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Great Places to Work
14 June 09 08:47 AM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
Microsoft has just won the #1 spot in the 2009 Europe’s Great Places to Work survey . President Jean Philippe Courtois called out a number of New World of Work initiatives that really showcased Microsoft’s exploitation of technology to enable dramatically Read More...
Gensler’s Modes of Work
31 March 09 02:24 PM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
One of the observations Edelman’s Robert Phillips notes is the segmentation into different workstyles. He speaks of the ‘podists’ and the ‘benchists’ describing sub-groups that have formed based on personal preferences for where and how they work. The Read More...
Dynamic Working Mums
16 February 09 07:02 PM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
Dynamic Work is all about preserving key assets : economic resources, environmental resources and social resources. Concerning the lattermost, Steve Doughty , Social Affairs Correspondent at The Daily Mail , has been running a number of pieces on attitudes Read More...
Attachment(s): Changing Gender Role Attitudes.pdf
Tomorrow's Leaders of Dynamic Workers
09 February 09 08:17 AM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
       The Institute of Leadership and Management (an organisation after my other blog’s own heart) on the demands and opportunities for a new generation leadership in an era of Dynamic Work. The report is titled ‘ Read More...
Community Productivity
31 December 08 09:04 AM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
Credit Crunching
26 October 08 05:33 PM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
Some compelling numbers on the economic imperative for dynamic work in the imposing economic conditions from insurance company RSA highlighted by Katie Ledger in her Portfolio Working blog . “When asked about the prospects for their businesses during Read More...
Dynamic Meetings
11 October 08 09:27 AM | brucelynn | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
Gas prices encourage telecommuting
20 September 08 11:42 AM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
Good piece from MSNBC on telecommuting subtitled ‘ Employers reconsider traditional in-the-office work week’ looking at the economic drivers to more flexible work. “Some employers are reconsidering the traditional five-days-in-the-office Read More...
BT Workstyle
16 September 08 06:30 PM | brucelynn | 1 Comments   
Speaking of partners, whitepapers and workstyles, BT has published a sterling case study on its own Flexible Working web site called ‘ Sustainability through Flexible working - BT Workstyle’ . “Happier BT people are enjoying a better Read More...
Accenture’s ‘Green IT – Beyond the Data Centre’
13 September 08 02:07 PM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
Dynamic Dragon
27 July 08 12:17 PM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
The emerging realisation of business benefits to flexible work is being touted by one of the champions of emerging businesses, Dragons Den’s James Caan in last month’s Sunday Times piece titled “ Technology is the key to cutting your Read More...
Portfolio Work
06 July 08 12:47 PM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
Last week 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 Read More...
Home is Just the Job for Workers
22 June 08 12:49 PM | brucelynn | 1 Comments   
A little while back The Sunday Times did great piece on remote and flexible working: “ Home is just the job for workers ” (subtitled ‘ A growing number of companies are adopting more flexible employment practices for their staff ”) It highlighted the Read More...
The Long Drive
31 May 08 01:35 PM | brucelynn | 0 Comments   
My Microsoft colleague Terry Smith recounts a humorous tale about superfluous travel. He had a meeting in Bristol with a customer which he struggled to get to driving from his home in Warwick about 3 hours away. He finally arrived in a rush and quite Read More...
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Virtual Parallel
24 May 08 09:41 AM | brucelynn | 1 Comments   
Curiously, and perhaps not coincidentally, the same dynamics moving towards distributed working in the flesh-and-blood, bricks-and-mortar workplaces is also taking place in the bits-and-bytes of digital world. One of the hottest concepts or trends in Read More...
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