Category: The Future of Work

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TMWK Best Of 2013 1: Corporate Disorganizer

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This is the most viewed post of 2013: I Have Changed My Job Title To…Corporate Disorganizer.. It is an intriguing idea, one that has been woven through many posts on change management, organizational development, personal branding, career planning, and discussion on the future of work. I assume its popularity is due to its reference in many of these posts. Here’s to disorganizing some more in 2014! ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading TMWK Best Of 2013 1: Corporate Disorganizer

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TMWK Best Of 2013 4: #FutureOfWork

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This is an area of the blog I thought would be an afterthought, but has, in fact, become the central plank of the content here. I guess this showcases the practice of working out loud – as I learn, consider, question, I share. The top posts in this area include: 10 #WorkHacks To Prepare For ‘The Future Of Work’ What Does A Friend Look Like In The Age Of Social? The Future Of Work: Sponsor Disruption I wrote 117 posts under this topic in 2013. Find them here. ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading TMWK Best Of 2013 4: #FutureOfWork

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Change Agents Of The World Unite

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Let’s start at the end. Change Agents navigate the choppy waters and uneven terrain toward the future of work. They invite you along for the journey – as guides, as co-conspirators, and treasure seekers. They are in the vanguard. This puts them ahead of the pack. It means they are ready. It also makes them vulnerable. There are bruises, and battles, yet Change Agents still ask: How can I help? The currency of social business is a deep understanding of emergent themes and practices in culture, technology, organization design, and the impacts on, and motivations of, individuals. Change Agents are … Continue reading Change Agents Of The World Unite

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Large IT projects run 45% > budget; 7% > time; deliver 56% < value than predicted. Why?

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According to this McKinsey report for Boards, “On average, large IT projects run 45 percent over budget and 7 percent over time, while delivering 56 percent less value than predicted.” Yet, another McKinsey report I wrote about yesterday presaged the massive business changes that technology will impart in the next decade. Will all this new technology deliver 56% less value than predicted? Perhaps the issue with the current situation is that there is not enough focus on insights,  rather than technical efficiency. Or perhaps the technology projects are too focused on the technical gains, and not enough on the organizational change impacts of … Continue reading Large IT projects run 45% > budget; 7% > time; deliver 56% < value than predicted. Why?

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5 Technologies Driving Business Change

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McKinsey has some great data about enterprise impacts based on social technology. Their 10 IT-enabled business trends report from a few months ago has been on my mind, as it segues with several themes I muse about – the future of work; the social enterprise; personal branding amongst others. What organizations will our leaders – you – be leading in 5 years time? Let’s have a look-see at some of the trends. 1. Joining the social matrix Employees ‘could become up to 25 percent more productive through the use of social technologies.’ I have seen this in my own life … Continue reading 5 Technologies Driving Business Change

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Working Out Loud is Preposterous And Profound

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Today, it’s all about networks, something you were most likely not taught about in school. This means that most of our education is useless in understanding the world as it currently exists. Yes, useless. The always erudite and coherent Harold Jarche is in a straight-to-the-point mood in this article on the need for network fluency. Yes, we need to build fluency in how networks operate, and our very active role within them, as they usurp organizations and tribes as the most powerful force in our communities and workplaces. However, it is a single sentence within the article that got me … Continue reading Working Out Loud is Preposterous And Profound

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#FutureOfWork Words: Swarm, Weak, Sketch, Spontaneity, Patterns, Experiments, Hyper

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A fascinating analysis of the future of work over the next decade by Gartner analysts come my way. Read the article here, but I want to highlight two emergent themes. This near future will be full of shadow, a grey zone of uncertainty: work will be spontaneous; sketched, non-routine, in perpetual beta, following patterns and insights, and everywhere / anytime. Secondly, we will be constantly forming, storming, and norming our work networks: we will take advantage of weak links, swarm, move out into our ecosystem, hyperconnect. Are these words and ideas you can subscribe to? Can you grab on to … Continue reading #FutureOfWork Words: Swarm, Weak, Sketch, Spontaneity, Patterns, Experiments, Hyper

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#RelentlessHumanity: Take 3

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I am working out loud on this blog. This means the content and much of the thinking is a work in progress. The work is the learning, and the learning is the work, as Harold Jarche says. One concept I am trying to better articulate for myself is how to have better conversations about the connected enterprise, and the (social) technology that drives us towards the future of work. Currently, these conversations are too technocratic: which service does what, how cool every piece of tech is, how a vendor can deliver a perfect intranet of things, even. Wrong approach. Where … Continue reading #RelentlessHumanity: Take 3

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Hey, Disrupt Happens.

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Fortuitously, I have an insider’s view on business disruption as a member of the Change Agents Worldwide (CAWW) collective. It is a hivemind of the great and good of e2.0, social business mavens. How does CAWW go about its own business? With transparency and trust at its heart, with collaboration and cooperation as its cogs and wheels. It disrupts traditional, staid consultancy – all big names with bigger theories, yet bigger prices. Of course, consultants are the people articulating the changes in the enterprise and building out the solutions for the next iteration(s) of our organizations, so surely they are … Continue reading Hey, Disrupt Happens.

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Insight > Efficiency

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Following on from yesterday’s post on (traditional) organizational distaste for insight, I see correlation from a Nilofer Merchant post on twitter: https://twitter.com/nilofer/statuses/385479893997219841 Insight is game-changing. It is not about more of / less of the same. It is about a new beginning. ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading Insight > Efficiency

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Attitude > Talent. Ready For #TheFutureOfWork

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Yesterday, I wrote about the risk knowledge workers have to stay relevant in the face of computerisation. They must invest in new creative and social skills and move up the value chain where computers are yet to tread. What does this embrace of change and constant learning take? Is it talent? Well, talent ain’t no bad thing. But what really counts is attitude. An embrace of change and the opportunity it affords (which might be survival…) will get you far. As usual, Seth Godin has prescient advice: An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven … Continue reading Attitude > Talent. Ready For #TheFutureOfWork

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#FutureOfWork Attack! 35% Of Jobs Have 85% Chance Of Automation. Gulp.

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The always excellent Futurist Ross Dawson has more scary, inflammatory, call-to-action content for the average knowledge worker (that’s me, BTW.) His take on The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? report is high stim. Workers in job sectors that are at high risk to be replaced by computerisation, like services, sales, and office and administrative support, need to reallocate [their energy] to tasks that are non-susceptible to computerisation – i.e., tasks requiring creative and social intelligence. For workers to win the race, however, they will have to acquire creative and social skills.” 35% of such workers have an 85% … Continue reading #FutureOfWork Attack! 35% Of Jobs Have 85% Chance Of Automation. Gulp.