think: robotics, 3-D printing, the sharing economy), it’s becoming obvious to many futurists that past trends may no longer be a reliable indicator of future job prospects. “In the last two centuries, we’ve seen two significant shifts in the global labor market,” says Graeme Codrington, futurist at TomorrowToday Global. Espousing-equality-but-embracing-a-hierarchy.html?_r=0&utm_content=bufferb6e3c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. IBM just bought Watson a whole closet full of personalities. Watson is about to get friendlier.
More specifically, Big Blue has purchased Australia-based Cognea for its “depth of personality” technologies. Is Collaboration Limited by Organizational Structure? We've been seeking enterprise 2.0 and social business for several years now with some notable success, but still quite a lot of “vague” and some level of fatigue.
We have found some easy fixes (employee social streams), and discovered devilishly difficult challenges (aligned and coordinated, but still autonomous action and decision-making, or convincing boards of directors that sometimes employees and customers need to precede shareholder value). The recent announcement by Zappos that it was changing its organizational structure to a “holacracy” suggests that forward-thinking companies are taking it all very seriously.
The Last Re-Org You’ll Ever Do. Here’s the problem.
The design of an organization with 10,000 people in it is an insurmountable intellectual puzzle. Whatever your mental model of the organization might be, it’s too simplistic. No human, and no current machine, can handle the complexity. A Company Without Job Titles Will Still Have Hierarchies - Harrison Monarth. By Harrison Monarth | 1:00 PM January 28, 2014 Radically flat.
Self-Driving Cars Get Smaller Brains. Carmaker Audi showed off a book-sized circuit board capable of driving a car on Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Audi claims the computer, called zFAS, represents a significant advance in automation technology because it is compact enough to fit into existing vehicles without compromising design. Several different Audi vehicles equipped with zFAS drove themselves onto the stage during the presentation, and a new concept car designed to showcase it was also introduced. Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy. Zappos is known for its zany corporate culture.
The company’s Q4 “All Hands” meeting in November was aptly-themed “Gone Wild”: one female employee voluntarily climbed into a case filled with tarantulas to win a $250 gift card. The event opened with a Lion King performance put on by employees at the Smith Center in downtown Las Vegas and closed with an after party at the museum next door. Focusing on company culture and customer service is how CEO Tony Hsieh built Zappos into a billion-dollar online retailer. While he’s not getting rid of those priorities, Hsieh is laying the groundwork for a major reorganization. Thinking for the Future. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 75 Key Insights from The Work Revolution Summit. By 2030 over 50% of Colleges will Collapse. In 1791 when Mozart died, his 29-year-old wife, Constanze Weber, was forced to earn a living, so she began selling her late husband’s manuscripts and turned the former messy paper scraps lying around the house into a tidy income stream.
Lucky for her, she lived after Gutenberg’s printing revolution had begun in Europe allowing her to leverage the power of rapid reproducibility. Over time, the music industry has figured out many different formats for reproducing music, moving from sheet music, to Edison’s cylinder phonograph, to vinyl records, to 8-track tapes, and eventually to downloadable digital recordings. What will CRM look like over the next 5 years? Software Advice Interview Highlights. Untitled. Connections, Channels, and Collaboration: New Imperatives for Today’s CIO. This post is on behalf of the CIO Collaboration Network and Avaya This week, I was reminded of an interesting stat that frames the current era in an interesting way.
“More people own mobile phones than toothbrushes” – Bill McDermott, SAP CEO— Brian Vellmure (@BrianVellmure) May 14, 2012 We are indeed on a steady march towards global connectedness. A Heroic Story – and a Powerful Social Business Metaphor. In the early morning of September 11, 2001, I was driving through downtown Los Angeles, shocked at what I was hearing on the radio, and awestruck by the police and military helicopters circling and protectively watching over the City of Angels skyline.
Projects Are the New Job Interviews - Michael Schrage. By Michael Schrage | 1:12 PM May 10, 2012. Your organization 8 years from now. Your organization 8 years from now. Wayne Gretzky is by most accounts the greatest hockey player ever. His father gave him a piece of advice that has been almost immortalized in business circles over the past several years. Brian Vellmure - Google+ - How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information… This is a very interesting post by +Maria Popova Thanks +John Hagel "...So if information discovery plays such a central role in how we fuel our creativity and thus in our creative output, then information discovery is a form of creative labor in and of itself. And yet our current code of ethics for respecting and crediting this kind of labor is completely inadequate. We have clearly defined systems for what’s right or wrong in terms of crediting creative products across text, image, video, and different media, from image rights to literary citations.
The Next Transitions in the Technium. The IBM 5 in 5: Our Forecast of Five Innovations That Will Alter the Tech Landscape Within Five Years. 12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead. The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity, Reputation. There has been much speculation recently about the role Facebook Credits could play in becoming a global virtual currency, and even the possibility of Facebook becoming a bank.
In many ways, it already is becoming a bank – just not in the traditional sense. How governments research and communicate about the future. What is the relationship between CRM, social, mobile, cloud, and "big data"? Generatives. 4 Trends Shaping the Emerging “Superfluid” Economy. Image by ericaglasier.com @EricaGlasier Humanity and technology continue to co-evolve at an ever increasing pace, leaving traditional institutions (and mindsets) calcified and out of date. Three New Required Roles for your company: (#2) Social Anthropologist. In the first post of this series, we talked about listening for what people are saying about you, your brand, your market, your products and services, or market needs that your organization has an answer for.
The Meaning Organization. Funds Research at MIT Center for Digital Business on Emerging Social Workplace - Jun 7, 2011. The Emerging Mobile Enterprise Divide. A panel I sat on at the GigaOM Mobile Enterprise Summit a few weeks ago got me thinking a lot about how mobility is taking shape in the enterprise. The Future of Work: What It Means for Individuals, Businesses, Markets and Governments.