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September 3, 2018

Top 10 Organizational Effectiveness Trends for 2025

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What if you had known years ago that:

  • AI would be a critical member of your team

  • Employees use mobile devices to access the majority of information

  • Remote working goes from a perk to an expectation

How would this information have changed your priorities? Would you have hired other people, invested in alternative projects, or measured success differently?

For the last 10 years, we have dealt with an accelerating pace of change in just about every facet of business, from the globalization of markets to increased speed and diversity of competition, and from changing customer demands to shifting employee requirements.

This is why Aspirant has published a new eBook, Organization Effectiveness for 2025 - Are You Ready? How the World of Work is Changing, written by Aspirant's Organizational Effectiveness expert: Judy Johnson, Ph.D. This book helps set the stage for what’s to come and how you can change and prepare your organization to be effective and win over the next decade.

From futurists to technical experts, everyone agrees the world of work is going to change by 2025. That is not revolutionary news, as work constantly evolves and technology accelerates that evolution.

The bad news about these changes? The pace and extent of change is only going to continue.

And the good news? We can see the changes coming and can prepare accordingly.


Why is preparing your organization for 2025 a priority?

  • All signs point to continued shifts in how companies will operate in the coming years.
  • The same issues that have been plaguing us to date are accelerating.
  • Focusing on today’s and tomorrow’s issues will get you caught up, only to be left behind.
  • Building toward being competitive in 2025 will transition your workforce to the agile, skilled workforce you need for tomorrow.

Companies who prepare for future shifts are the ones that survive and thrive. There are a handful of mega trends that cut across all markets; they are consistently discussed and commonly agreed on by strategists across disciplines. When taken together, however, they show a drastically different future state of work, and also create a compelling reason to take action today.

Aspirant’s Organizational Effectiveness team has analyzed social, business, technology, and management trends and found unique elements necessary for companies to successfully compete in the next decade. To give a sense of the research contained in the ebook, here are 5 of the 10 trends that will challenge an organization's effectiveness in 2025:

  1. Reputation Over Revenue: Employees, customers and investors want social responsibility, environmental accountability and increasingly social activism from companies.

  2. Diversified Power: In 2025, organizational power will neither sit solely with company executives at corporate headquarters, nor with the leaders of the largest business units.

  3. Career Path Reshaped: The employees’ career path will no longer be vertical, or even-staggered vertical movement.

  4. Local Globalization: While globalization continues with companies expanding their footprints around the world, there will be an increased focus on the local market.

  5. Upended Pyramid: For decades we have witnessed the unproductive practice of companies promoting their best and brightest technicians into management roles.

Download Our Ebook Organizational Effectiveness for 2030

 

For the complete list of trends, including in-depth insights and research as well as tactics and next steps to help your organization prepare for the future, request Aspirant’s eBook, Organization Effectiveness for 2025 - Are You Ready? How the World of Work is Changing.

Judy partners with executives and leadership teams to engage and inspire employees in a way that delivers sustainable strategic results. She brings deep expertise and creative ideas to solve organizational effectiveness issues and closely collaborates in a way that builds internal capabilities. Judy has spent over 25 years consulting in a variety of industries, bringing her expertise in behavior to a wide range of organizational issues including organizational behavior change, leadership, change management, culture and engagement.

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