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
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
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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
Catalyst for Change
Scenario 2
- Stable mobility of workforce
- More Flexible state of organizations
- Proprietary standards of mobile technology
- More integrated state of the EU
- Traditional state of society
- High liberation of labor laws
- Growth state of economy
- Improving state of environment
Ready When You Are
Scenario 3 Assumptions
- Deteriorating mobility of workforce
- Traditional state of organizations
- Standardized state of mobile technology
- Stable state of the EU
- Traditional state of society
- Slack state of labor laws
- Stabilization of economy
- Deteriorating environment
Technology is ready, but Europe, businesses and people are hesitant
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