Much fanfare has been made of the promise and potential of the platform economy, predominantly for its flexibility and efficiency, but for workers in the “gig economy,” is it really a reasonable way to earn a living? This is the central question at the heart of Juliet Schor’s (Boston College) research on some of the big six providers: Airbnb, TaskRabbit, Uber, Lyft, Postmates and Favor.
What if you could spin up an entire organization of qualified experts in a matter of moments? This is precisely what Stanford’s Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein aim to accomplish with their research on Flash Orgs (crowdsourcing complex work using reconfigurable organizational structures).
In this keynote from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Julie Larson Green (former Chief Experience Office at Microsoft) shares insights into the fascinating (and nuanced) ways that work around the world is evolving in the digital economy. Here is a snapshot of what the modern worker and the future of work looks like.
Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Keith Hopper a Visiting Entrepreneur in Residence at Olin College of Engineering, explored the way companies set and define their “strategy” and how this is changing (and maybe dying) in the “Age of Agile.”
