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Three conditions for sustainable careers
With careers lasting longer and technological evolutions going faster than ever, the key question for all HR policy makers is how to combine employability and workability.
Belgian companies take action in the transition to a circular and well-being economy
In these disruptive times, we need companies leading the way to a better post-COVID-19 world. That is why the AMS Sustainable Transformation Groups (ST Groups), launched two charters pooling companies working toward a circular economy and a well-being economy. On March 24, the founding companies signed the Circular Economy Commitment and/or the Good Work Goals charters during an online event and urged other companies to follow their lead.
The future of work: the impact of digitization and automation
The World Economic Forum predicts that 85 million jobs will disappear worldwide by 2025 because of automation. On the other hand, 97 million new jobs will be created, often requiring different skills. Belgium and Luxembourg are even in the world’s Top 10 automated countries. As an organization, how can you prepare for this shift? And how can you find out what impact digitization and automation will have on your employees?
Katrien De Langhe
AMS and NSX working together toward future proof digital transformation
Developing and disseminating top-notch knowledge and positively impacting organizations and society. That is what AMS and NSX are all about. AMS realizes this ambition through management education underpinned by state-of-the-art research. NSX, a UAntwerp spin-off, does so through research into, and valorization of, the innovative Normalized Systems technology. Both organizations are committed to step up their cooperation in the fields of Business & IT and digital transformation. A win-win for both parties and especially for the industry.
Kirsten Vanderplanken, PhD
The only way forward is going circular
In 2019 over 750 global experts and decision-makers were asked to rank their biggest concerns in terms of likelihood and impact. For the first time in the annual Global Risks Report, published in January 2020, the top five global risks in terms of likelihood are all environmental. All the more reason for going circular.
Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance
Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine a business without technology. Most industries are becoming "smarter" and more tech-driven. We live in the era of the "platform society." For example, Coursera has become the world's most prominent online educator, collaborating with over 200 leading universities and companies. Platforms are becoming increasingly powerful and concentrate on collecting more and more data to cross- or upsell services. Ranging from small individual tech initiatives to complete business models with intertwined supply chains and "Platform" based business models. New ways of working, such as Agile and DevOps, are introduced, leading to opportunities and unknown risks.
Innovations in workplace & organizational design: is the honeymoon phase abruptly coming to an end?
More and more companies are shutting down offices and allowing their employees to work from home. Hybrid work, or the combination of working from home, at the office or at a third location, is definitely on the rise. Ten years ago, hybrid work would have been unthinkable. In 2010, 15% of Belgian employees worked from home. Today, this is no less than 35%.
At the same time, more and more organizations are looking for new ways to respond more flexibly to customer and environmental needs. The classic, rather closed and bureaucratic hierarchy is giving way to a more open and dynamic organizational design. Innovative labor organization, self-management, network organization are all different names for the same movement.