Emerging Technologies that
Impact the Workforce
Leveraging Talent at all levels of the
Organization is a Business Imperative
focused on Innovation and Performance
Melvin Greer
Advanced Software Chief Architect
Senior Research Engineer
Advanced Technologies Office
November 12, 2008
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Innovation and Increased
Performance
Direct connection between inclusiveness,
meaningful work, and employee
productivity
There is a direct relationship between
integration of inclusion into business
processes and employees’ commitment to
organization
Employee
Satisfaction &
Engagement
Retention
Input &
Innovation
Business
Results
Customer
Satisfaction
& Retention
We need to prepare ourselves to attract a disproportionate
share of the talent in order to have the skills available to
sustain and grow our business.
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Manpower vs. Capability
Captain Patricia Cole, USN, Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations
QUINCY CA-71
Commissioned: Dec 1943
Complement: 1,142
Sensor Range: 60 miles
Weapons Range: 18 miles
Battle space Awareness: 60 miles
CAPE ST GEORGE (CG71)
Commissioned: June 1993
Complement: ~380
Sensor Range: 256 miles
Weapons Range: 800+ miles
Battle space Awareness: Theater Wide
CG (X) 71
Complement: ↓ ≈ 150
Sensor Range: 500+ miles
Weapons Range:
Range: 1000+ miles
Battle space Awareness: Global GIG
Training demand ↑ ↑
Capability ↑ ↑
Non-Minority
Non-Minority
Non-Minority
African American
African American
African American
Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic
Asian/Other
Asian/Other
Asian/Other
“Workforce 2020”
Workforce 2050
Need less people, more talent, and better access to that talent.
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DoD Core Competency
Kristen Baldwin, Director, Systems and Software Engineering
Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
Analysis of Program Failure - Inadequate software architectures,
design, development discipline, and organizational competencies
• Issue: Software Growth
– Software Requirements Growth: 80% of system functionality
[CSIS]
– Software Overruns: 50% of SW efforts [Standish Grp]
• Issue: There is a choke-point in the supply of top-tier software
program managers, architects, and domain experts in the nation
• Top Software Issues and Project Areas
✫
Requirements
✫
SE/SW Integration
✫
Human Capital
✫
SW Sustainment
✫
SW Testing
✫
SW Quality Metrics
✫
SW Estimation
SSE FY08/09 Thrust Area: Software Engineering Competency the focus on software engineering as a critical element of complex
systems acquisition
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Key Issues
• How are workforce trends and
forecast changes influencing the
ability to succeed?
• What emerging and disruptive
technologies impact workforce and
talent management?
• What are the global forces shaping
workforce issues projected 20
years out?
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Workforce Trends and Forecast
•Growing Demand for Credible
Leaders
•Abundance of Excellent
Employees vs. Scarcity of
Credible Leaders
Workforce
Change is
occurring faster
Workforce
Change is
making a bigger
Impact
Past
Today
•Attrition Pressures Will Accelerate;
Zero to 5 Years; “Hot Jobs”
•Salary Inflation & Employer Of
Choice Return
•Employees Will Retire Later
•Retirements Will Not Hit Critical
Mass Until After 2020
Competition for Talent is a
Global Business Issue
•Valuing Diversity / Fostering
Inclusion Becomes Essential
•Minorities Become the Majority
(15 -20 years)
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Workforce is more Diverse
Percent Growth Civilian Labor
Force 2002-2012
• Change Occurring Faster Than
Prior Projections
60
50
40
• By 2012, Minority Groups Will
Comprise 35% Of Labor Force—
will Be The Majority Between
2025-2030
30
20
10
0
White
African Amer
Hispanic
Asian
Minorities As Percent Of U.S. Labor
Force
20
15
10
5
0
1992
2002
Hispanic
African Amer
2012
Asian
• Hispanics Have Become The
Largest Minority Group –Two
Years Earlier Than Projections
• The percentage of working-age
people with a disability is 12.1%
or 2,026,800 individuals
Increased Penetration Of
Under-represented Groups
Into Engineering Is
Imperative
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Emerging Technologies
Impacting Workforce Planning
% Software Content in Solution
Software
Coding vs.,
Composition
•Competency and
Qualification vs.
Certification
•Semantics, Context
Awareness, Autonomic
Computing
•User Contribution and
Experience
•1) Enterprise
Architects
•2) Software Engineers
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Transformational Priority Matrix
For transforming
products, services
and commerce —
Web 2.0, 3-D printing
and virtual
worlds
For driving deep
changes in the role
and capabilities of IT
— cloud computing,
SOA and
context delivery
architecture
For their ability to
drive major
advances in
automation — mobile
robots and RFID
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Seven Revolutions 2025
Global Strategy Institute at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
1.
Population - Between 2007 and 2025, the population of the developed world is expected to grow 3%, while the
population of the developing world is expected to grow 49%
2.
Resource management and environmental stewardship - The Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment (2005) estimates that between 5 and 20 percent of global freshwater use exceeds long-term accessible
supplies.
3.
Technological innovation and diffusion - The U.S. biotechnology industry’s revenue in 2004 was
$42.7 billion, 78.2 percent of the global total.
4.
5.
The development and dissemination of information and knowledge - By 2015, 80 percent
of people currently in the workforce will remain. Yet, 80 percent of current technology will be replaced with new
technology to which existing workers must adapt.
Economic integration - The richest 2 percent of the world’s population now owns more than 50 percent of
global wealth.
6.
The nature and mode of conflict - According to the GAO, there are 120 countries or groups developing
information warfare systems
7.
The challenge of governance - Americans, 18-25 years old, are significantly more likely to consider a
company’s citizenship practices when making purchasing, employment, and investment decisions
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