A brain-enhanced world

By 2018, businesses will routinely use microchips to enhance employees' abilities. Chips will be implanted in brains to enhance memory or knowledge, but may also monitor and control behaviour. Companies should think about the use and misuse of such technologies.

A world ruled by employees

Successful organisations will realise their strength lies in their workforce. Shareholders will lose their right to all the profits and companies will hand power to employees. Many organisations will be designed as "guilds" whose mission is to support employees. This development may spread slowly or suddenly through angry protest. Managers should prepare by rethinking business and managing power structures prudently.

A world under cyber attack

Terrorists will attack the internet and computer systems, halting work globally with a virus that diffuses through corporate firewalls, deleting huge quantities of business data. Safety measures turn out to be insufficient - businesses lose organisational memories, intangible assets and intellectual property. Companies should prepare red-alert detection systems to raise a "virtual dam" against attack. Multiple back-ups in intellectual property banks are recommended.

A world run by robots

Robots with artificial intelligence will be put into management positions. They will not necessarily have heads and arms. Software decision-making - already used in financial management - will increase dependence on systems. Regular updates on such developments and building up a knowledge base about the use and misuse of them may be an appropriate precaution.. A world without the rat race Young people will refuse "meaningless jobs" on a mass scale. They will choose ethical careers and not the rat race. This may tiptoe into the world of work, or it may...explode into an angry protest movement against the establishment. Managers might avert the revolution by sharing power with the younger generation.

Słownik

to enhance employees' abilities - aby doskonalić umiejętności pracowników

companies should think about the use and misuse - firmy powinny zastanowić się nad tym,

of such technologies co może oznaczać używanie oraz nadużywanie tego typu technologii

"guilds" whose mission is to support employees - cechy (rzemieślnicze), których zadaniem jest wspierać pracowników

this development may spread slowly - ta tendencja może ujawniać się stopniowo

managing power structures prudently - rozsądne rozdzielanie odpowiedzialności

a virus that diffuses through corporate firewalls - wirus, który przedostaje się przez firmowe zabezpieczenia

detection systems to raise a "virtual dam" - systemy wykrywające i wirtualne zasieki

managers might avert the revolution - menedżerowie mogliby uniknąć tej rewolucji