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I found myself reminiscing tonight, after sharing an email with Jim Ware, co-founder of the Future of Work community and the Future of Work blog, about the possibility of meeting when he is here in Vancouver this week to do a couple of presentations about the book he co-authored, Corporate Agility.  

I say reminiscing because we obviously share some long-held interest and probably hold some similar perspectives about the principles underpinning our thinking.

I have been thinking, writing and speaking about the future of work for at least 15 years, and practicing as a mainstream organizational consultant with Hay Management Consultants for 10 years prior to that.  The name of my consulting practice from 1995 through to 2001 was Work Design Associates (then I switched it to Wirearchy and the work dropped off, as people weren't ready for thinking too hard about how the web would impact the knowledge workplace, 911 happened, etc.) ... Jim's current consulting practice is the Work Design Collaborative.

I combined knowledge of the "hard" aspects of the workplace ... compensation philosophy, strategy and practices, performance management, competency analysis, profiling and modeling and core talent management practices,  with the main "soft" aspects ... learning, organizational development, and coaching.

Here's a presentation I delivered several times in 2001 (BCHRMA Annual Conference, World At Work 2001) about the future of work in an increasingly digital-and-networked world.  It's not pretty graphically, but I think the ideas still stand up and are pertinent today.  Indeed, I'd argue that we are seeing many elements of this forecasted future unfold in front of us now.

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Tags: Future of work, wirearchy

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