This post in in honour of the How I Work series on Lifehacker that I really love to read Location: Lytham St Annes on the west coast of the UK Current Gig: Mainly workplace wervices strategy and optimisation One word that best describes how you work: Differently Current mobile devices:...
Sam asked me a couple of weeks ago to blog about my new Office. I’ve been resisting because I wanted to spend at least a month working in it before I felt ready to really comment on how it’s changed my life. Seems a bit of a bold statement “changed...
Challenges How do I ensure that users get their own personalised workspace How do I ensure that end user productivity impact is minimised during the migration How do I deal with some continued use of some local applications How do I ensure that my Virtual machines continue to be up...
VDI is a pretty cool for a whole host of use cases, but what we really need is a single infrastructure for virtual and physical PCs. We are nearly there: Citrix provisioning server can stream a base operating system to virtual and physical PCs Application virtualization and streaming can stream...
I do a lot of work while out walking, normally this takes the form of phone calls, dictating notes, listening to recorded teleconferences and listening to PODCASTS. While at home I found that I could scan my RSS feeds with my laptop resting on the handlebars of my exercise bike...
Just chatting with Rikki – now with EDS – and arranging to meet up on Monday # Going to try and get to sleep again, more powerful painkillers now seem to be having an effect. I guess its another late start # Half way through a long walk Lytham, listening...
Tom Davenport is spot on, with this post: Here’s a next big thing: companies will need to redesign their workplaces to better fit the needs of knowledge workers. The idea that we should spend our workdays in boring cubicles — either in big downtown buildings or suburban office parks —...
Irwin Lazar asks: Is SharePoint a Web 2.0 platform? Is SharePoint a content management system? Is SharePoint a workflow manager? Is SharePoint a social computing platform? Or is SharePoint a portal to other applications? and concludes that although SharePoint is to some extent all of these things: Well…the answer to...
Mark Greiner (Senior Vice-President and leader of Steelcase’s WorkSpace Futures team) has a very interesting blog on a very neglected subject, at least in my view as I’m a big believer in workspace design and have posted often on the subject. I was pleased to see Mark discover the book...
(updated with a link to Michael’s post that works!) Michael argues that we hide behind the need for culture change on many collaboration projects, his key point is illustrated by this example: if a team can run a project in email then they can run one in a collaboration tool....