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A summary table defining the workplace of the future

Charlie Bess| February 27, 2013
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workplace.pngI am giving a presentation to a large manufacturing organization next week and was thinking about how to pull many of the ideas that were some of the recent blog posts dealing with workplace technology shifts,  workplace trends and preparing for the future workplace.  These tables help describe it: 

Who: The Workforce

  • Multi-generational
  • Culturally heterogeneous
  • Transient/dynamic
  • Mobile
  • Empowered
  • Geographically diverse
  • Automation/agent enabled
  • Merged work & private lives
  • Environmentally savvy

How: Work Styles

 

  • Highly collaborative
  • Agile
  • Mobile
  • Tools go with the person
  • Merged work & private lives
  • Knowledge aware
  • Outcomes not hours based
  • Socially enabled
  • Gamified

 

What: Technology

  • BYOD
  • Wireless and mobile
  • End of the desktop
  • Head displays
  • Sensing enabled
  • Cloud-based
  • Personal tech ecosystem
  • Smart devices
  • Ubiquitous bandwidth
  • Highly sustainable
  • Context aware
  • Attention engineered
  • 3D holographic video-conferencing, avatars

Where: The Workplace

  • Fit to purpose
  • Highly-collaborative
  • Technology integrated environment
  • Secure
  • Hoteling/dynamic
  • Flexible
  • Work-shifting
  • Personalized

 What concepts did I leave out?

Tags: 3D| Agility| automation| BYOD| cloud computing| View All (11)
Labels: 3D| Agility| automation| BYOD| cloud computing| Context| Displays| Infrastructure | Mobile| Sensing| Sustainability
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| ‎03-04-2013 08:26 PM
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Another workplace of the future post by Marleen Devondel, HP ES ITO Product Marketing

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| ‎03-04-2013 08:32 PM
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Here are a series of externally written papers about the workplace of the future.

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