The cold facts and warm realities; in next few hundred daysover 50% of office work, office workers and offices themselves will all disappear permanently. Covid19 did not break any system, as systems were already broken; now as a mirror to us to face the truth, equipped with ‘do or die’ protocols; harshly teaching us in real time our national leadership response, execution speed and challenging our classifications and definitions of what we show as economic success. Rest is medicine, science and frailty of mankind against desperate upgrades of competency levels.
Office work, originally created to handle paper-flow, already automated at the fastest pace ever with advent of block-chain, AI+AR+VR and progressively digitized in multiple propagations. Every digitized best practice like a virus sucks up the entire national vertical sector paper flow at bullet speed. Almost free technologies like magic disappearing office into silent blinking.If there is any paper-shuffle left in an office, it’s only clerical and must be fully digitized, if there are any sequential layers of approvals and certifications needs, it’s only managerial and must be transformed to block-chain set up, if it’s only corporate and entrepreneurial in strategies, it only critical thinking and complex problem solving, easily operate able from any formal boardroom or rainforest like country club setting from anywhere downtown or uptown. Flat hierarchies with minimal supervision interlaced with AI+AR+VR+ and block-chained technologies on digital platforms with extraordinary power play to dominate the disappearance of office work.
Advantage; freedom from paper-bureaucracies, unlimited free time and saving to create new ideas
Office workers, originally trained to manage paper-flow, nowwondering on the floor, from senior executives with corner offices to middle managers and cubical habitants now rapidly removed, as post Covid19 world, finally going “remote working” as fully rooted as respectable in corporate performance protocols; unlimited freedom against superior performance, unlimited options to telescope or zoom out on projects against all related savings of overheads and cumbersome commuting. This is slipping into Gig-economy, this is respectable full time highly responsible proper office mandates but on remote working basis as new successful models. Periodical group gatherings or intense work-shops will do the rest of the face to face connectivity for the organization. Over 50% office workers prefer remote. Freedoms into physical spaces of ‘choice’ automatically improve skills and performance. Remote working, today, most optimized and flexible for global talents on time zone adjustments issues, new seeking new professional work ethics and controls. Win win and make work easy and life happy. Remote office worker is now a new higher profile image.
Advantage; unlimited upskilling, reskilling options and creative freedoms with global reach
Office structures, originally created to charge higher prices for looks, are cumbersome last century business models. The highest rental costs, the compact elevators, the cold water coolers, all unnecessary luggage. The 10,000 shiny downtown cores mostly in developed and over built cities and their imbedded high gloss luster office tower clusters, the most expensive real estate of any city now questionable on costs, efficiencies and sufferings on workers may go dim or find other justifiable use. Downtowns may become almost free low cost tourism centers.
Advantage; save planet as 2 billion leave daily hamster wheels, save cities by replacing cement jungles
SME Mobilization: The sudden global mind shifts on small medium business economies of the world
SME of the world post Covid19 will be far superior in their structure for being digital, while their business operations for being more global thinking in nature and their management of sorts for being under constant upskilling and reskilling resulting in superior performances. This is a major economic game changer at global scale across all sectors across the world. Last 100 days ago, suddenly Covid 19 brought SME to the top of the economic survival agenda on the podiums and for the first time ever since the history of the start of business some combined trillion dollars allocated across the western world in help. President Trump took the lead and other followed. The system of distribution of funds not perfected yet still however a colossal shift in attitudes.
In coming months, while the big businesses of the world will streamline to survive, some billion small medium businesses will start to rise up with highest productivity, performance and profitability. They finally got the most critically needed attention from most national leaderships of the world. A massive series of new debates have started around world to mobilize national SME on upskilling and reskilling platforms.
Key debates topics: Uplifting national sme economy post covid 19: How upskilling, reskilling SME and uplifting women entreprenurs saves national economies? Why such ideas are not major funding dependent but mobilzation hungry and execution starved? What special skills required to uplift midsize business economy post Coved19 and how to deploy? How Alibaba generated USD$39 Billion in sales within 24 hours on 11-11-2019, as one example?
Key questions: Are regions ready for national mobilization of entrepreneurialism? Are top trade associations and chambers of commerce in agreement on SME upskilling? Is there a national agenda to quadruple performance and drive exportability?
Key challenges: How in simultaneous synchronization upskilling of 1000 to 10,000 SME achieved on a fast track basis? How Roundtable discussions LIVE streamed to 100,000 stakeholders instantly create a national umbrella? How Pentiana Program placing 25,000 SME manufacturers on digital platforms of upskilling?
Now, national leaderships across the world along with Trade Ministries of Small Medium Business and Economic Development Agencies plus trade groups like major vertical national trade associations and Chamber of Commerce need very special skills to tackle their own vertical markets and massive memberships. There are special issues on core performance, digitization, especially on showcasing, upskilling and reskilling demands. Once these dynamic fronts clarified, whatever role if any they may wish to play optimized, the competitive global demands on global image positioning and quadrupling exportability challenges are very real and advanced nature.
Although, futurism is workless, but it’s not trade-less, a new thinking must emerge.
In coming 1000 days, the office-work, office-workers and office-structures under constant disruption mostly disappear in relevant digital platforms, with extra ordinary savings and improved performances, leaving bright complex problem solvers, creative thinkers and entrepreneurial warriors of all sorts, shapes and sizes…tackling a diverse, tolerant and economically vibrant and peaceful world. A bright future awaits.
How do you measure if you are ready?
Study fast, fail fast, learn fast, catch up a lost decade, become expert and acquire mastery.
Look at mirror seeking truth daily, open mind as a global warrior,
Rest is easy
