Institute For The Future

Future Skills Enterprise: Getting Fit for a New Kind of Workforce

The world is building a new kind of workforce: globally connected, technologically enhanced, and ready for change at a moment’s notice. 

Over the next decade, organizations and the people who work in, for, and with them will need to acquire powerful new skillsets in five peak performance zones: Reputation Management. Human-Machine Collaboration. Pop-Up Enterprise. Sensemaking. Resilience. 

Today, these skillsets are already redefining peak performance for enterprises of all kinds. They are not yet widely distributed—and certainly not equitably distributed. But over the next decade, they will become the new fundamentals for success. 

This map is your guide to getting your organization and its workforce fit for this future.