Management
Professions
Community development plan coordinator
The profession appears after 2020
Professional engaged in organizing and supporting a dialogue between independent teams of producers, aligning their long-term goals with the common image of the future, and helping them define a programme of joint investments in production facilities and human resources. This represents a new level of project management. Future managers will have to coordinate the activities of project teams whose members are located in different countries.
Trends
Professional skills and abilities
Systems thinking (ability to define and work with complex systems, including system engineering).
Cross-industry communication skills (understanding of technologies, processes, and market conditions in different related and unrelated sectors).
Ability to manage projects and processes.
Multilingual and multicultural abilities (fluent English and knowledge of a second foreign language, understanding of the national and cultural context of partner countries, and understanding of job specifics in foreign industries).
Ability to work with teams, groups and individuals.
Creative abilities, developed aesthetic taste.
Production coordinator in distributed communities
The profession appears after 2020
Professional who consolidates an order and manages the activities of independent teams working within an industry community, to design, manufacture, and assemble a product to the client’s requirements.
Trends
Professional skills and abilities
Systems thinking (ability to define and work with complex systems, including system engineering).
Cross-industry communication skills (understanding of technologies, processes, and market conditions in different related and unrelated sectors).
Ability to manage projects and processes.
Lean manufacturing, production process management based on permanent focus on removing all types of waste, which implies involving every employee in the business optimization process along with maximum client focus.
Multilingual and multicultural abilities (fluent English and knowledge of a second foreign language, understanding of the national and cultural context of partner countries, and understanding of job specifics in foreign industries).
Client focus, ability to address customer requests.
Ability to work with teams, groups and individuals.
