Our Working Future

jason.averbook — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:27:14 GMT

Knowledge Infusion continually works with enterprise clients and vendors to ensure that their long-term HR, Human Capital Management and Talent Management strategies align to that of the workforce of the future.

A great interview with Malcolm Gladwell is linked to below. A few highlights:

"It's going to come from creating a more thoughtful work force and giving people the opportunity to be thoughtful."
We know with absolute certainty that the cognitive demands of the
workplace will be greater, not less; we know that Western industrial
nations are unlikely to be regaining manufacturing jobs.
We will require, from a larger and larger percentage of our work force,
                the ability to engage in relatively complicated analytical and
                cognitive tasks. So it's not that we're going to need more geniuses,
                but the 50th percentile is going to have to be better educated than
                they are now.
Trying to find a qualified person is going to be tougher in the next 10
years for most sophisticated businesses than it has ever been. This is
not a problem that's going away, it's one that's going to get worse.
The competitiveness of any organization is so dependent on the quality
                of the work force, and it would be so much easier for us to improve
                public education if corporations publicly and loudly lined up behind
                the public school system.

This is a great interview with Gladwell. Be sure to take a read and understand that each of his points tie back to key themes in an overall HR and HR technology strategy.

Another infusion of knowledge...

Link to article

Knowledge Infuser

Our Working Future