The Future of Work: Amplified Individuals, Jobs, & Organizations Andrea Saveri Institute for the Future [email_address] June 18, 2008

our roots Founded in 1968 Spin-off of the RAND Corporation Methodologies to forecast the future, applied to business, government, & non-profits Our founders: Paul Baran Olaf Helmer Jacques Vall é e

Founded in 1968

Spin-off of the RAND Corporation

Methodologies to forecast the future, applied to business, government, & non-profits

Our founders:

Paul Baran

Olaf Helmer

Jacques Vall é e

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seeking a Collective Intelligence Officer to oversee improvisational human resources for our company. Collective Intelligence Officer

seeking a Collective Intelligence Officer to oversee improvisational human resources for our company.

seeking an Amplification Engineer to improve organizational innovation by creating more flexible, personalized, and “augmented” work plans for individual employees. Amplification Engineer

seeking an Amplification Engineer to improve organizational innovation by creating more flexible, personalized, and “augmented” work plans for individual employees.

seeking a Chief Visualization Officer —or “Data Whisperer”—to devise new ways of visualizing our business. Chief Visualization Officer

seeking a Chief Visualization Officer —or “Data Whisperer”—to devise new ways of visualizing our business.

Data Ecologist seeking a Data Ecologist to design and manage both private and public data clouds related to our business.

seeking an Affinity Agent to build shared values and vision among highly diverse collaborators. Affinity Agent

seeking an Affinity Agent to build shared values and vision among highly diverse collaborators.

seeking a Junior Catalyst to spark new and experimental collaborations that emphasize diversity as source of innovation. Junior Catalyst

seeking a Junior Catalyst to spark new and experimental collaborations that emphasize diversity as source of innovation.

seeking a Chief Wellness Officer to implement and oversee a culture of health at the workplace. Chief Wellness Officer

seeking a Chief Wellness Officer to implement and oversee a culture of health at the workplace.

seeking a Biocitizen Liaison to serve as the primary point of contact between senior management and the members of our company’s various social health networks. Biocitizen Liaison

seeking a Biocitizen Liaison to serve as the primary point of contact between senior management and the members of our company’s various social health networks.

seeking a Senior Green Strategist to minimize our organization’s resource usage while maximizing productivity and profit. Senior Green Strategist

seeking a Senior Green Strategist to minimize our organization’s resource usage while maximizing productivity and profit.

seeking an Ecotect for a complete and custom “sustainability make-over” of our work environment. Ecotect

seeking an Ecotect for a complete and custom “sustainability make-over” of our work environment.

seeking a Cognitive Resources Manager to coordinate and augment mental efforts at the workplace. Cognitive Resources Manager

seeking a Cognitive Resources Manager to coordinate and augment mental efforts at the workplace.

seeking a Neurological Training Officer to improve cognitive fitness among our employees. Neurological Training Officer

seeking a Neurological Training Officer to improve cognitive fitness among our employees.

future of work map

amplified individual

Provide social filters for massive amounts of information highly social

highly social: sharing photos

highly social: sharing music

highly social: sharing news

highly social: sharing resources

highly social: life details

Tap into and contribute to the intelligence of crowds highly collective

highly collective: wikis

highly collective: prediction markets

highly collective: crowdsourcing

highly collective: crowdsourcing

i love bees

Band together ad hoc to create infrastructure and community highly improvisational

highly improvisational: coworking hat factory, san francisco

highly improvisational: virtual worlds

highly improvisational: critical mass budapest san francisco rome nyc calgary

Employ systems, tools, and hacks to enhance cognitive abilities and coordination skills highly augmented

highly augmented: information control

highly augmented: ambient devices

highly augmented: attention interfaces

highly augmented: attention interfaces Anti-procrastination alert: You have been browsing the Internet for 10 minutes. You can turn off these alerts in System Preferences. OK

highly augmented: cognitive interfaces

amplified individuals in the workplace

Diversity redefined

diversity redefined From politically correct to innovation imperative

diversity redefined: wisdom of crowds

diversity redefined: transdisciplinarity Source: http://www.hent.org/hent/hentnews/trans3.gif

diversity redefined: transdisciplinarity

diversity redefined: from cloistered specialists to global networks of innovation grid physics network

diversity redefined: new places for innovation Diversity redefined: new markets for innovation

