Direction now also leads to specializing because of open market that advertise individualism and uniqueness, peoples nowadays are skillful and knowledgeable enough to do whatever possibly matters where they do not need to spend money to get what they need, they could perform on their own. First, what mean by specializing anyway? Look backward of 20 years ago in production era where major market players and demand are on products, things created from raw materials and we have products. Well, life moves on where peoples see the importance of innovating technology to outstand from the crowd and win in this competitive market. Some smarter ones they creates niche products that not even public realizing it that they needs one; Yet, they successfully market their niche product by educated the market that “You” need one. And what next era will be? Imagine demanding customers will never disappear and they will gradually increase their expectation. So as a service provider or manufacturer, you would need to gradually improve your product and service, look into every possible areas to identify where can outperform better than your competitor. That’s where you eventually emphasizing on specialize area. And consumer expectation will be towards your specialty and expertise. Another higher level from specialty and expertise, people may decide which to buy based on branding. Well, that’s another huge topic to talks about.
Take a very good example, IT industry that I am currently worked on. You may realize as well more and more processes and more specialize/ specific areas were being identified such as incident management in IT service industry to restore a normal service operation as quickly as possible and to minimize the impact on business operations. To delight a customers become more challenging, one single mistake could possibly leads to a company big trouble. And that’s where many specific processes and management are in place to make sure things are in control and meet expectation as well. Jobs like consultants, specialist or expert are exist compare to last time no such demand or jobs exist. Perhaps in the future cleaner could be a high paid job with job title cleaning specialist/ cleaning consultant/ advisor J In fact, its happening now already….
Today hire a plumber may cost you few hundreds for a job. But in the future may be a few hundreds per hour just like lawyer or doctor nowadays. In fact in some areas over at developed countries already happens these. More specific, a plumber may be call as sanitary specialist in the future. So, self-employed volume would gradually increase in very near future and more people would value skills and knowledge than anything else. Drawbacks of these trends might be poorer people might suffer. There might be huge groups of people who can’t effort it and this eventually leads to trends of DIY. Certainly the DIY market would rise, with open source and informative on internet, people could just grab whatever knowledge they want on DIY. Moreover, many internet portal that provides the facilities that accommodate them to perform whatever DIY projects that possible, for instance DIY handicrafts, DIY web sites, DIY computer programs, DIY designers, DIY draftsman, DIY plumber, DIY electrician, etc…. This will cause great impact to small and medium industries. Imagine in the very near future, almost all people who knows to create own web sites, write little programs to ease their life, designer of their own, song writer of their own, everyone could sing well and plays well too. Nevertheless, existing industry will still survive as there are still groups of people who can afford it and willing to pay for people to do for them. In fact, it’s a huge group of people as human nature of lazy and ignorant. For instance, billboard list with top singer will still; May be you score 1 million fans today but tomorrow all fans goes to other singer. It’s a tuff game back then.
Take a very good example, IT industry that I am currently worked on. You may realize as well more and more processes and more specialize/ specific areas were being identified such as incident management in IT service industry to restore a normal service operation as quickly as possible and to minimize the impact on business operations. To delight a customers become more challenging, one single mistake could possibly leads to a company big trouble. And that’s where many specific processes and management are in place to make sure things are in control and meet expectation as well. Jobs like consultants, specialist or expert are exist compare to last time no such demand or jobs exist. Perhaps in the future cleaner could be a high paid job with job title cleaning specialist/ cleaning consultant/ advisor J In fact, its happening now already….
Today hire a plumber may cost you few hundreds for a job. But in the future may be a few hundreds per hour just like lawyer or doctor nowadays. In fact in some areas over at developed countries already happens these. More specific, a plumber may be call as sanitary specialist in the future. So, self-employed volume would gradually increase in very near future and more people would value skills and knowledge than anything else. Drawbacks of these trends might be poorer people might suffer. There might be huge groups of people who can’t effort it and this eventually leads to trends of DIY. Certainly the DIY market would rise, with open source and informative on internet, people could just grab whatever knowledge they want on DIY. Moreover, many internet portal that provides the facilities that accommodate them to perform whatever DIY projects that possible, for instance DIY handicrafts, DIY web sites, DIY computer programs, DIY designers, DIY draftsman, DIY plumber, DIY electrician, etc…. This will cause great impact to small and medium industries. Imagine in the very near future, almost all people who knows to create own web sites, write little programs to ease their life, designer of their own, song writer of their own, everyone could sing well and plays well too. Nevertheless, existing industry will still survive as there are still groups of people who can afford it and willing to pay for people to do for them. In fact, it’s a huge group of people as human nature of lazy and ignorant. For instance, billboard list with top singer will still; May be you score 1 million fans today but tomorrow all fans goes to other singer. It’s a tuff game back then.
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Yupz, the trend is moving toward that direction of Specializing. Sometimes its important to be really specialize in order to survive this industry. Dont forget that recession is coming along as well. So we all gotta be prepared for it and saved up for the rainy days.
Well, to me, it's all about relying people on their specialize skill. We can't be totally 'jack of all trade'. No doubt that we can do the basics, but if we need to get the best out of it, we can't have amateur skills but to let an expert handling it so that we could finish it faster and better.
The corporate line is really harsh at times. Usually its survival for the fittest. But don't be dragged into it and be lose any integrity. Maintain a steady path and do your best no matter what happens and be positive about things and I'm sure things will be alright. :)
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