Who We Are
Our Firm
The Future of Work. . .unlimited is a research and advisory firm with a single mission: bringing the future to work. We work with committed change leaders to create flexible workplaces that leverage people, attract talent, and save money.
We help our clients invent their own futures by exploring and interpreting the changing nature of work, the workforce, and the workplace.
We transform visions and ideas about the future of work into tangible action programs that produce bottom-line results. We can show you how to reduce your cost of workforce support by 40% or more.
We lead conversations and produce collaborative learning experiences that produce rich scenarios of alternative futures. And we develop practical strategies for change and performance improvement.
Contact us today for a free initial conversation about how we can help you take charge of the future of work in your own organization.
Our Founder:
Jim Ware is a former Harvard Business School professor who has spent his entire career helping clients invent their own futures by exploring and interpreting the changing nature of work, the workforce, and the workplace. He facilitates conversations and collaborative learning, builds scenarios of alternative futures, and transforms ideas and insights into bottom-line results.
He is currently the founder and Executive Director of The Future of Work…unlimited. He also serves as Global Research Director for Occupiers Journal Ltd., and is a Partner with The FutureWork Forum.
Previously, Jim held senior management positions at several leading-edge professional services firms, including KPMG (now Bearing Point), Computer Sciences Corporation, Unisys Corporation’s Information Services Group, and The Concours Group, where he led a number of futures investigations and served as Executive Director of the HR Concours, a membership organization limited to Chief HR Officers.
Jim is the author of the chapter on change management for the recently-published IFMA Foundation book Work on the Move, (October 2011). He was a co-author and the lead editor for Cut It Out! Save for Today, Build for Tomorrow, published by the IFMA Foundation in 2009.
Corporate Agility (2007), co-authored with Charles Grantham and Cory Williamson, addresses the need for organizations to coordinate and integrate HR, IT, and CRE/facilities to develop new business capabilities for competing in a flat, global economy. Corporate Agility was named one of the ten best business books of 2007.
Jim is Editor in Chief and a principal writer for the monthly newsletter Future of Work Agenda and posts regularly on the Future of Work blog. He also serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Institute of Human Resource's Contract Workforce and Talent Exchange Program.
He holds PhD, M.A., and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University and an MBA (With Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. He lives and works in Berkeley, California.
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