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In my introduction to Dynamic Work, I speak of the surging business mega-trend towards flexibility in the current years... “Dynamic Work is becoming as much of a business imperative for the new millennium as was embracing the PC in the 80s and embracing...
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...
Accenture and Vodafone collaborated on a report titled ‘ Carbon Connections’ which looked at a range of business strategies for carbon reduction. Given Vodafone’s mobility focus, the report naturally centred on a number of distributed and remote working...
Ever more terms keep cropping up to describe the new workstyles of the digital age. Steve Clayton’s post a while back referred “ Co-working .” “ I am increasingly a "digital nomad"...Increasingly I find myself working from home or a hotel room...
One of the first issues I faced over a year ago is what to call this ‘thing’ . This trend, this approach. Certainly, there is no shortage of buzzwords being coined regularly to capture different dimensions to ‘Dynamic Work’. CNN has done a piece which...
MSNBC featured a fine piece titled “ Chatty Workers Are Best Telecommuters ” (thanks Dr. Bret ) with a delightfully colourful introduction... “For years the workplace commentariat has been nattering about the no-collar workplace. Companies will hire brains...
I was describing the concepts behind ‘Dynamic Work’ at an event last week and one of the attendees described it as an ‘anti-neutron bomb.’ The ‘ neutron bomb’ was a concept floated in the seventies as a military weapon which killed people, but left buildings...
When I start to talk to people about reducing the fixed costs of fixed desks and fixed office space, the most common response is, “Oh, you mean home working...” Well, yes...and no. Part of the challenge of Dynamic Work is the too widely held view that...
At the heart of Dynamic Work lies the notion that key resources (like office spaces and desks), need not be fixed, but are more efficient, accommodating and eco-friendly when flexible and...well...dynamic. Part of what is driving the trend to Dynamic...
The Microsoft Netherlands joint research piece with Erasmus University also cited the seminal work of Thomas W. Malone Robert J. Laubacher’s coining the term E-Lance Economy over 10 years ago in their Harvard Business Review article, ‘ The Dawn of the...
In honour of Father’s Day, I thought I would pay homage to an inspiration of my father, Rev. Edwin Lynn, to my interest in Dynamic Working. Dynamic use of spaces where people come together must be in my genes. You see, 36 years ago, decades before carbon...
One of the observations Edelman’s Robert Phillips notes is the segmentation into different workstyles. He speaks of the ‘podists’ and the ‘benchists’ describing sub-groups that have formed based on personal preferences for where and how they work. The...
An essential component to Dynamic Work is applying the principles of dynamism to the workplace itself. Much as there is too much wasted office space (lit, powered, air conditions, secured) and time in centralised offices, ‘the office’ can...
As I introduced in ‘ Virtual Parallels ,’ one of the intriguing developments inspiring my examination in ‘Dynamic Work’ is the parallels between increasingly flexible approaches to resourcing both knowledge work and computer work. In the latter realm...
Microsoft has been talking about the ‘ New World of Work’ for several years now and as time and conditions have progressed so has the vision. An updated presentation came from Katherine Randolph, Josh Henretig and...
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