The way we do business is changing as we embrace people and technology working side by side to grow businesses.
2020 will be remembered as a tipping point for technology acceleration. Automation is projected to erase 85 million jobs globally in medium and large businesses across 15 industries and 26 economies by 2025. While many are quick to point out that news jobs will be created, they are not being created at a rate that is as quick as jobs are being eliminated.
Skills – like being nimble, agile, faster decision making – learned during the pandemic must not be forgotten. Applying the leadership lessons learned during 2020 will help leaders flourish in 2021 regardless of the circumstances!
Businesses that are recovering from the pandemic and looking to achieve differentiation in 2021 must consider the unconventionally changing people, processes, products, and technology trends in their strategies.
-Rashmi Verma
As we move into 2021, the way we use this data will continue to drive innovation in healthcare. Looking into the future, healthcare is poised to become significantly more data-driven, allowing for more specific and more successful patient care at scale.
The expansion of 4G allowed for the growth of data-centric mobile applications like Uber by increasing download speeds up to ten times faster. 5G will again increase data speeds by a multiple of up to 15 times over 4G.
Cultivating multipliers in the risk function who actively engage with employees and multiply the power of risk management is instrumental for developing risk-aware and resilient organizations. In 2021, post-pandemic multipliers will need an additional skill of effectively energizing their stakeholders virtually.
“The first time someone loses a sale to someone who held a face-to-face meeting, Sales Leaders will have to reevaluate the impact of virtual versus face-to-face meetings in their business niche.”
Now is the perfect time for women to embrace being technoogy leaders and companies to mentor them for leadership roles.
The future is a world without passwords. Biometrics are safer and harder to hack.
Energy powers our connected homes, healthcare, smart cities, smart farm manufacturing, connected global supply chain, and data-driven business models.
