My company is going through one of it’s regular turns – where we want our people to be working in the office – in a shared location. There’s lots of advantages It helps us collaborate There’s lots of studies that show it’s better (I’ll add a link if I ever find them) There is, of […]
Category archives: Management
Does Knowledge Management matter?
This is the question posed – but not answered – in the brilliant post On whether Knowledge Management matters by Brad Hinton. I was alerted to this by a timely tweet from @johnt He posits: Based on my own observations and discussions with people, perhaps the only people who care about KM are the KM-ers […]
Homeworking builds teamwork – and communities
Homeworking. Good for everyone? While looking for some reference material the other day, I came upon a 7 year old report on teleworking in BT [PDF from SUSTEL]. I commented in a tweet “I still think teleworking is positive for co. and people“ It is quite important to me to share this view, as in […]
Trust your people… let them free.
Having a quick glance at Hugh Macleod’s excellent blog, from last week, my attention was caught by his humanification bit where he chats about a previous posting: 4. You’ve already done “efficient”. We’re living in a post-efficiency world now. We already know how to make things better, cheaper and faster than the previous generation. We […]
Fast food outlets & professional communities
Why can’t we have a chip shop? Having come back from a lovely holiday in Boston & Iceland, I wondered if I had any inspiration for a blog post. I do, a little. In Boston, I stayed near to Quincy Market, an old market hall, now jammed full of fast food outlets. There must be […]
So, how's your outsourcing going?
If you look back, perhaps you can occasionally learn what the road ahead may bring. JP Rangaswami, MD of BT Design used to work at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and was a believer in outsourcing – as are we all in this day and age. He had some useful warnings, listed here: http://www.watersonline.com/public/showPage.html?page=129216 But what about […]