Realizing the future of work, now
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The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by gathering contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. -
With enterprise design thinking, teams can work more efficiently, because they stay aligned and keep people at the center of their work. It’s a proven way to come to better solutions, faster.
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Collective impact initiatives bring people together in a structured way to achieve social change.
No single organization is responsible for any major social problem, nor can any single organization cure it.
Collective impact initiatives typically have five conditions that together produce true alignment and lead to powerful results: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations.
How will we rebuild the economy and create a future of work that benefits everyone?
The Future of Work Grand Challenge is a collective impact program designed to help workers access well-paying and sustainable jobs by changing the playbook for job training and placement.
The Challenge aligns the diverse interests of foundations, workforce development organizations, startups, policymakers, and workers under a collective impact model.
This $12 million challenge crowdsourced promising workforce innovations, co-designed pilot programs in five regions of the United States, and created a playbook to update the public workforce system for the challenges of our technology-driven economy.
Patrick Diamond led key elements of the Future of Work Grand Challenge while working at MIT Solve.