The Power Skill Wave: Are You Prepared For Tomorrow's Business World?

Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries.

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Technology is on the move, advancing by leaps and bounds. These rapidly evolving technologies are creating an “innovative idea environment” unlike any we have seen before. This time, there are multiple technologies on the move at the same time. Some of these technologies play to (and off) of one another. Combining those aspects creates a fertile environment far larger and more complex than anything throughout history—and for a broader spectrum of organizations.

Without question, that makes creativity and innovation—two “power skills” in today’s global environment—vital to organizations. With over a dozen high-impact technologies being talked about by a number of analysts coming into the marketplace in the next few years, their innovative application and inclusion across business, government and society will begin to take place worldwide. This will make projects bringing all of this into reality the norm for inclusion in tomorrow’s business.

This is the basic six-step process for today’s emerging technology revolution, which is making businesses experience increased pressure to compress the amount of time for delivery:

Innovative Technology Evolution Lifecycle

Here’s an exercise: Draw a BLUE circle around where you are positioned on the lifecycle model. Now draw a RED square around where your …

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