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I found myself reminiscing tonight, after sharing an email with Jim Ware, co-founder of the Future of Work community and the Future of Work blog, about the possibility of meeting when he is here in Vancouver this week to do a couple of presentations about the book he co-authored, Corporate Agility.
I say reminiscing because we obviously share some long-held interest and probably hold some similar perspectives about the principles underpinning our thinking.
I have been thinking, writing and speaking about the future of work for at least 15 years, and practicing as a mainstream organizational consultant with Hay Management Consultants for 10 years prior to that. The name of my consulting practice from 1995 through to 2001 was Work Design Associates (then I switched it to Wirearchy and the work dropped off, as people weren’t ready for thinking too hard about how the web would impact the knowledge workplace, 911 happened, etc.) … Jim’s current consulting practice is the Work Design Collaborative.
I combined knowledge of the "hard" aspects of the workplace … compensation philosophy, strategy and practices, performance management, competency analysis, profiling and modeling and core talent management practices, with the main "soft" aspects … learning, organizational development, and coaching.
Here’s a presentation I delivered several times in 2001 (BCHRMA Annual Conference, World At Work 2001) about the future of work in an increasingly digital-and-networked world. It’s not pretty graphically, but I think the ideas still stand up and are pertinent today. Indeed, I’d argue that we are seeing many elements of this forecasted future unfold in front of us now.
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Tags: Future of work, wirearchy
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