Competence, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing & the Future of Work

From the October 6th, 2017 Workforce & Learning Pathways In A Period Of Dynamic Change Conference; Alex Kass, Technology & Training Ecosystems, Accenture Labs examines...
1. Digital technology can enable managers to re-imagine how work gets done at the individual level, the team level, and the organizational level.
2. Sustainable transformations often require an integrated approach to all three levels, with clear value propositions for both the organization and the workers involved.
3. Technology can change how workers develop new competencies – and what it means to be competent as an individual, a team, and an organization.
4. The most transformational changes may prove to be at the organizational level – as hierarchical organization and fixed teams of resources giving way to ad-hoc teams formed and re-formed on demand through online labor markets that operate both inside the organization the enterprise boundary.
5. This new organizational model brings great potential benefit to both organizations and workers – but also raises risks and challenges that we must understand and confront.