Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA) commissioned The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to undertake a study into how the role of Australia's senior managers is likely to change between now and 2020 and to identify the skills and attributes that will be needed to respond to those changes. This report builds on a previous study prepared by BCG in the early 1990s for the Industry Taskforce on Leadership and Management Skills (Karpin Committee), which provided a snapshot of the Senior Manager in 2010._x000D_
The following powerpoint slides summarise the 2020 Vision - The Manager of the 21st Century - outlining how the role of Australia's senior managers is likely to change between now and 2020 and to identify the skills and attributes that will be needed to respond to those changes._x000D_
The presentation is summed up in the following quote from Jon Nicholson - Senior Vice President of BCG: We believe that to succeed in the years up to 2020, executives will need to master a range of hard and soft skills. Amongst other things, they will require to manage multi-generaional teams, the creativity to measure staff performance on outputs rather than inputs, and a high degree of technical and functional expertise in addition to their general management credentials._x000D_
This paper is available as a PowerPoint presentation only._x000D_
FORMAL CITATION:Larkin, D and Hondros, E, 2006. 2020 vision - the manager of the 21st century, in Proceedings New Leaders' 2006, pp 1-12 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).