Future-scape Your Business

As businesses reconfigure their operations for new economic, geopolitical, and social realities, HC leaders are focusing on building the right culture and context for workers to thrive. 

The Conference Board developed a framework to help HC leaders envisage what the future of work means for their business and people strategies. This framework allows firms to map out their own future-scape, based on their unique identity and business landscape. 

The four dimensions of a company’s potential future-scape include:

1. Business model(s) that enable a business to compete successfully and deliver value to customers and other stakeholders
2. Work the company performs to create this value
3. Workers who perform the work
4. Workplace where work takes place. 

At the center of the framework are the human constants that make up a company’s distinctive identity or DNA—its sense of purpose, values, culture, way of leading, the experience it provides to workers, and the learning that takes place on a collective and individual level. This DNA must determine leaders’ choices about how to meet and shape the future. Leaders need to be vigilant that major decisions on the future of the business remain true to corporate purpose and values. Adaptability is the driving force for creating the future-scape. 

For a deeper dive into how to activate this framework, see Future-Scape: Reimagining the Who, What, How, Where of Work.