Becoming a future-ready company in most of the business enterprise and government top decision maker mind. In the COVID-19 wave after another, following with the variants, whether or not the vaccine is effective or not, we still need at least 3 to 6 months to see.
But the global economy due to lockdowns and businesses that are already in debt and under restructuring or downsized, or worse being sold off, it takes time for the entire market to absorb the excessive amount of the labour that is not ready for future-ready companies.
Despite it almost a year now from the COVID-19, we can see the various ways for the country and way for their interventions no really focus on the people first, but either politician needs first. Only a few countries we can see really doing a good job to focus on people and they are doing the COVID-19 isolation and contain it as the world’s best benchmark case.
Future-ready company got two major component, company that is know how and leverage digital transformation (DT), you can see how the entire company, from the top down, management is really able to apply digital transformation strategy to accelerate the scale, scope and speed for the company to move forward, even whole world is under the COVID-19 impact. This type of company is on the side to always be there for the tomorrow world, because they are responsive to the world changing needs and able to adapt fast for it.For the other component, it is knowledge worker, I remain like the word coin by Peter Drucker long long time ago to differentiate the employees who are professional, capable to provide value added capability and less need to be supervision, where the company may continue to depend on. The whole world is moving toward a global virtual team, where we need less people, quality people that are capable to assist the company to run multi-country operations, regionally or globally. This type of employee is self-discipline, productive and the one who follows closely for where the world and trends go. They know all the modern office productivity applications and know how to work in the company, proactive in providing their services for their employer needs. In other words, they know how to deliver value added to let them remain competitive, attractive in the eye for the employer. Of course, you can imagine, when the company needs to axe deadwood to let the company keep growing, who will be in the list employers will put under to keep.
A very quick check you will surprise, most of the people remain only possess generic office application or few industry application they used too, but they never and even brother to invest their leisure time for what will make them shrine in the career or make them in the list of keep, rather than in the list to let go under downsizing and cost cutting corporate exercise, due to they do not possess value add, whether they are consciously aware or not. Get insight for what people did during leisure time, you will know how they become tomorrow. Either they become competitive over time, or being left behind over time.
After the work day, people choose to entertain for the rest of the leisure, whether just surf internet or engaged in endless of social media, compare with someone who will proactive managing a study timetable and keep him or herself under continuous professional development (CPD), to make sure he or she is capable to understand and apply the new capability the future-ready company want.
So, are you ready to become a future-ready company as a business enterprise, or are you ready to become one of the employees in the future-ready companies? Let’s start to act now, time will not wait until you are ready.
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