Innovation has to happen whether or not big companies can afford it. As a result, smaller and smaller increments of value are worth more and more.
WealthHabit: Embedded Learning and Quantification: The New Architecture of Work IV A significant portion of the workforce is underwater on their houses (11Million), behind on their monthly payments, drowning in college debt, subsidizing other family members or simply recovering from bad habits with credit cards. Financial stress absorbs time and attention during the workday (particular […]
It’s easy to build an organization of rules embedded in software. While the rules ensure consistency, they are the enemy of innovation. This is the answer to the question "Where is the innovation in Recruiting?"
Industry stalwarts cry that if practitioners would only do this right, they’d get better results. That’s what academics do when their ideas perform well in the lab but go feral in the wild.
Work-life was much simpler in the last century. Information work entailed following instructions and procedures, and logical analysis. Today’s concept work is improvisation. Learning leaders must deal with situations that aren’t in the rule book.
Whether it’s administrative paperwork, project plans or performance objectives, gamification will be used to influence the way work gets done. Gamification is the key to measuring and understanding work pacing and flow in information work.
If the department’s job is to manage, maintain, evaluate, improve and dispose of assets, that’s where it’s focus will be: on the assets themselves and not on the work. Owning and managing the list of assets is interesting and important, it is far from strategic.
Time and motion are not the issue when the product is ideas, conversation and reusable intellectual property. The only thing we know for sure about breakthrough software development is that it seems to involve late nights and a lot of pizza.
In a world of rapid feedback in large volumes, employees are looking for clues about whether to stay or to go. There are a ton of variables that can be combined to create a really meaningful assessment of one’s prospects within a company.
Technology does not make recruiting easier. It makes it better and more precise. Great tools increase the level of detail that can be managed.
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