Open Assembly Collective Call Recap – May 14, 2020
During this week’s Open Assembly Collective community call we discussed: How can we work together to help organizations adopt open talent models?
May 14, 2020
Independent Workers Can Fill In Your Skill Gaps—Here Are The Three Strategic Questions To Be Asking When Using Outsourced Talent
Open talent is a phenomenal solution to moving businesses forward in an era of rapid digital transformation. Tapping into this growing workforce segment means considering new worker-company relationships from all sides. This is something all businesses will need to consider at some point.
Mar 09, 2020
3 Myths and Truths About Open Talent Platforms
Open talent communities are growing rapidly to meet demands for general and niche skills. In our recent 2020 trends report we explored this trend.
Mar 04, 2020
Platforms in the $2B Open Talent Market are Thriving—Here’s Why
Can you remember the first time you hired someone—or a service—online? I can barely pinpoint that time, myself. The thing is, open talent platforms or “talent communities” have been around for decades (yes, plural). But until recently many companies showed reluctance to make them a significant part of their workforce/talent strategy.
Mar 02, 2020
Are Blended Open Talent Teams Right for Your Business?
Open talent strategies and horizontal cross-functional teams are replacing traditional vertical hierarchies and siloed organizational models. But change can be hard.
Feb 27, 2020
Are Old Corporate Structures Handicapping Your Talent Strategy?
Most businesses today have structured hierarchies and operate in a silo. A model in which workers start at entry level and slowly advance over many years. Open talent models offer a radical, and often impactful, departure from this old school way of doing things. Is your business experimenting with open talent?
Feb 27, 2020
Will robots replace us? Probably not—but the changes are still big
To say that technology is changing the workplace is a huge understatement, as you know. As technology-enabled solutions replace jobs, others are created—new roles, skills, and relationships between talent and businesses are forming in the process.
Feb 18, 2020
Get Ready For Accelerating Changes In Work Structures
Open talent doesn’t solve everything, but businesses that are taking a team-oriented, challenge focused, and flexible approach to talent are seeing big gains. Find out why in Open Assembly’s Future of Work 2020 Trends Report.
Feb 11, 2020
How One Role Helps Businesses Radically Reinvent Workforces
In the future of work, which is now, there’s a new type of person necessary to success. Call them crowdsourcing whisperers—or open-source evangelists. You can’t automate their influence on culture.
Sep 13, 2019
Four Ways To Prepare For The Future Of Work
Conversation about the future of work is everywhere, but who really knows what that means, and who can help guide us into that future? This is the work I’ve been doing at Open Assembly and also in my role as Executive in Residence at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH).
Aug 27, 2019