[Challenge:Future] All-Harmony
The document discusses an organization called All-Harmony that aims to balance innovations, traditions, progress, and the environment. It identifies problems of overpopulation, pollution, and resource scarcity in the future and proposes that industries like healthcare, agriculture, education, science, IT, and space tourism will dominate. All-Harmony envisions offices that unite modern technologies with nature, such as plants absorbing pollution and daylight illumination. The organization would provide breaks for employees to communicate without devices and engage in physical activity. Companies will attract top talent through individualized approaches, educational opportunities, and corporate celebrations. Education will focus on skills like cross-cultural competence, technologies, languages, and ethics to prepare students for jobs of the future.
[Challenge:Future] All-Harmony
- 1. All-Harmony Innovations & Traditions Progress & Environment Technologies & Nature Team Name: Createam Team Leader: Veronika Denisova Team Members: Darya Maltseva, Natalia Kuznetsova Country: Russian Federation School: St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University
- 2. Problems of the Future • Over-population • Air, water, soil pollution • Lack of resources • Some jobs carried out by people will be performed by electronic devices which brings unemployment • High temps of life • Lack of personal communications • Cities and suburbs will displace forests • Lack of physical motility • Genetically modified food
- 3. Any Problem Can Be Turned to an Opportunity So, the following industries and sectors will dominate: • Health Care/Medicine • Agriculture • Education • Science: energy, biochemistry, bioengineering • IT technologies • Cosmic Tourism
- 4. Typical Organization will Unite Modern Technologies and Nature • Office will be full of plants, which will absorb CO2 and radiation of multitude of electronic devices • There will be daylight illumination in offices • In business-centers there will be special “calm- rooms” for breaks, where it will be forbidden to use computer and mobile devices for people to communicate in reality • There will be a sport room in every organization
- 5. Working Day • Some tasks can be accomplished at home • For communication with clients and colleagues informational technologies will be used • In offices there will be special “social” and “sportive” breaks, during which people can communicate with each other in reality and do some physical exercises • Friendly and employee-oriented environment in the will improve people’s abilities and mood for working
- 6. How will Companies Attract and Retain Top Talents • Individual approach to every employee (including schedule, workplace, tasks) • Group journeys to other countries • Regular educational trainings, paid by the organizations • Corporative presents and celebrations
- 7. Preparing good specialists for stated industries starts with Perfect Education The following skills and competencies will be needed: -sociability -cross-cultural competence -knowledge of modern IT-technologies -technical skills -ability to learn fast -responsibility -social responsibility -2 and more foreign languages -moral and business ethics
- 8. School Education (Perfect Day) • 9:00-11:30 technical subjects • 11:30-13:00 lunch break, games and activities • 13:00-15:30 humanities Technical subjects include working in laboratories, group projects Humanities will include meetings with business- specialists, artists, musicians Teachers should make pupils become interested in self- education
- 9. Higher Education • The main attention will be paid to research and development • Studying will include visiting potential workplaces and meetings with professionals • Obligatory short internships twice a year • Electronic resources with all necessary studying materials and working information
- 10. Adaptation and Retraining • Since some jobs carried out by people will be performed by machines, people should be prepared for losing their jobs. According to that government will provide psychological adaptation for future and retraining for getting new skills Let’s act now to live in Perfect Future!