Future of Work Forecasts 2024: Driving Forces Shaping the Future of Work in the Next 12 Months Cover Photo by Cottonbro Studio on Pexels.com AI confusion. AI will be everywhere, but it won’t all be the same. As most enterprise software gains some level of AI functionality in 2024, organizations will realize that AIs from different vendors may represent different … [Read more...] about Future of Work Forecasts 2024: Driving Forces Shaping the Future of Work in the Next 12 Months
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Fake News and Sloppy Editing: Scientific American and InStyle Offer Examples of Speed Triumphing Over Quality
Fake News and Sloppy Editing: Scientific American and InStyle Offer Examples of Speed Triumphing Over Quality. There are plenty of instances of opinion or misinformation parading as fact. Sloppy editing doesn't help defend against fake news. Yesterday (August 15, 2023), when reading my news stream on Apple News, I found two disheartening mistakes. The first was from the … [Read more...] about Fake News and Sloppy Editing: Scientific American and InStyle Offer Examples of Speed Triumphing Over Quality
5 Ways Companies Get Return-to-Workplace Policies Wrong
5 Ways Companies Get Return-to-Workplace Policies Wrong Even Zoom is asking its employees to return to the office twice a week for those living near an office (see, Even Zoom is making its staff return to the office on CNN). Just asking people to return to work doesn't make sense. The employees know it isn't about being productive because we are still productive, perhaps … [Read more...] about 5 Ways Companies Get Return-to-Workplace Policies Wrong
3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning
3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning As the future seemingly becomes ever more uncertain, functions within organizations, not just the organizations themselves, need tools like scenario planning to help them think about a wide range of issues. Scenario planning is the art and practice of imagining multiple futures to create a strategic context for planning and decision … [Read more...] about 3 Reasons CIOs Need Scenario Planning
Arguing for VUCA as the Standard Shorthand for Characterizing the Future
VUCA is an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. It's a phrase intended to place a conceptual wrapper around all the things facing us. It does an adequate job of serving that purpose. There are, however, moves to improve this forward-looking term. I think those efforts insert unnecessary complexity to futures thinking that should be better spent … [Read more...] about Arguing for VUCA as the Standard Shorthand for Characterizing the Future