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Dynamic Working can take all forms. It’s not just the digital tools, or human work practices, or work spaces that can be made more flexible and dynamic. The physical tools of desk, chairs, work surfaces, tables and a whole lot more can also be dynamic. Some of the best examples are inspiringly demonstrated...
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While Dynamic Work can entail flexibility of many forms , one of the most prevalent is ‘ Geographic’ mobility . One of the major constraints to such mobility is simply lugging stuff. If you have heavy tools you depend on, it is sometimes easier for you to go to the tools than for the tools...
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Management By Walking Around’ (MBWO) has been meandering through the corridors of management gurudom for at least as long as I have been in the business these past two decades. Supposedly, it was first introduced by HP founders Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett and later popularised by management guru Tom...
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As Dynamic Work evangelises jettisoning fixed office spaces to save money, carbon and productivity, I get two very typical responses... Where do my people go to work then? What do I do with my office space I have then? London New Enterprise has created a portal that helps to answer both of those questions...
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I caught Steve Clayton’s piece on the beta release of the Outlook Social Connector . I had hoped that it would finally bring about the ‘Where We Are Available’ functionality that I have been championing for years now (‘ Where We Are Available’ , ‘ Make Office Better’ , ‘ Where We Are Available: TripIt...
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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 manual process of checking out the TripIt alerts of...
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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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One of my first posts was on the topic of ‘ Where We Are Available’ . It focused on the ‘geographic’ side of flexibility and the tools needed to bring people together for collaborating in an efficient manner. In the little over a year since that post, the principles of ‘where we are available’ have risen...
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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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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.com from Steve’s post, “I had a look at MakeOfficeBetter...
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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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CIO magazine ran an article ‘ 7 Things the CIO Should Know About Telecommuting’ with great pointers on this tactic for exploiting Dynamic Work... 1. Telecommuting Saves Money. Truly . 2. Telecommuters Really Can Be More Productive . 3. Telecommuting Doesn't Work for Every Individual . 4. Trust Your...
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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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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 dimension of collaboration is and will become...
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It’s not just a range of pressures that are driving people to these new modes of work, but it is also a wealth of enablers that have emerged to unleash the potential for resolving these pressures in unprecedented and innovative ways. Asynchronicity - The operative production model of the 20 th Century...