Skills , Work

and Enterprise

A New Future

Jobs, Skills and Enterprise – a new futureElaine Browne and Paul Taylor

4 Game Changers

Economy

Generation Y the and Ageing PopulationTechnology

Welfare Reform

Prof. Ernesto Sorelli:

“Right now, in your community, at this very moment, there is someone who is dreaming about doing something to improve his/her

lot.

If we could learn how to help that person to transform the dream into meaningful work,

we would be halfway to changing the economic fortunes of the entire

community”

In the UK

New Service Economy• Reconfigured relationships.

• Mash-up business models.

• Consumer increasingly powerful.

• Innovation is a key differentiator.

• Convenience & Quality expected.

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• Global relationships• Learning• Sourcing ideas• Co-creation• Recruitment• Building relationships• Community engagement• Networked business models

New networks

Source: The GFF Pulse expert panel survey

Life expectancy climbing• Men born in 1985 can

expect to live to 91 …all existing projections are too low.

• Upper forecast - 97.Cass Business School - 2009

• Those with access to advanced technologies can expect a healthy life beyond 120 years Institute for Alternative

Futures

And we’re living longer lives Human life expectancies have

the potential to reach 500, or possibly even 1000.

“The first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already”

Dr. Aubrey de Grey B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. Born 20th April 1963 -

New era of mass communication

• Today's Internet has 1.73 bn users. Internet World Stats.

• World population is 6.7 bn people. • By 2020 Internet will have 5 bn

users National Science Foundation in the U.S for one predicts

• Utility of the internet is deepening at a faster rate.

• By 2012 the internet will be 75 times its size in 2000 with over 400 times the traffic due to the rise of online video.

• Most will access internet via mobile by 2020,’ Mark Walsh, December 15th 2008

• http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=96642 • http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39193696,00.htm • http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11665/comms/telecoms-industry-sees-opportunity-in-tough-times

The digital divide

• Half of social tenants never used the internet

• Half of those not online are also classed as disabled

Problems of digital exclusion

• Offline households miss out on £560 savings annually

• 90% of new jobs require ICT skills

• Estimated that 60-70% of education and work related opportunities were advertised online only last year

But……• Over 70% of those in in lowest income decile own a

mobile phone

• Amongst age range 16-39 – mobile phone ownership – even in lowest decile – ranges from 96% to multiple device.

96% of them have joined a social network

Gen Y’ers at university spend longer on social networks than in lectures

In the UK

VisionRealise Untapped Potential in All

MissionDevelop that Talent

ActionMatch that Talent to Opportunities

Opportunities 4 Employment

• Bid For By Managers• Recruited by Colleagues• Paid for by Bromford

More Powerful PR than More Powerful PR than Inside HousingInside Housing

Identifying the right skills

Fast Food Skills Development

A New Customer Deal

Talent Management as mainstream service offer

‘A social enterprise is a business with clear societal objectives that trades to generate income.Surpluses are reinvested back into the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.'

BackgroundWhat is a Social What is a Social EnterpriseEnterprise??

Housing Associations and Social Enterprise

Housing Associations and Social Enterprise

• Housing Associations in general function along the lines of Social Enterprises.

• They operate as businesses but have an explicit social purpose.

Measured through Social Accounts, Social Impact Measurement,

Social Return on Investment

Not for Profit More than Profit For Profit

BackgroundWhat makes a Social What makes a Social Enterprise distinctive?Enterprise distinctive?

Firstly they are fundamentally fundamentally businessesbusinesses - directly involved in producing goods or providing services to a market.

They have explicit aims that explicit aims that benefit benefit their workforce, local community or other groups, such as job creation, training or the providing of local services.

Social Leadership

Case Study – From Closed Shop to Start Up Business

Turning idea’s upside down

1872 2002

4 Game Changers

Economy

Generation Y the and Ageing PopulationTechnology

Welfare Reform

Skills , Work

and Enterprise

A New Future

Keep in touch and share what we all do next

paul.taylor@bromford.co.ukelaine.browne@bromford.co.uk