Dynamic Work
Dynamic Work Move
TechNet has hosted the ‘Dynamic Work’ blog since its inception in February 2008. TheTechNet platform...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/28/2009
Power of Fluidity
Some people discount ‘flexible working’ as some trendy new management fad or an earthy-flaky...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/24/2009
Ferrari of Hammers
The brass-tacks business case for Dynamic Work is pretty straight forward – save money on...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/20/2009
Make Outlook Better
Came upon www.makeofficebetter.com from Steve’s post, “I had a look at MakeOfficeBetter.com over the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/14/2009
Missing the First Pitch
The Washington Post carried a poignant illustration of the more subtle, but very palpable social...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/08/2009
The Third Place
When I start to talk to people about reducing the fixed costs of fixed desks and fixed office space,...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/02/2009
Energy Flows
The benefits to Dynamic Work are economic, ecological and social. One area of business that affects...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/24/2009
Transuming
At the heart of Dynamic Work lies the notion that key resources (like office spaces and desks), need...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/19/2009
E-Lance Economy
The Microsoft Netherlands joint research piece with Erasmus University also cited the seminal work...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/14/2009
Working Environments
One of the strongest points to the Microsoft New World of Work approach is its recognition of the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/07/2009
From Workplace to Anyplace
Executive summary from a recent joint research project between Microsoft and the World Wildlife Fund...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/29/2009
Tired Dragons
In honour of Father’s Day, I thought I would pay homage to inspiration by my father, Rev. Edwin...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/21/2009
Great Places to Work
Microsoft has just won the #1 spot in the 2009 Europe’s Great Places to Work survey. President Jean...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/14/2009
Het Nieuwe Werken
Microsoft has been pushing the boundaries of flexible working for years now obviously leaning...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/08/2009
Telecommuting Tips
CIO magazine ran an article ‘7 Things the CIO Should Know About Telecommuting’ with great pointers...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/30/2009
Who Benefits
Recently I attended a symposium organised by the British American Business organisation at the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/21/2009
Dynamic Education
The ‘workplace’ for our children is school and this institution suffers many of the same issues as...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/10/2009
N=1 and R=G
I had the chance to listen to business management gurus C.K. Prahalad at the recent London Benchmark...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/30/2009
Free Agent Nation
Seth Godin’s latest book ‘Tribes’ offers up a passionate plea for more dynamic work fuelled by the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/13/2009
The Costs of Commuting
The Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford has released a study on “The Costs of...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/03/2009
Gensler’s Modes of Work
One of the observations Edelman’s Robert Phillips notes is the segmentation into different...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/31/2009
Edelman’s Velcro Office
The first place to start with Dynamic Work is applying the principles of dynamism to the workplace...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/24/2009
People Oriented Architecture - Components
Admittedly, the adapted definition of SOA is a pretty high level, but a number of SOA architects...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/12/2009
People Oriented Architecture - Definition
As I introduced in ‘Virtual Parallels,’ one of the intriguing developments inspiring my...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 02/25/2009
Dynamic Working Mums
Dynamic Work is all about preserving key assets: economic resources, environmental resources and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 02/16/2009
Tomorrow's Leaders of Dynamic Workers
The Institute of Leadership and Management (an organisation...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 02/09/2009
Community Productivity
Microsoft has been talking about the ‘New World of Work’ for several years now and as time and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 12/31/2008
The Apprenticeship Problem
With people out of the office, how do you pass along highly specialised and subtle knowledge? One of...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 12/18/2008
Management 2.0
Gary Hamel, renowned author of ‘Leading the Revolution’, has just come out with a new work,...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 12/14/2008
Dynamic Cities
Microsoft UK recently released a study done by The Future Laboratory’ called ‘Microsoft:...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 12/01/2008
Futurelabs Report - Work and Mobile Cities
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Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/24/2008
Dynamic Operation
I recently spoke at a meeting of Microsoft Alliance Partner Hitachi Consulting on the topic of...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/03/2008
Credit Crunching
Some compelling numbers on the economic imperative for dynamic work in the imposing economic...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/26/2008
Dynamic Meetings
Bill Gates also used to comment that the power of the Internet was not in doing the same stuff in a...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/11/2008
Dynamic Licensing
One of the big motivations for starting this blog on ‘Dynamic Work’ was my observations...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/05/2008
Gas prices encourage telecommuting
Good piece from MSNBC on telecommuting subtitled ‘Employers reconsider traditional...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/20/2008
BT Workstyle
Speaking of partners, whitepapers and workstyles, BT has published a sterling case study on its own...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/16/2008
Accenture’s ‘Green IT – Beyond the Data Centre’
Accenture, one of Microsoft’s top partners, has long distinguished itself in Business Process...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/13/2008
Digital Nomads
Dell has just started a blog on the dynamic workstyle called ‘Digital Nomads’ (thanks...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 09/06/2008
Electricity Saviour
At the heart of most Green IT initiatives is saving of electricity. These objectives are noble and...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/03/2008
Dynamic Dragon
The emerging realisation of business benefits to flexible work is being touted by one of the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/27/2008
Employers of the Future
One of the aspects that enthuses me about the area of ‘Dynamic Work’ working at...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/13/2008
Portfolio Work
Last week I had the chance to meet up with Katie Ledger to discuss her growing examination of...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/06/2008
Saving the Collapse of the Middle Class
With $140/barrel crude oil and melting ice caps, the focal justifications for increased flexibility...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/30/2008
Home is Just the Job for Workers
A little while back The Sunday Times did great piece on remote and flexible working: “Home is just...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/22/2008
Where We Are Available
Outlook needs an enhanced ‘location’ capability in the Calendar capability. Right now Outlook...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/09/2008
The Long Drive
My Microsoft colleague Terry Smith recounts a humorous tale about superfluous travel. He had a...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/31/2008
Tech Savvy Heavy Hitters
I presented at a senior management board for a major investment bank on mobile technology a few...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/30/2008
First Kill All the Office Buildings?
A while back I met with our Victoria Melville of PR firm Inferno who told me about their plans to...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/25/2008
Virtual Parallel
Curiously, and perhaps not coincidentally, the same dynamics moving towards distributed working in...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/24/2008