Right now there is a pattern of change that’s going to influence the entire world. That’s going to affect each one of us, every aspect of your personnel and professional life. If we fail to anticipate this change, we are going to experience pain. If we do anticipate it, we can have an advantage and create a greater quality of life than we ever had before. This simple habit of change is coming into our whole industrialized world more rapidly than ever before.
This affects everyone, if not now than in the near future. There is a radically change in the structure of work. Before, if you had a job and you really added value, you stayed with that company unless you decided to leave. If that company had troubles for one reason or the other, you had at least mark able experience that you could use for another job. You planned your life based around that.
So what has changed? Well one thing is the future. Companies in order to be able to compete, are changing the structures and cooperation and therefore the number of jobs and the types of jobs that are available. The impact of their decision making is changing the structure of work. Companies are beginning to realize that the structure of a company must be flexible, that it must be quick and rapid to meet the changing desires, modes and needs of today’s consumers. They need to compete on a world scale. As a result you see this big cooperation’s shrinking and outsourcing, and lots of small businesses are being created.
The impact on people’s life is important; it destabilizes what most people take for granted. If we are moving into the current direction (and there is no reason why it should not), that means that half of our population will be part of outsourcing. They will be part-time employed or multiple employed. The impact on certainty about the future is important. It demands from you strong abilities to create qualities so that you continue to have the same customer as an employer. Soon your employer can become your customer if you work for someone else in any way, shape or form.
Why are some many people in new job-structures? The reason is that we are entering a new society with different rules that forces business to make changes. The first one is technology. It’s changing the way companies operate; through new technology they can have now the same job done (or better done) with fewer human beings. And is changes the way we work; we no longer need to go to one place to do our job; we can do it wherever we want. We are in a position where many people can virtually decide to live anywhere.
The next main factor is competition. Because of technology, we truly have a competitive world. People now from anywhere in the world can interact, can do business, can make offers, can develop concepts, can synergize between one another. This is creating a world where so many people are participating and producing products and services; and all this has been a huge change in the balance between supply and demand. This generation has learned a different lesson than previous generations about buying products and services and they are affecting the workplace. This whole process of change or reengineering is all about how we use human creativity to change the way business functions by adding more and more value.
This is a process of using human intellect to transform dormant resources (something you are not currently using: a skill, an understanding, and an expertise, people, computers that are not been fully utilized…) into significant assets that powerful increases the leverage of your company. So many resources are underutilized; what gives things value in the 21th century is creativity, brainpower.
We are living in a society now where the demands are so much higher on business that we have to be more creative than ever before.
