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The Future of Work Skills Planning
Rawn Shah
Michael Davis-Marks
27-28 October 2015 | Paris

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Non-Hierarchical
Multi-disciplinary
Connected
Collaborative
A Common Culture
Diverse
Passionate
Flexible
Versatile
80+ exceptional people
with shared professional interests
working on core ventures
=
Entrepreneurs for
Operations & Delivery
Domain Experts
in Sales & Marketing
with deep industry
connections
Core Ventures
Thought
Leaders
with
visionary
ideas
Technology Leaders,
Designers, Architects

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✓ No job titles / descriptions
✓ Flat, Collaborative, Agile, Effective
✓ Each group is a small agile team
✓ Each Partner chooses work they are passionate about
✓ Each sets their own direction with sufficient consultation
Self-directed Teams = No management or hierarchy,
only coordination.

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Ethos Smart
(Urbanisation)
Current Problems:
● Transport, energy, housing
● > 50% of World now urban
● Infrastructure now stressed
● Running out of cash
● Siloed efforts pursuing self-
interest not working
Ethos Skills
(Future of Work)
Current Problems:
● Commoditisation of
industrial work (= less jobs)
● Need to re-skill populations
● Ageing population
● Technology leading to
polarisation and exclusion
Health and Wellbeing
(inc Ethos Sport)
Current Problems:
● Ageing population &
healthcare systems
● Massive demand without
developed markets
● Siloed approaches across
gov, businesses, charities
The Cities Parking Platform
Our Domains of Interest

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Construction companies:
➢ Don’t see the supply picture
➢ Don’t see other companies
FE Colleges
➢ Don’t see the demand picture
➢ Don’t see the London picture
➢ Don’t see the other FEs picture
The Construction skills gap in London

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LinkedDataPlatform
Logic
SameAs,
Identity &
Mappings
Open Data
Vocabularies, Taxonomies,
Classification
Open
Linked Data
Commercial
Offerings
SaaS
Applications
3rd Party
Linked Data
➢ A data platform that maps skills
➢ for a variety of stakeholders
➢ to support employability activities
through visualisation and analysis
Data Flows

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Ecosystem Operations

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Ecosystem Partners
Brokerage Partners City & Government Partners
Industry Partners
Training Partners
Kingston College

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Questions?
Rawn Shah
@rawn
rawn.shah@ethosvo.org
Mike Davis-Marks
@jollijacktar
mdm@ethosvo.org
Rebecca Lovelace
SkillsPlanner Project Leader
rebecca.lovelace@ethosvo.org
http://skillsplanner.net

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Thank You!