Sparking Thoughts is the format through which Sparq brings leaders, managers and experts together to explore how work, organisations and leadership are changing.
In Brescia, we did not discuss what might happen to work. We tried to understand what is already happening.
Last May, we brought managers, leaders and experts together around a question that concerns everyone: how is work really changing?
No pre-packaged slides. No easy answers. Just questions that are difficult to ignore once they have been asked.
The first edition featured three voices with different but complementary perspectives: Monia Cusini, Head of People and Head of HR Advisory at Sparq; Giuseppe Torre, Founder and Director of DataHubs and lecturer at the Pontifical Antonianum University; and Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffè of SDA Bocconi.
Three signals from Sparking Thoughts that keep returning in our conversations
Skills move faster than professions.
Many of the job descriptions we use today describe work that is already changing.
AI is not HR’s real problem.
The problem is continuing to manage work using categories designed for a world that no longer exists.
The more powerful technology becomes, the more valuable the things that cannot be automated become.
Context. Judgement. The ability to choose a direction.
If these questions are already on your desk, it is probably worth continuing the conversation.
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We collected the insights that emerged during Sparking Thoughts in a report dedicated to the future of work, organisations and leadership.