Are you prepared to say that virtual teams will become yesterday's way to work? According to Gartner’s predictions for the changing world of work, get ready for the next generation: Work Swarms.
Work swarms are a significantly more agile alternative to virtual teams.
Swarms swoop down to attack ad hoc problems, such as to detect emerging patterns in the marketplace or proactively create new designs are models . Unlike virtual teams where people may have worked together before, swarms are people that you tap into through your personal, professional, or social network. In other words, they are people that you don't know, but perhaps someone else does and has high confidence in their ability to contribute something of value to your team.
Discovery, innovation, teaming, leading, selling, and learning are the unique human processes that will become even more important in the future. Work that can be automated, will be automated. But Gartner says that the highest core value that people add is in “non-routine processes, uniquely human, analytical, or interactive contributions.”
If you think the line between work and your personal life is blurry now, get ready! In the next ten years, Gartner predicts “expectation and interrupt overloads” 24/7. We have only begun to experience information overload. We will be in a hyperconnected environment where more will be expected of all of us.
Virtual teams will still exist in the future. Gartner’s projections say they will become faster, more agile, and more focused in filling niche needs that will give a company a competitive advantage in a very different workplace. Virtual leaders and teams will need to up their skills again to make sure the human side of their work remains rock-solid strong—especially with people that they will never meet face-to-face.
Check out Gartner’s full article titled “10 Changes During the Next 10 Years
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1416513
Jaclyn Kostner, Ph.D., Bridge the Distance, www.distance.com
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