The Skills-Based Organisation
A New Operating Model for Work and the Workforce
The most fundamental building block of work—the job—could be hampering many organisations. Instead, many are now applying skills-based models to meet the demand for evolving business priorities.
Organisations are moving towards a new approach
According to a global Deloitte survey of more than 1,200 professionals, organisations are increasingly placing skills, rather than jobs, at the centre of the way work gets done.
By decoupling some work from the job – either by atomising it into projects or tasks or broadening it so it is focussed on problems to be solved, outcomes to be achieved or value to created – people can be freed from being defined by their jobs to being seen as whole individuals with skills and capabilities that can be fluidly deployed to work matching their interests and evolving business priorities. And by basing people decisions on skills more than jobs, organisations can still have a scalable, manageable, more equitable way of operating. We call this new operating model for work and the workforce “the skills-based organisation.”
Download our research findings
To explore how organisations are thinking about the move to skills-based organizations and how they are operationalising it, we conducted both quantitative and qualitative research – surveying 1,021 workers and 225 business and HR executives around the world.
Do ‘jobs’ really define what we do?
The short answer is no. Jobs are quickly giving way to more fluid ways of working. We found that 63% of current work being performed, falls outside of people’s core job descriptions. 81% say work is increasingly performed across functional boundaries, and 36% say work is increasingly being performed by workers outside of the organisation, who don’t have defined jobs, at all. We believe the answer is the Skills-Based Organisation, a new operating model for work.
Webinar: Dbriefs: The skills-based organisation: A new model for the future of work
Participants will explore how SBOs can support a wide range of talent strategies and business decisions and discover how SBOs can fuel innovation and agility that unlocks workforce potential.
Podcast: The Skills-Based Organisation: Capital H Podcast
Participants will explore how SBOs can support a wide range of talent strategies and business decisions and discover how SBOs can fuel innovation and agility that unlocks workforce potential.
Capital H: Human Capital Blog
Disruptive business, technology and societal forces are causing unprecedented change in the workplace. Our human capital blog, Capital H, offers insights and learnings on the changing nature of work and humanity’s evolving role in it.
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