Is Your Teamwork Future Proof ?

Andrew Fieldhouse discusses the importance of developing the way your team works together

It doesn’t take a guru to tell you the world is changing, and fast. Powerful influencers like technology (especially robotics and AI), social media and globalisation are influencing every aspect of human existence, with a direct impact on our workforce.

This change is becoming exponential, and subject to Moore’s law – originally coined for the semiconductor industry, which observed a doubling in capacity every 18 to 24 months. It is now being applied across business structures and practices and it’s only going to get faster.

One of the crucial pieces of evidence that supports these changes is Deloitte’s annual Global Human Capital Trends Report, published for the fifth time earlier this year. The report highlights what is happening in the business world, with evidence garnered from more than 10,000 survey respondents in 140 countries.

The report’s number one priority for the second year running is organisational design – how businesses are evolving away from traditional, 20th Century hierarchical structures to far more agile and responsive organisms suited to the fluid nature of life in the digital age.