Posts Tagged collaboration
Notebook Review: Taking a mobile approach to in-office productivity
Posted by admin in cloud computing, collaboration, remote work on July 29th, 2010
Notebook Review: Taking a mobile approach to in-office productivity
Several years ago, Microsoft Corp. surveyed more than 38,000 office workers in 200 countries in an effort to find out just how productive these people were and to identify roadblocks to personal and team productivity. The results of the study painted a sobering portrait of office productivity, or the lack of it in most office situations.
Harvard Business Review: Leading Virtual Teams to Real Results
Posted by admin in collaboration, employees, virtual workforce on July 6th, 2010
Harvard Business Review: Leading Virtual Teams to Real Results
The reality of virtual leadership is apparent. Teams are increasingly spread across space and time, providing the benefit of obtaining talent anywhere in the world and allowing 24-7 work progression. However, virtual workers can feel a sense of isolation, and building bonded teams becomes more difficult when there are few opportunities to meet face-to-face.
Chicago Daily Herald: ‘Project Mosaic’ pieces together office space for Batavia businesses
Posted by admin in collaboration, office space, overhead on May 12th, 2010
Chicago Daily Herald: ‘Project Mosaic’ pieces together office space for Batavia businesses
A downtown Batavia office building recently lost a tenant, and so has space it needs to rent out. Proprietors of home-based and startup businesses have told the Batavia Main Street director they could use a little office space. The two needs may be met in a building at 201 Houston St. in downtown Batavia, in Project Mosaic.
Orlando Sentenial: Entering the E-Zone
Posted by admin in collaboration, office space, overhead on March 16th, 2010
Orlando Sentenial: Entering the E-Zone
Office vacancies could be boon for new business in Orlando. The so-called E-Zone links small startups with established downtown companies that have a spare office or two within their own suites. As a way to nurture the new businesses, host companies agree to rent the space at a below-market rate — or even barter free rent in exchange for services.
Harvard Business Review Column: Think Outside the Building
Posted by admin in collaboration, health care on March 2nd, 2010
Harvard Business Review Column: Think Outside the Building
Thinking outside the box is a popular metaphor for creativity. But recent major systemic challenges (the financial crisis, health care reform, and climate change, among others) require new ideas significantly bigger than a mere box. The greatest future breakthroughs will come from leaders who encourage thinking outside a whole building full of boxes.
Soapbox Media: Redefining the workplace
Posted by admin in collaboration, office space, relevance on February 9th, 2010
Soapbox Media: Redefining the workplace
Do office cubicals create a productive work environment? A couple of Cincinnati companies don’t think so. In fact, one organization laid out a cube farm in its original office space, and, over time, realized that many creative ideas got trapped inside these cubes. The bottom line, although not explicitly stated to me, cubes carried a high opportunity cost. They had to go. And along with them, a number of other office artifacts considered “conventional.”
Harvard Business Review Blog: Avatars in the Workplace
Posted by admin in collaboration, employees, virtual workforce, web conference on January 27th, 2010
Harvard Business Review Blog: Avatars in the Workplace
Verizon Business News: Study, Sponsored by Verizon and Cisco, First to Quantify Improved Performance From Advanced Collaboration
Posted by admin in collaboration on November 4th, 2009
“Based on this study, we see an era of advanced collaboration on the horizon. Organizations embracing unified communications and collaboration tools in an open, decentralized structure are enabling a more effective work style and cultivating a fertile ground for success. As organizations aspire to become advanced collaborators, even small steps taken along the way can immediately pay off.”
–Nancy Gofus, senior vice president of Global Business Products for Verizon