In Jeffrey Baumgartner’s newsletter last year, he wrote about unconventional meetings. I happened to read the article again today, and it has some great ideas for re-imagining effective work: Most likely, you have a process of booking meeting rooms (at least if yours is a larger company), sitting […]
Diebold, an ATM manufacturer, features in a recent profile in Bloomberg BusinessWeek for its approach to finding and hiring senior executives: Unlike a typical chief executive officer, Diebold CEO Andy Mattes can’t just stroll down the hall at his company’s headquarters in Canton, Ohio, to confer with his […]
Re-imagining effective work at #Intranets2015 with @collabguy. #sketchnotes #intranet #futureofwork pic.twitter.com/IL47a6rix6 — Rebecca Jackson (@_rebeccajackson) May 20, 2015 The above is the sketchnotes version of my talk on Re-Imagining Effective Work that Rebecca drew at Intranets 2015 in Sydney.
I presented the opening keynote last week in Sydney at the Intranets 2015 conference. My talk was on Re-Imagining Effective Work (slides above). The presentation advocates the need for thinking beyond the immediate impacts of new technology on work practices, to the deeper and more long running impacts […]
In the Australian Federal Budget last week a good chunk of change was set for digital transformation across the Australian government: The federal government has set aside more than $95 million to establish the Digital Transformation Office inside Malcolm Turnbull’s Department of Communications, part of a $255 million […]
I have but 10 hours left in the office before boarding a couple of planes (not simultaneously, mind you) and heading to Sydney for the Intranets 2015 conference hosted by Step Two Designs. The conference is on Wednesday and Thursday next week (May 20-21), with a post-conference workshop […]
Unify recently published the results of its New Way to Work Index: The first research wave for the Unify New Way to Work Index ran between January and February 2014 and surveyed more than 300 executives across the globe focusing on the habits and constructs of successful teams. […]
In a recent article in Fortune Magazine, Adam talks with an ex-Stanford Professor about re-thinking online education. I found the line about comparative performance most fascinating: Fortune: You’ve been a Google executive and Stanford professor. Where did you get the idea for Udacity, your online-courses startup? Sebastian Thrun: […]
During a call yesterday afternoon I referred to a case study I had read from Cisco about how they re-imagined the role of a sales specialist, and the various benefits they had achieved by doing so. The other party asked for the reference – please see How Cisco […]
Over the past few days I have been reading Dave Coplin’s book, Business Reimagined: Why work isn’t working and what you can do about it (2013). The animation above presents a pretty decent summary of Dave’s book, but if you want a deeper look at his ideas, the […]
