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  • Where We Are Available

    Microsoft Outlook needs an enhanced ‘location’ capability in the Calendar capability. Right now Outlook Calendar is the first and most used ‘collaboration’ by customers, but its focus is on coordinating *when* people are available.  A critical second...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 09-08-2009
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  • Dynamic Business Centres

    The most logical question after encouraging one to abandon one’s fixed office space , if the public venues like cafes and libraries don’t suit one’s taste and maybe ‘home working’ doesn’t quite suit, then ‘Where...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 12-10-2009
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  • Quality Time

    When I worked at Microsoft , some of the more cynical managers tutted some of the work-from-home practices as ‘shirk from home.’ Curiously, the sincere sentiment among the staff was that home was often the only place where quality work got done. Staff...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 01-29-2010
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  • Crofting

    Dynamic Work asserts that how one brings together different people and roles as well as physical assets can be very flexible. But can the actual work content of an individual person be flexible? Or does their role or contribution have to be a constant...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 03-05-2010
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  • Make Office Better

    I originally posted this a few months ago on the old blog, now all the more timely with the latest franchise release of new packaged technical innovation in the form of Windows 7 to hit the streets yesterday.  I first came upon www.makeofficebetter...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 10-23-2009
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  • What to call it…

    Welcome to the 'Dynamic Work' blog set up to explore the issues and opportunities around increasingly flexible workplaces driven by the confluence of business needs and technological empowerment. But beings as a I work in marketing, the first...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 08-31-2009
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  • First Kill All the Office Buildings

    A while back I met with our Victoria Melville of PR firm Inferno (now setting up her own firm Melville Communications ) who told me about their plans to move offices from their currently White City location. My first question was, ‘Why have offices at...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 09-05-2009
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  • The Apprenticeship Problem

    One of the most prevalent obstacles I hear in terms of highly skilled knowledge workers adopting more flexible working practices is what I would refer to as the ‘apprenticeship problem’. At a Working Families event, a partner at a London law firm explained...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 09-26-2009
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  • Great Places to Work

    Microsoft has just won the #1 spot in the 2009 Europe’s Great Places to Work survey . President Jean Philippe Courtois called out a number of New World of Work initiatives that really showcased Microsoft’s exploitation of technology to enable dramatically...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 10-14-2009

  • Where We Are Available: TripIt

    The ‘ TripIt’ tool has taken off in the past year as a tool to publish and share one’s calendar which does starts to set the foundation for ‘where we are available’ collaboration (‘ Where We Are Available’ , ‘ Make Office Better’ ). It does require a...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 02-24-2010
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  • European Great Places to Work Double

    As I have commented a number of times, one of my most profound influences spurring me to set up Dynamic Work Ltd. was my experience working at Microsoft . I not only studied, but I had the privilege of living the ‘New World of Work’ as Microsoft earnestly...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 07-17-2010
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  • Dynamic Meetings

    Bill Gates also used to comment that the power of the Internet was not in doing the same stuff in a different way (ie. taking orders over the web versus taking them by phone), but rather the interesting stuff was doing those things that you wouldn’t otherwise...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 09-20-2009
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  • Virtual Parallels

    Curiously, and perhaps not coincidentally, the same dynamics moving towards distributed working in the flesh-and-blood, bricks-and-mortar workplaces is also taking place in the bits-and-bytes of digital world. One of the hottest concepts or trends in...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 09-04-2009
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  • The Long Drive

    My Microsoft colleague Terry Smith recounts a humorous tale about superfluous travel. He had a meeting in Bristol with a customer which he struggled to get to driving from his home in Warwick about 3 hours away. He finally arrived in a rush and quite...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 09-07-2009
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  • Het Nieuwe Werken

    Microsoft has been pushing the boundaries of flexible working for years now obviously leaning heavily on the empowerment that mobile, productivity and collaboration software enable. Last year I highlighted some of the measures that the UK office had introduced...
    Posted to Dynamic Work by Dynamic Work on 10-13-2009
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