Presentation I did at the Startup Pirates @ Porto event that took place in September 2012. Though the talk was delivered in Portuguese, I uploaded an English version of the slides :) Enjoy!

1. The future of work
Ana Silva | @AnaDataGirl
Porto | September 2012

2. ME
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3. MACRO TRENDS
Source: Apollo Research Institute, 2011
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4. TRENDS Constant change
Social
Consumerization of IT (CoIT)
Mobility/ubiquity
Big Data
Hapinness/Work-Life balance
Generation Millennials
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5. TRENDS
CONSTANT CHANGE
“…unprecedented acceleration of change – a time for challenging
assumptions, reinventing systems, and hacking our way to new solutions”
Daniel Debow, Aug’2012
Source: Visual Economics @AnaDataGirl

6. TRENDS
SOCIAL
“Our social media tools aren’t
an alternative to real
life, they are part of it…
…they are increasingly the
coordinating tools for events in
the physical world…”
Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus
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7. TRENDS
MOBILITY/UBIQUITY
“According to IBM “One of the causal factors
Research, your springing from the
smartphone has democratization of
more computing technology is the decline
power than the of location as a limiting
whole world in factor”
1950” Stephen Denny, Jun’2012
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8. TRENDS
CONSUMERIZATION OF IT
“What used to be the sole preserve of the IT department in large
corporations is now available to anyone, anywhere.
I can get a more powerful, less expensive computer myself, either
online or even at retail – and increasingly, we’re expected to get
our own devices [BYOD]”
Stephen Denny, Jun’2012
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9. TRENDS
BIG DATA
“Google alone processes about 24 petabytes (or 24,000 terabytes) of
data. Yet very little of the information is formatted in the
traditional rows and columns of conventional databases”
Thomas H. Davenport, Paul Barth and Randy Bean, Jul’2012
Volume
4 V’s of Variety
Big Data Velocity
Value
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10. TRENDS
BIG DATA
Source: http://wikibon.org/blog/big-data-statistics/
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11. TRENDS
HAPPINESS/WORK-LIFE BALANCE
“The issue of work-life balance has been gaining momentum in the
past decade, in spite of the economic recession. Governments and
institutions, as well as single businesses, have recognised that its
achievement benefits not only worker health and morale, but
also productivity and country growth.”
HR Magazine, May’2012
Motivation Concerns
& about
engagement happiness and
of workers well-being
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12. TRENDS
GENERATION MILLENNIALS
“By the year 2020, there will be five generations in the
workplace. [companies] must deal with new ways to
attract, develop and engage all five generations and
prepare for age diversity in the workplace.”
futureworkplace, 2012
1st generation of digital natives
Different expectations regarding life
Different perspectives regarding work & career
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13. IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF WORK?
How will we work?
In what will we work?
Which skills will we need?
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14. ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
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15. IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF WORK?
How will we work?
In what will we work?
Which skills will we need?
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16. HOW? AT DISTANCE/FLEXIBLE
“...home working, part-time working, job sharing and flexi hours.
These help to meet the personal needs of staff as well as the
demands of a company working across many time zones”
Lynda Gratton, 2010
Source: business2community.com, Junho 2012 @AnaDataGirl

17. HOW? SPACES
“Converging spatial, social and informational trends are creating
demand for workplaces that support new patterns of collaboration”
Steelcase, 2010
Spaces designed for
Focus
Collaboration
Learning
Socialization
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18. HOW? NETWORKED/CONNECTED
"When we look back 30 years from today, what we'll see is
the transition from hierarchies to networks.“
Ben Hammersley, Aug’2012
From hierarchy... ...to wirearchy
Source: @davegray @dachisgroup (Flickr)
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19. IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF WORK?
How will we work?
In what will we work?
Which skills will we need?
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20. IN WHAT?
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
“We are entering the age of the 'micro-entrepreneur'
when ever decreasing costs of technology will significantly
reduce the barriers to getting off the ground, and when
talented people across the world will be connected and
keen to work with each other”
Lynda Gratton, 2011
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21. IN WHAT?
INTRAPRENEURSHIP
“One of the pathways for
“We want to reboot our companies to weather these
corporate and organizational storms is through unleashing the
culture to install a 21st century, entrepreneurial spirit latent in
digitally native version. We its employees enabling these
want to accelerate positive viral employees to carve out new paths,
change from deep within the initiate new ventures, defy the
fabric of our organizations” status quo in their organizations,
Peter Vander Auwera, Jul’2012
and break fresh ground.”
D V R Seshadri and Arabinda Tripathy, 2006
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22. IN WHAT?
MISSION
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23. IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF WORK?
How will we work?
In what will we work?
Which skills will we need?
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24. SKILLS 2020
SENSE-MAKING
ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being
expressed
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate
reactions and desired interactions
NOVEL AND ADAPTIVE THINKING
proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that
which is rote or rule-based
CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCY
ability to operate in different cultural settings
TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines
Source: Apollo Research Institute, 2011 @AnaDataGirl

