Ep. 94: Barry Matthews, CEO of Open Assembly, Future Of The Freelance Economy

Leaders, we need to talk about how organizations can scale their freelance usage. The freelance economy V1 & V2 was built for entrepreneurs and small businesses, not large companies. The problem as Barry Matthews, CEO of Open Assembly and 20+ year vet describes it, is that Enterprises don't know which partner to turn to, and don't know how to scale a model that's new, risky, and has no existing best practices. The impact is that while 90% of leaders are prioritizing freelancers according to HBR, seldom few leaders are succeeding at scaling their organization beyond small pilots and small working teams. Barry and Open Assembly is building one of the leading solutions to scale freelance talent across large Enterprises through a single Enterprise entry point, what they call the gateway. If you remember the guest Mina Bastawros of Airbus, he said the future of the freelance economy is enabling enterprises the Amazon experience of engaging talent. One place for multiple marketplaces, multiple skills, yet a seamless and convenient end user experience. In this episode we'll discuss how to do this, along with the key themes below: How outsourcing has become skill sourcing, and the freelance economy is just the digitization of sourcing The Enterprise business case, specifically speed, size, and elasticity of accessing talent The Enterprise challenge...(1) which platform for what need, (2) we're new and risky with no existing processes Why there won't be ONE marketplace Enjoy! http://humancloud.work/barry-matthews