How the Future Works

In this week’s episode Eleanor and Barry discuss the world of internal talent marketplaces – an area of open talent that doesn’t always get the attention that it deserves. 

Much of the public discussion on open talent focusses on the way digital talent marketplaces are disrupting the world of freelance work, but that same technology can equally be applied to internally employed talent and can play an incredibly valuable role in balancing internal skills and demand across an organisation and as a result improving efficiency, reducing and avoiding recruitment costs and improving employee career paths.

The team are joined by Iman Fadaei founder and Managing Director of Whitelance a technology company helping businesses to create their own digital marketplaces, whether internal, external or a hybrid of both and also the marketplace technology that powers www.humancloud.uk

The team discuss the benefits of internal marketplaces, the potential for marketplaces to cross the internal, external and employed and freelance boundaries and learn more about Whitelance and their ability to set up a marketplace in a day!

www.whitelance.uk

www.re-source.uk

www.humancloud.uk

In this week’s episode Eleanor and Barry discuss the world of Virtual Reality!  They discuss both the fun, recreational, entertainment use of VR as well as the professional, enterprise applications of the latest incarnations of VR technology. 

They are joined by Neil Fox, CTO of Hexaware, emerging tech expert, open talent expert and VR afficionado and they discuss the world of VR from a business, open talent and societal perspective, it’s a fascinating discussion which covers the basics, the fun stuff and some of the potential implications of life in the real world when the virtual world goes mainstream!

www.hexaware.com

www.re-source.uk

www.humancloud.uk

In this week’s episode Eleanor and Barry discuss how open talent marketplaces are beginning to be used at scale by global enterprises as well as by business services and technology services providers who are embracing open talent and open innovation models into their service delivery operations. 

The hosts are joined by Roland Rosevear from Freelancer.com’s enterprise team who provides some fascinating examples and stories that really bring this trend to life.  The team also discuss virtual reality and its potential to transform the way we work, the latest news from the open talent industry and Roland’s first and worst job – spoiler alert – paper boy and hospital cleaner!  It makes for another really entertaining and informative discussion on the wonderful world of open talent.

www.freelancer.com

www.re-source.uk

www.humancloud.uk

In this episode Barry and Eleanor Matthews discuss the world of consulting and the opportunities and challenges for this long established, traditional $600 billion profession.  To bring to life the different models at play and to discuss the world of consulting and open talent, Barry and Eleanor welcome Mike Berry Chief Commercial Officer of JDX Consulting.  JDX specialise in aligning bespoke, flexible resourcing and consulting services to financial services clients.

Mike sets what Barry and Eleanor hope will be a new trend for the podcast, in sending them delicious wine to enjoy whilst chatting.  To accompany the wine and alongside the discussion on consulting, the team discuss the challenge of over-working in open talent, the question of when a freelance worker is really an employee in disguise and of course find out more about Mike during a fun filled 5x10 round.

www.re-source.uk

www.jdxconsulting.com

In this episode Barry and Eleanor Matthews discuss what’s been happening in the wonderful world of open talent; including the GT&BSC’s Open Talent event, Microsoft and Linkedin’s plans to move into the open talent market and Uber’s supreme court ruling.  They also discuss Agile Talent over a glass of wine with Martin Boakes MD for Europe at Enate.

Agile Talent and the Martini model: any time, any place, any-where, any employment type – requires a level of orchestration and balance that only software can provide.  Martin explains how Enate’s orchestration software enables load balancing across geographies and worker types.

Martin also shares his first job and worst job, his cycling accomplishments and his and Eleanor’s obsession with fitness performance metrics

www.enate.net

www.re-source.uk

In this episode Barry and Eleanor Matthews meet 2 of the people who make the gig economy possible; the talent providing the services. 

They are joined by Joanna Hulks and Alexander Chekspir who both provide services in the human cloud, but in completely different ways.  Jo works on the Limitless gigCX platform www.limitlesstech.com answering text based customer queries in her spare time while bringing up a young baby and  Alex works on the Topcoder platform www.topcoder.com and has been taking part in and winning software challenges since he was at University.

They discuss the work they do, how they got into the gig economy and the benefits of being able to choose where and when they work; including in-between 3am baby feeding or on a beach in Brazil with a beer. 

Barry and Eleanor also discuss their introduction to the new social media app Clubhouse and pledge to start a new How The Future Works room – watch this space!

Barry and Eleanor Matthews discuss the various different terms that are used to describe the gig economy and provide a structure that helps to provide some much needed consistency.  They also discuss whether it’s possible to create effective teams when working remotely and digitally and when the team members are globally distributed and comprised of a multitude of different employment models.

They are joined by the amazing Laura Thompson from Phenomenal Training.  Laura is an expert in culture, change and communications and has been delivering change and leadership programmes through her business Phenomenal Training since 2008. She’s also an expert on robotics and AI and its impact on the way we work.  Laura has a background in human psychology, she is a Ted speaker an author a podcaster and an expert in creating high performing teams.

It was such a fun and engaging conversations that included Latitude Festival, Darwin, RARA, 4Cs, Pandas and Foxes!  Definitely one not to be missed

Barry and Eleanor Matthews kick off 2021 with a glass of wine and an inspirational chat with Aoibhe Cantwell the head of Legal, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Version 1.

The conversation covers the impact of the pandemic on Diversity and Inclusion, the importance of acceptance and belonging in the workplace, Version 1’s innovative Starts With A Name (SWAN) initiative, the pros and cons of D&I in the world of Open Talent and so much more besides.

It was such a fun, interesting and inspirational conversation and one that reminds us all of the importance of acceptance, belonging, diversity and inclusion across all types of work and every kind of worker

Useful Links

• www.version1.com
• www.startswithaname.net

This week Barry and Eleanor Matthews share a virtual cup of tea and discuss how talent platforms are being increasingly used to match the supply and demand of highly skilled expertise as they are joined by Emma El Karout the founder of on-demand HR platform One Circle

The conversation covers the latest news in Open Talent, including the WEF report on ‘The 4 things that will redefine the way we work by 2025’ and Harvard and BCGs recent report ‘Building The On-Demand Workforce’

Emma explains why she set up One Circle, the kind of work that the platform delivers through the community of highly vetted, experienced HR professionals from 48 countries, the new marketplace functionality and her plans for the future

The team also discuss Emma’s first and worst job and get some top tips for new lockdown box sets!

This week Barry and Eleanor Matthews share a virtual glass of wine and chat all things crowdsourcing, competitions and challenges with the amazing George Gallant from Topcoder

The conversation covers the latest news in Open Talent as well as how crowdsourcing challenges work, why companies are choosing them as a delivery method, who the challengers are and how they deliver value

George shares anecdotes, examples and stories to really bring the crowdsourcing challenge model to life.  He shares the parallels of crowdsourcing to cloudsourcing a decade ago and how once clients start the journey how rapidly they become hooked – he also shares how a certain very famous and successful business leader was once a member of the Topcoder crowd!

George also shares his first job and worst job and provides fascinating insight and anecdotes to really bring the world of crowdsourcing to life