The Future of Work Consortium met last month in London, Singapore and Mumbai, India, for Phase 2 of the programme discussing the risks that companies face in preparing for the future.

The Future of Work research consortium brings together academia and business professionals around an online community portal, face-to-face events and a series of webinars.

The consortium has brought together 200 executives from global organisations including American Express, AkzoNobel, Boehringer Ingelheim, BT Global Services, Centrica, Cisco, Infosys, Kraft Asia Pacific, KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group, Mahindra & Mahindra, Manpower, Ministry of Manpower (Singapore), News Corp, Nomura Group, Novartis, O2 Telefonica, Randstad, RBS Group, Royal Shell Group, Save the Children, SingTel, Standard Chartered Bank, Swisscom, Tata Consultancy Services, Thomson Reuters, Unilever, Waitrose and Wipro.

London Business School’s Professor Lynda Gratton, who leads the consortium, said: “We have asked over 3,000 executives from across the companies to rate 20 ‘Future Proofed Areas’ in terms of their current capability and future importance.

“The three most prevalent identified risk areas are open innovation, generational cohesion and deep collaboration.”

For more on these risk areas, Recruiter spoke with Gratton at the event and she gives her views on recruitment in the future in the next issue of Recruiter, 9 February.