The way to work: Space, place and technology in 2016

This report from the Orange Future Enterprise coalition shows that organisations need to plan for multiple futures to stay competitive. It argues that businesses must prioritise managing intellectual property and flexibility of its employees to control organisational change in the face of forces of rapid change, low predictability and high risk. We predict four potential scenarios for the future but most organisations will include elements of all world of work.

Improved work-life balance - the role of ICT

A lobbying paper which argues that Information Communications Technology such as mobile technology and broadband, is one of the most significant drivers for improved work-life balance.

Working Progress

How to reconnect young people and organisations? A disconnect exists between young people and the organisational cultures they encounter in the workplace. This disconnect has emerged because of a series of rapid shifts in both the supply of jobs available from employers and the demand for jobs, or expectations of employment, on the part of graduates. This report proposes a series of recommendations for schools, universities, government and organisations themselves aimed at reconnecting employers and young people in the name of productive and fulfilling work.

Organisational Lives

In autumn 2005, Orange Business Solutions founded the Orange Future Enterprise Coalition, a group of industry and technology experts, academics, consultants and independent thinkers from across public and private sectors. In combination with the founding of OFEC, Orange Business Solutions commissioned original research on the meaning of mobile data and its relevance to today’s organisations. This report presents just some of the output from these projects with a focus on seven reflections on the future of mobile data.

Disorganisation

Why future organisations must ‘loosen up’. Orange and DEMOS commissioned a survey of UK business leaders and the results were illuminating. The authors are predicting that high-value workers will be increasingly attracted to more loosely-structured companies. At the same time, organisations are facing external pressures. This report looks at how organisations can manage the desire among employees for a greater sense of 'disorganisation' in an ever more competitive and complex environment.