Future of Work Studio
Discuss the Future of Work with true peers
Today, we need to increasingly take control of our careers and day-to-day work to ensure we are building the right meaningful relationships, making an impact that matters to us, and constantly growing.
Share
Don’t just listen to a speaker or two. Share your observations, questions, and ideas with others to get their take.
Learn
Learn about key subjects before, during, and after each Studio interaction, learning that’s supported by videos, audios, documents, and the discussions themselves.
Explore
Have new ideas? What to consider others’ ideas? Explore what’s possible with those addressing similar challenges and opportunities as you.
Create
Get things done. To effectively address what’s here already as well as what’s forthcoming you and your colleagues will have to create new processes, systems, technologies, and ways of doing things. This is part of where this can happen.
How does it work? 4 simple steps:
Become a PAFOW Community Member. Doing so will allow us to match you with peers in real-time based on role/level, geography, industry, function, and interest areas.
Join a Future of Work Studio Discussion. The format is efficient, valuable, and uniquely engaging:
Welcome and review/orientation into the topic of the day — 5 to 7 minutes
Conversation 1: Share observations, questions, & ideas (OQI’s) with two people you’ve been matched with — 9-minutes... quick 30 second transition into the next conversation
Conversation 2: Share observations, questions, & ideas (OQI’s) with two new people you’ve been matched with — 9-minutes... quick 30 second transition into the next conversation
Conversation 3: Share observations, questions, & ideas (OQI’s) with two more people you’ve been matched with — 9-minutes.
Download the contact information of the six people with which you had the conversations (if authorized for sharing)
Share your observations, questions, and ideas in a post-discussion survey.
Summary Results, including the highest-rated Risks and Opportunities, will be shared with those who participated.
Join the Future of Work Studio on the PAFOW Community App. This is where the Summary Results of all Studio Discussions will be found. Comment and share as you like.
Stay up to date with the FOW Studio discussions, happening weekly, share with friends and colleagues, and invite those you’d like to join. The more involved the more valuable the interactions, insights, and ideas!
Note: The information and assertions above are those of the authors. They do not represent the views of PAFOW and its affiliates. These are provided for discussion purposes only.
Excerpt on the metaverse from the PAFOW Podcast with Rodney Evans of The Ready
Related Research & Articles
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Why Metaversial Business Is a Very Long Way Off
By Mark Raskino, November 01, 2021
“Open up your firewalls to let your people access us!” said Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life, as I recall. He was being interviewed on stage by my colleague Steve Prentice (now retired), who asked what the hundreds of CIOs and IT leaders in the audience could do to advance corporate use of immersive virtual worlds for business.
It was April 2007, Gartner IT Symposium, and Second Life was the red hot next-big-thing. It was fast becoming a mainstream belief that VR was an imminent next step beyond the web. So much so, it was on the front cover of BusinessWeek. A Fortune magazine article told how then CEO of IBM Sam Palimsano was keen on it, and how he and his his avatar were already hanging out in virtual world meetings. It was the second time in my life I got excited about virtual worlds and the second false dawn.
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Every Company Will Be A Metaverse Company
by Theo
And every company will need a Chief Metaverse Officer. There, I’ve said it and got in before Gartner.
Ok, so slightly tongue in cheek but there is a seriousness to this. We have been here before, some 15 years before. Back in the days of 2006/ 2007, there was a rush to Liden Lab’s Second Life as businesses scrambled to own their own piece of an early metaverse and have a presence there. They didn’t really understand what it was, or why, or even how to engage with clients and others but hey, it didn’t stop them either.
“Second Life is a new phenomenon that represents a completely different approach to business, just as the internet did at the beginning. We are now seeing all sorts of commercial businesses taking a serious look at Second Life.
“Businesses should be experimenting. People in your organisation may already be using Second Life, so there is an opportunity to develop home-grown expertise, and to understand what it is all about before your competitors.”
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella on Flexible Work, the Metaverse, and the Power of Empathy
by Harvard Business Review, October 28, 2021
Summary. For episode 1 of the HBR video series “The New World of Work”, editor in chief Adi Ignatius sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to discuss rapidly evolving trends in how we collaborate, especially in a hybrid world. Nadella suggests that technology can create a metaverse that will help bridge the virtual and real worlds. He also talks about experiments at Microsoft and elsewhere that ensure both weak and strong ties remain strong in hybrid work, and discusses the overriding power of empathy as a leader and as a catalyst for innovation.
Few people have more insight than Satya Nadella into how teams collaborate and innovate successfully. HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius interviewed the Microsoft CEO to discuss what team collaboration will look like going forward, the next generation of workplace technology, the new imperatives of leadership — and whether and when our future workplaces will in fact start to look like the “metaverse” fantasies of science fiction.
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Don’t just listen to a speaker or two. Share your observations, questions, and ideas with others to get their take.
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Learn about key subjects before, during, and after each Studio interaction, learning that’s supported by videos, audios, documents, and the discussions themselves.
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Have new ideas? What to consider others’ ideas? Explore what’s possible with those addressing similar challenges and opportunities as you.
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Get things done. To effectively address what’s here already as well as what’s forthcoming you and your colleagues will have to create new processes, systems, technologies, and ways of doing things. This is part of where this can happen.