25. SKILLS 2020
COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand
data-based reasoning
MEDIA LITERACY
ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to
leverage these media for persuasive communication
DESIGN MINDSET
ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes
COGNITIVE LOAD MANAGEMENT
ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand
how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques
VIRTUAL COLLABORATION
ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a
member of a virtual team
Source: Apollo Research Institute, 2011 @AnaDataGirl

26. SKILLS PULL
“Pull allows us to harness and unleash the forces of
attraction, influence and serendipity”
John Hagel et all, The Power of Pull, 2011
Access| flows of knowledge
Attract| serendipity/people at the edge
Achieve| potential/performance
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27. SKILLS T-SHAPED
Ability to collaborate & apply knowledge
specific to other areas
Solid competences in a
certain domain
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28. SKILLS DIGITAL LITERACY
“Across Europe there is a growing digital capability gap between
the demands for digital transformation on the one hand and the
skills, know-how and capability of the workforce on the other”
Don Tapscott, EU e-Skills Manifesto, 2012
NEW CONCEPTS OF THE WEB (social media, crowdsourcing…)
FUNCTIONING IN A NETWORK
SOCIAL CAPITAL ONLINE (Strength of weak ties)
SOCIAL TOOLS
SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
CODING AND NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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29. SKILLS MIND THE GAP
“entirely new categories of technology jobs are forming… A few
years ago, community managers did not exist… user
experience (UX) design is suddenly one of the nation's fastest
growing employment areas”
Daniel Gulati, Mar’2012
*
*We can’t find developers knowlegeable in new technologies &
usability, despite the 25% unemployement rate
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30. SKILLS TO CODE OR NOT TO CODE…
“Please don't advocate learning to code just
for the sake of learning how to code”
Jeff Atwood, May’2012
Formal training Self-taught
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31. SKILLS SOCIAL NET. ANALYSIS
Source: Orgnet
Source: @mich8elwu
Source: Atos
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32. SKILLS DATA SCIENTISTS
“A significant constraint on realizing value from Big Data will
be a shortage of talent, particularly of people with deep
expertise in statistics and machine learning”
McKinsey Global Institute, May’2011
Source: EMC Data Scientist Study, 2011
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33. SKILLS DATA SCIENTISTS
investigative savvy (know the questions to ask)
communications skills
creativity/artistry
ability to think counter-intuitively
solid statistical and machine learning background
technical knowledge of the tools & programming languages
Tony Baer, May’2012
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34. IMPACT Networked/connected?
ON A
PERSONAL Prepared?
LEVEL Curiosity?
Constant learning?
Diversity/at the edge?
Sense-making?
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35. IMPACT
How does my idea or
ON A
BUSINESS project fits in into this
LEVEL new reality?
Am I enabling/profiting
from these future changes?
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36. EXAMPLES
https://www.teepin.com/
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37. EXAMPLES
http://www.happinessatworksurvey.com/
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38. EXAMPLES
http://scratch.mit.edu/
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39. EXAMPLES
https://www.coursera.org/
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40. EXAMPLES
http://www.kaggle.com/
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41. EXAMPLES
http://www.0xdata.com/index.html
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42. EXAMPLES
http://www.identified.com/
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43. EXAMPLES
http://all-desk.com/
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44. Why wait for the
future of work...
...if you can help
create it?
Obrigada!
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