China is changing Handy’s work model. The middle ring includes suppliers providing products and contractors providing services. Over the years, many companies outsourced in China. This may grind to a halt over the next few years as trade war and tariffs increase. China’s Digital Curtain is replacing the Soviet Union’s Iron Curtain. The Handy work …
You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated. Tom Preston – Werner – Software Developer Is your job safe? McKinsey, the global consulting firm, stated that: “Fewer than 5% of occupations can be entirely automated using current technology. However, about 60% of all occupations could have 30% or more of their constituent activities automated. …
What is happening with automation and globalization, that’s not going away. Campbell Brown – TV News Reporter & Entrepreneur Handy’s inner ring is going through changes. Process work is reconfigured by tech, Including robotics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, 3-D printing, and software. Process work that can be standardized is automated as machines are getting smarter and …
You can see the Handy Work Model in many companies including Uber, Google and many highly-valued companies. Many companies use the Handy work model, which looks like this: “In 2015 Uber, the world’s largest taxi company owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s …
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing. Edwards Deming – Quality Guru I’ve introduced the Handy Work Model to thousands of VUCANs in workshops and seminars. The common refrain I hear is: ‘it’s so bleak and negative’. Good point. It is what it is. This is what’s happening …
Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption. Aaron Levie – Entrepreneur Charles Handy, probably the smartest workplace guru, said thirty years ago that work is fundamentally changing. Companies own core intellectual assets including proprietary processes and intellectual property. Handy then coined the notion of ½ by 2 by 3 rule of …
What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try to innovate. Sam Altman – Programmer and Investor All companies, even global corporations, have discovered they can’t be all things to all VUCANs. As companies attempted to please different customers with a large variety of …
If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement. Laszlo Bock – Author Work and process rules are guidelines, tips and tools that can lead to success. Thomas Davenport, author of Thinking for a Living said: “To treat something as a process is to impose a formal structure on it – …
Process is a particular course of action intended to achieve a result. Dictionary Processes are how work is done in many companies. The traditional process structure was a pyramid with the Chief Executive Officer at the top. Work flowed down and across the organization. Technology, new business models, globalization, customer’s expectations, automation have created new business models and work processes: …
VUCAN DRIVERS – PROCESSES Old Norm New Norm Core process work Project work Fixed organizational structure Fluid & agile structure Offshoring Near shoring Buy in ‘Make or Buy’ Make in ‘Make or Buy’ Outsourcing to China Reshoring Chinese partnering and collaboration Digital Curtain with China Made in China Made in U.S. Transactional sourcing Enterprise focused sourcing Vertical …