Thoughts of 2012 amidst jingle bells......

Less than 10 days left to welcome 2013! While the jingle bells of the festive season all around are chiming best wishes to each other, it is worth taking a pause and think how the future decade, I may be wrong, next five years will look like.

The future with digitally connected society will definitely create an invigorating, exhilarating humanity that will find new way of doing things and new things to do what we have not done before. This technology driven future with all the applications of technology inventions all around us, education, healthcare, manufacturing, communication, government, will be disruptive to the way we have created our brick and mortar organizations. It will give a new look to the meaning and purpose of our work. We no longer will be judged by when do we come to office, what do we do in our daily routines, what hierarchy we fall into, what titles we do hold. Rather people will be measured by the outcomes and technology will enable this measurement.

As we will be more and more outcome focused, people will demand their flexibility in making their decisions on when and where to work. They will decide whom to collaborate in the industry to get the best results excelling expected outcomes. They will have their own network to get the job done instead of depending on command and control hierarchy. They will decide which technology is the best one for them, what makes their working easier, faster, better and smarter. They will bring their own devices and organizations need to find a way to integrate them without impacting security, authority and privacy. Maybe organizations themselves become virtual i.e. a digital platform rather a brick and mortar one with a street address.

There will be mayhem in losing conventional jobs and traditional supervisory roles, but there will be a torrent of opportunities in form of new skills, roles and jobs. The organizations which will embrace the changes in terms of structure, process and culture earlier will have sinew to be the winners of future global market place and rest may be put to rest.