| VUCAN DRIVERS – PARADIGMS
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| Old Norm |
New Norm |
| Static paradigms |
Shifting paradigms |
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| Static world |
VUCA world |
| Sequential time |
COVID time |
| We are all ‘normals’ |
We are all ‘VUCANs’ |
| Local environmental degradation |
Global warming |
| Human evolution |
Human extinction (on a bad day) |
| Incremental tech |
Disruptive tech |
| Brick/mortar shrinkage |
Online retail expansion |
| Situational anxiety |
Systemic social anxiety |
| Lifelong employment |
Just-in-time work requiring new skills |
| Rules based, artificial intelligence |
Self-learning and adapting artificial intelligence |
| Capitalist system |
Capitalist/socialist/organic systems |
| Capitalist work world |
Orange, Green and Blue work worlds |
| On campus education model |
Online/MOOC education models |
| Brick/mortar offices |
Pop up offices & work at home |
| Brick/mortar companies with full time workers |
Digital companies with ghost workers |
| External drivers to adaptation |
External and internal drivers to adaptation and self-disruption |
| Security |
Insecurity |
| Climate change denial |
Climate change acceptance |
| Simple questions and answers |
Difficult questions with few simple answers |
| Acceptance |
Desire for change |
| 4G |
5G |
| Steady-state professions |
Disrupted & disappearing professions |