My friend, colleague and co-author Dan Rasmus has a new piece in Strategy + Business called ''Keeping up with Workforce 2020.'' In it, Dan looks at some of the major themes of the coming decade that managers should keep in mind, including moves toward the punctuated workday (where more people choose when, how and where they engage with work and ...

A few weeks ago, my pal Venkatesh Rao, who usually blogs at Ribbon Farm, wrote a terrific piece over at Enterprise 2.0 Blog discussing the growing disconnect between the traditional Knowledge Management (KM) approach and the insurgent Social Media (SM) strategy for sharing information and tacit knowledge in the enterprise. Venkat observed:The ...

Mike Gotta moderated our next generation workforce panel this morning, where I participated alongside Scott Smith from IBM Global Services and Patti Anklam, a writer and consultant on social networking. Here are a couple of key take-aways from the discussion: What is the ''next generation workforce''? The next generation workforce will be ...

Last week, my colleague Dan Rasmus and I co-keynoted the Business Process Management conference in Orlando. Our talk was titled ''Millennials and the End of Process,'' and talked about how the characteristics and technology affinities of the current generation of younger workers posed a challenge to organizations using traditional business process ...

Travelling this week on some book-related business. First stop is the ACORD LOMA conference in Las Vegas, where I will be talking about a new study on Millennials, technology and the scramble for young talent in the insurance industry, commissioned by Microsoft from Insurity Research. See the Microsoft Presspass site for more info on the ...

(crossposted at the excellent career guidance site Brazen Careerist)  The terms ''tech-savvy'' and ''Millennial'' seem joined at the hip, like ''hopeless romantic'' or ''out-of-control pop diva.'' Of course, many romantics are nothing if not hopeful, some pop divas are models of good behavior, and not all Millennials are tech wizards - but ...

I just did my first radio interview for Generation Blend, on the Small Business Advocate show with Jim Blasingame (link to be posted as soon as I get it). Jim is a great interviewer and did his best to drag the story out of me, but as much as I tried to be crisp and prepared, I'm not sure I came across clearly with the three messages to help small ...

Although it's important to get people of all ages on the same page with technology in today's workforce, the issue becomes really important over the next 10 years. Right now, organizational leadership roles that correlate to experience and seniority are monopolized by Boomers (age 46-62); mid-career managerial and emerging leadership positions ...