People joining the Talent Cloud will get access to exclusive training and information, formely only accessible for employees. They will also need to pass IBMzon's certification in one of its service areas, and maintain a track record of learning updates and experience to remain in the cloud. A yearly framework contract arranges their fees and terms, and they will get deployed on IBMzon projects on a per-assignment basis.
Does this mark the end of the traditional employer-employee relationship? "No", according to Mr. Deepak Blue, the manager of the programme. "What Talent Cloud will allow us, is to flexibly tap into a workforce we didn't have before. It will allow us to align our combined workforce of full time employees and Talent Cloud associates to the market fluctuations, increasing flexibility for our many clients. Also, this allows us to extend our services into the 'long tail' of talent. Normally, you can only hire someone with a very specific and deep skill when you can ensure their full time utilisation. With Talent Cloud, we can now attract and deploy these one-of-a-kind skills. Thirdly, Talent Cloud gives us a competitive advantage dealing with the new demographics in the workforce. We can now attract young enterpreneurs that are not looking to work for big firms, as well as retain or retiring people in a more loosely coupled way."
Needless to say, the unions are worried ...
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Note: this is the third in a series of fake future newspaper articles, illustrating possible learning futures. At the latest Online Educa Berlin conference, 4 learning future learning scenarios were developed: old boy network, in-crowd, big data and quantified self. This fake article illustrates the incrowd world. The image above is taken from the workshop pictures available on the learningscenarios.org site.
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- INCROWD : IBMzon launches Talent Cloud
- QUANTIFIED SELF : "Did you thank someone today?" asks Otto, the self coaching app
- BIG DATA : Noogle's decline caused by Predictor bug?
Hi Bert! I really like your scenarios, they are thought evoking. In this one (in-crowd) I smell a contradiction; how can people aligned around values and grouping in communities work not on their own projects about which they are passionate but on IMBzones projects? Wouldn't these communities have rather their own client network?
ReplyDeleteHi Bianka - this is how a company would tap into a community to find people to work on its projects more or less. But you are right, maybe in this scenario the power balance is more towards the community that will 'screen' companies and projects they want to work for :-) What a change that would be!
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