30 ◾ Beyond the Days of the Giants
merging of the economy’s demand for increased value and nonlabor-depen-
dent succession has created a defining moment in our profession. It is the
moment that affords us the opportunity to make a sustaining contribution to
filling that value-management void that is now growing in the global economy.
But to respond to that opportunity to help our clients design, build, and
maintain their own value-creation infrastructures as the living, breathing,
and relatively permanent systems they need to be, we’ll have to provide
well-coordinated process and labor systems designed to cope with a shrink-
ing, impermanent, and specialized labor supply.
This is our problem today, but it’s also our clients’ problem tomorrow. ...