Mainstream Collaboration
This is the year we'll see the scrappy startup mentality toward collaboration truly hit the mainstream — and the beginning of the end for the "job description" as we know it.
Even within established, legacy organizations, employees can no longer expect to be judged solely on how well they fulfill their own job descriptions. The game has changed — now, setting others up for success has become a key performance metric as well, as formerly disparate departments such as IT and the line-of-business collide and new hybrid roles like the "citizen developer" emerge.
In this new environment, employees that stay within the confines of their job and department boundaries will stagnate, while those that push boundaries in the pursuit of revenue growth will thrive. Ultimately, the new value being placed on cross-collaboration is heralding the end of the traditional "job description" as we know it.