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Dynamic Work Move

TechNet has hosted the ‘Dynamic Work’ blog since its inception in February 2008. TheTechNet platform...

Date: 08/28/2009

Power of Fluidity

Some people discount ‘flexible working’ as some trendy new management fad or an earthy-flaky...

Date: 08/24/2009

Ferrari of Hammers

The brass-tacks business case for Dynamic Work is pretty straight forward – save money on...

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...

Date: 08/14/2009

Missing the First Pitch

The Washington Post carried a poignant illustration of the more subtle, but very palpable social...

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,...

Date: 08/02/2009

Energy Flows

The benefits to Dynamic Work are economic, ecological and social. One area of business that affects...

Date: 07/24/2009

Transuming

At the heart of Dynamic Work lies the notion that key resources (like office spaces and desks), need...

Date: 07/19/2009

E-Lance Economy

The Microsoft Netherlands joint research piece with Erasmus University also cited the seminal work...

Date: 07/14/2009

Working Environments

One of the strongest points to the Microsoft New World of Work approach is its recognition of the...

Date: 07/07/2009

From Workplace to Anyplace

Executive summary from a recent joint research project between Microsoft and the World Wildlife Fund...

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...

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...

Date: 06/14/2009

Het Nieuwe Werken

Microsoft has been pushing the boundaries of flexible working for years now obviously leaning...

Date: 06/08/2009

Telecommuting Tips

CIO magazine ran an article ‘7 Things the CIO Should Know About Telecommuting’ with great pointers...

Date: 05/30/2009

Who Benefits

Recently I attended a symposium organised by the British American Business organisation at the...

Date: 05/21/2009

Dynamic Education

The ‘workplace’ for our children is school and this institution suffers many of the same issues as...

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...

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...

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...

Date: 04/03/2009

Gensler’s Modes of Work

One of the observations Edelman’s Robert Phillips notes is the segmentation into different...

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...

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...

Date: 03/12/2009

People Oriented Architecture - Definition

As I introduced in ‘Virtual Parallels,’ one of the intriguing developments inspiring my...

Date: 02/25/2009

Dynamic Working Mums

Dynamic Work is all about preserving key assets: economic resources, environmental resources and...

Date: 02/16/2009

Tomorrow's Leaders of Dynamic Workers

       The Institute of Leadership and Management (an organisation...

Date: 02/09/2009

Community Productivity

Microsoft has been talking about the ‘New World of Work’ for several years now and as time and...

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...

Date: 12/18/2008

Management 2.0

Gary Hamel, renowned author of ‘Leading the Revolution’, has just come out with a new work,...

Date: 12/14/2008

Dynamic Cities

Microsoft UK recently released a study done by The Future Laboratory’ called ‘Microsoft:...

Date: 12/01/2008

Futurelabs Report - Work and Mobile Cities

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Date: 11/24/2008

Dynamic Operation

I recently spoke at a meeting of Microsoft Alliance Partner Hitachi Consulting on the topic of...

Date: 11/03/2008

Credit Crunching

Some compelling numbers on the economic imperative for dynamic work in the imposing economic...

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...

Date: 10/11/2008

Dynamic Licensing

One of the big motivations for starting this blog on ‘Dynamic Work’ was my observations...

Date: 10/05/2008

Gas prices encourage telecommuting

Good piece from MSNBC on telecommuting subtitled ‘Employers reconsider traditional...

Date: 09/20/2008

BT Workstyle

Speaking of partners, whitepapers and workstyles, BT has published a sterling case study on its own...

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...

Date: 09/13/2008

Digital Nomads

Dell has just started a blog on the dynamic workstyle called ‘Digital Nomads’ (thanks...

Date: 09/06/2008

Electricity Saviour

At the heart of most Green IT initiatives is saving of electricity. These objectives are noble and...

Date: 08/03/2008

Dynamic Dragon

The emerging realisation of business benefits to flexible work is being touted by one of the...

Date: 07/27/2008

Employers of the Future

One of the aspects that enthuses me about the area of ‘Dynamic Work’ working at...

Date: 07/13/2008

Portfolio Work

Last week I had the chance to meet up with Katie Ledger to discuss her growing examination of...

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...

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...

Date: 06/22/2008

Where We Are Available

Outlook needs an enhanced ‘location’ capability in the Calendar capability. Right now Outlook...

Date: 06/09/2008

The Long Drive

My Microsoft colleague Terry Smith recounts a humorous tale about superfluous travel. He had a...

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...

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...

Date: 05/25/2008

Virtual Parallel

Curiously, and perhaps not coincidentally, the same dynamics moving towards distributed working in...

Date: 05/24/2008

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