Diversity redefined: new markets for innovation

diversity redefined: new places for science

diversity redefined in the workplace

visible world

visible world: sensory transformation

visible world: explosion of sensors

visible world People, places, things, and processes will be surrounded by new layers of visible reality

visible world: location trails

visible world: habit trails

visible world: collaboration trails

visible world: biometric trails

visible world Every object and every interaction is a data point

Unrelenting rivers of sensory data will flow day and night from zillions of sources. — Kevin Kelly visible world: zillionics

visible world: decoding patterns

New literacy of data visualization and interaction visible world

visible world: brooklyn buzz

visible world: 3D simulation

visible world in the workplace

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[email_address] We are on the brink of a new “scientification” of work.

We are on the brink of a new “scientification” of work.

[email_address] neuroscience enters the workplace mathematics becomes an integral part of management science neuroscience + mathematics = everything designed

neuroscience enters the workplace

mathematics becomes an integral part of management science

neuroscience + mathematics = everything designed

science@work: neuroscience gets a job The Neuroscience of Leadership by David Rock and Jeffrey Schwartz, 2006 http://www.strategy-business.com/press/freearticle/06207 Breakthroughs in brain research explain how to make organizational transformation succeed.

The Neuroscience of Leadership by David Rock and Jeffrey Schwartz, 2006 http://www.strategy-business.com/press/freearticle/06207

Breakthroughs in brain research explain how to make organizational transformation succeed.

[email_address] : neuroscience gets a job Remembering the Past to Imagine the Future by Karl K. Szpunar and Kathleen B. McDermott, 2007 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5526

Remembering the Past to Imagine the Future by Karl K. Szpunar and Kathleen B. McDermott, 2007 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5526

science@work: everything is an algorithm crowd dynamics

science in the workplace

sustainable enterprise

sustainable enterprise: big drivers the big story: sustainability is moving from the periphery to the core of business strategy and operations improved metrics, services, and case studies reveal sustainability as a profitable activity growing influence of personal sustainability on both consumption and career choices but: the definition of, and standards for, sustainability will continue to change in the next decade

the big story: sustainability is moving from the periphery to the core of business strategy and operations

improved metrics, services, and case studies reveal sustainability as a profitable activity

growing influence of personal sustainability on both consumption and career choices

but: the definition of, and standards for, sustainability will continue to change in the next decade

sustainable enterprise: new metrics, services, & concepts metrics: EPEAT, DJSI services: CO 2 offsets, green everything industrial ecology: designing factories and manufacturing regions to eliminate waste, build local interrelationships (e.g., Kalundborg, Denmark)

metrics: EPEAT, DJSI

services: CO 2 offsets, green everything

industrial ecology: designing factories and manufacturing regions to eliminate waste, build local interrelationships (e.g., Kalundborg, Denmark)

sustainable enterprise: personal sustainability & business starting to affect employee decisions about jobs and careers HR professionals moving from "sustainable careers" to sustainability as factor in career choices some company support for personal sustainability: e.g., Google hybrid car subsidy

starting to affect employee decisions about jobs and careers

HR professionals moving from "sustainable careers" to sustainability as factor in career choices

some company support for personal sustainability: e.g., Google hybrid car subsidy

sustainable enterprise: sustainable workplaces sustainable workplaces combine energy-efficient designs, appealing spaces for employees are often skyscrapers—a lesson in the unexpected ways high tech can be sustainable

sustainable workplaces combine energy-efficient designs, appealing spaces for employees

are often skyscrapers—a lesson in the unexpected ways high tech can be sustainable

sustainability in the workplace

health as a workplace value

biocitizenship people are designing ways to become the originators of their own health care choices people are using biologically infused language to describe themselves an active scientific citizenship is emerging

people are designing ways to become the originators of their own health care choices

people are using biologically infused language to describe themselves

an active scientific citizenship is emerging

wellness programs on the rise

drivers of biocitizenship new media ecologies biotechnology risk society

new media ecologies

biotechnology

risk society

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green health: technology on the way feral robotic dogs

biocitizens in the workplace

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