Future of Workspace
Team composition
Introduction
How will the business workspace look in the next ten years.
Hopefully like this
http://download.sneijers.net/hawaii.jpg
Scope
To be filled in
Current landscape
How mobile is the European workforce? The following facts and figures give a general overview of current situation in the EU labour market.
- Job-to-job mobility
- Geographical mobility
- Cross-border workers
- Foreign language learning
- Skills & labour shortages
- Free movement and enlargement of the EU
Source: http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/workersmobility2006/fact_figures_en.htm
Research dimensions
1. Technological
2. Political and Legal
3. Enviromental
4. Economical
5. Social
Driving Forces
+++Please Order all new driving forces alphabetical+++
Guys, to avoid duplicate driving forces you also have to link your driving force at this page
Technological
- High Speed Train Network (HSL)
- Network Bandwidth
- Pay-as-you-drive
- Technological convergence
- The increase of digital developing functions in a mobile phone
- Virtual Communication
- Virtual Communities
- WiBro
- WiMAX
Political and Legal
Enviromental
- Global Warming
- Global Dimming
- Green Buildings
- Green transporation mediums
- Pollution
- Public meeting spaces
- Traffic Congestion
Economical
- Business in Society
- High Speed Train Network (HSL)
- Iranian Oil Bourse
- Pay-as-you-drive
- Traffic Congestion
Social
- Aging Europe
- Business in Society
- Emergence of new Technology Related Diseases
- immigration
- Increasing Mobility
- Mobile workplace
- People's need for communication and information
- Power of Information-anywhere, everywhere
- The Globalization of Culture (or Cultural Globalization)
- The Language Barrier
- Urbanization and Social Status
Research questions
Technological
- What's the most promising emerging technology to support virtual communication and doing business?
- How will the future workscape be equiped? Which devices will be used?
- What kind of technological infrastructure is needed to support the future workspace?
- What role will security play in the future workspace?
Political and Legal
- What are the effects of unequal minimum wages between European countries on the workspace?
- How can you find harmony between European countries on regulations and legislation concerning the workspace with respect to country's sovereignty?
- What’s the role of the European Union on the workspace? How can they support it and how can they thwart it?
- How will political/international relations affect the future workspace?
- What sorts of initiatives are being carried out by other governmental institutions around the world?
- Legal and regulatory constraints on the application and implementation of a future workspace
Enviromental
- How will enviromental legislature affect the bottom line of our company?
- How will Kyoto protocol affect operating costs of an office building?
- What future enviromental protection legislature will have an affect on transporation to/from our place of work?
- How will alternative sources of energy affect the way we work?
- What are the most serious affects of our workspace on the environment?
Economical
- What will the general European economical developments most likely be within the coming decade?
- How will the general European economical development affect the future of the workspace?
- How will the future workspace contribute to the economical direction and position of Europe?
Social
- How could religion affect possible implications in a future workspace?
- Will there be a standard language in a multi-cultural company?
- How does the future workspace influence the client/colleque relationship?
- How will a future workspace change the organisational hierarchy?
- How do you control and manage employees when you can work anywhere anytime?
- How will a future workspace affect the training process?
- How will a future workspace affect knowledge sharing within the corporation and within the entire supply chain of companies?
- How will immigration and people with other cultural backgrounds affect the future workspace?
Predetermined and critical uncertainties
Framework / System diagrams
Assumptions
Scenarios
++Scenario 1 Assumptions++
- Improving mobility of workforce - Less flexible state of organizations - Standardized state of mobile technology - Dissolving state of the EU - More flexible state of society - Low liberation of labor laws - Declining state of economy - Stable state of environment +People are ready, business / Europe is not+
Implications
Strategic Roadmap
References
Articles
- 3rd wave of Internet and collaborative working environments (PDF)
- Ambient Intelligence: The evolution of technology, communication and cognition towards the future of human-computer interaction
- Application Scenarios for Next Generation Collaborative Working Environments 2005 - 2010 (PDF)
- Collaboration@Work Report 2005 (PDF)
- Collaborative Solutions in the Single European Electronic Market (SEEM). Strategy vision and Research challenges. (PDF)
- Legal and regulatory constraints on the application and implementation of IST research results that may affect their impact on knowledge society development through new working environments (PDF)
- Report on Next Generation Collaborative Working Environments 2005 - 2010
- Section IV: Ambient Intelligence In Practice: Future Perspectives And Applications; Chapter 13 : "AMI-endowed Collaboration@Work (PDF)
- Successfully crossing frontiers in IT - working in research. Information Society Marie Curie Industry Host Fellowships and Training Accompanying Measures. (PDF)
Books
Websites
- Aviva Forward Thinking - The economist
- EU - Towards a european labour market
- Global Business Network Documents
- PWC - International mobility insight
- Scenario Thinking Portal