John Hagel (Deloitte Center for the Edge) and John Seely Brown describe how companies need to work beyond themselves. One example is GE Appliances starting micro-factories with small groups of people across roles focused on a single run, project or customer need. This is is very much like the French gearbox manufacturer, FAVI, I talked about last week at Enterprise 2.0 Summit (and well documented in several books). In my presentation, there is a natural evolution of social collaboration beyond processes, to cross-employee cooperation, and finally to ecosystems beyond.

Their article in Fortune magazine.

“Rapid advances in technology have led to more volatile demand for products and services, sudden shifts in customer expectations, and an overall need to respond faster and more flexibly to a changing environment. Companies that go it alone will struggle to find the talent and resources they need to compete. Businesses will need to work with others, those outside their walls, to do this.

“Companies need to respond faster and more flexibly to a changing environment. They cannot do this alone.”

-rawn

The World Economic Forum Global Risks 2015 report will be announced tomorrow. If you’d like to listen in to the livestream, here it is.

In 2014, the high risks were Unemployment & underemployment (economic), Climate change & Water crises (environmental), and Cyberattacks (technological), with Income disparity (societal) close.

I would guess these haven’t changed too much, although Cyberattacks and Political instability may rate higher.

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Next week’s WEF Davos annual meeting is also livestreamed
WEF Global Risks 2015 report on Livestream
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Cross-posted from Facebook on January 14, 2015 at 03:20PM via IFTTT

Just had a great conversation with Wingham Rowan of Beyondjobs.com in the UK on the model of the future of work, finding work and workers for specific tasks and hours of time, that is goes beyond the usual matchmaking listing services of Angie’s List, Taskrabbit, and so on.

“We need to move to a world of selling spare hours. ”

It creates the possibilities for #multiployment. And not just for the high end skills market of consultants, lawyers, etc., but for the people who work in cafes, tend bars, do construction, do metalwork, and all the services industry in hyper-local markets in each town or city.

It is a compelling model for the Sharing or Collaborative Economy. But think beyond the companies like Sidecar, Lyft, Airbnb, into a more generic across the board system.

Jon Husband, Robert Pye, Jeremiah Owyang, Lance J Richards take note.

Here’s his TED talk describing the need for flexible work.

#workculture
Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market
“Plenty of people need jobs with very flexible hours — but it’s difficult for those people to connect with the employers who need them. Wingham Rowan is work…”

Cross-posted from Facebook on January 13, 2015 at 09:34AM via IFTTT

How European (and some Indo-european) languages evolved, an animated map.

“This animated map shows how European languages evolved.

– via Business Insider Video”

Cross-posted from Facebook on January 12, 2015 at 07:58PM via IFTTT