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Yes, it is back to school season. But Seth Godin’s incisive plea for such restructuring of education suggests that it may be ‘ Back to (the wrong) school’ season. Education factories fill Office Worker factories. Part of many Dynamic Work transformations includes a range of re-skilling and education...
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My piece ‘ Dynamic Business Centres’ highlighted the surge in availability and diversity of places for people to go and work in and around London. But the innovation and trend doesn’t stop at the M25. Creative workspaces are opening up all around the UK. Creative Boom has recently assembled its own Top...
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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 in my current job. Sometimes I like the solitude...
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Microsoft has long pioneered innovations in the workplace through the use of technology and the current trend of ‘Dynamic Work’ is no exception. It was my personal work in this area during the most recent years of my tenure at Microsoft where I got an up close perspective on the accelerating changes...
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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 can I work?’ The fact is that business centres...
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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 the only two places in the work are home and work...
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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 Nicole Brown in a partner blogcast called ‘Enabling...
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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 have been able to do without the capability...
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One of the big motivations for starting this blog on ‘Dynamic Work’ was my observations of the parallels between the changing nature of how computers are and can work (more flexible, more modular, more dynamic) and how humans do. While organisations can change the processes, architecture, operations...
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Accenture , one of Microsoft’s top partners, has long distinguished itself in Business Process Re-engineering as a foundation to IT innovation and with that expertise have been a leading proponent of Service Oriented Architectures. So it is not surprising to see Accenture leading the way with a...
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Dell has just started a blog on the dynamic workstyle called ‘ Digital Nomads ’ ( thanks Hugh ). It’s strapline is “ Where do You work? I work everywhere. These days ‘where’ you work really has little significance to ‘what’ you do. Increasingly, each of us faces no boundaries, whether they are geographic...
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I had the chance to meet up with Katie Ledger to discuss her growing examination of Portfolio Work (tagline – ‘ How to get money, meaning and magic into your life’ ). I know Katie from her work with Microsoft UK and her activity in the UK blogosphere and so I had been following her increasing focus on...