I was shocked to learn that Scoble is leaving Microsoft, but probably not that surprised. I told him a few months ago that I was very impressed by the influence that he has had on the company and his bravery in achieving it. I am sure that many other people...
I consider myself to be very lucky to work from home. Because my medical condition makes it difficult for me to travel at least a couple of times a week and I feel too ill to work for at least a few hours most days only a decade ago I...
HP recently shocked it’s employees and sent a few ripples through the industry when they decided to reign back home working. Their justification seems to be that whilst home-working is great for many senior employees it makes it difficult for junior staff to build their skills and broaden their experience. ...
I have been testing Office 2007 for some time now, seen lots of bugs – but hardly reported any of them – because the process for doing so was way too time consuming. With office 2007 we get the opportunity to install a couple of taskbar icons smiley and grumpy. ...
We can sometimes get carried away by the idea that the solution to all of our problems is team work, we draw ever more people onto our conference calls, send our emails to bigger circulation lists and try an enlist a diverse group of people on every project to increase...
I love the reforming project management blog, it has some great insights. As an architect/solution manager who has dabbled with project and programme management for 15 years I have found that all too often project managers get tricked into managing the project and not managing the people. A great example...
In my previous post I described the difficulty of modelling most knowledge work as a process, and that makes it difficult to create IT tools to support it, to measure it, improve it and ultimately automate it. Rod Boothby follows a similar train of thought in his post Forget Robots...
In a study by the Information Worker Productivity Council in 2004 they found that the average knowledge worker: Spent 3 hours and 14 minutes a day using technologies to process work-related information—just over 40% of an 8-hour work day, the details follow, they: Devoted 1.58 hours/day to e-mail (49% of the...
A study was conducted in a software engineering company, which was already above the norm in terms of efficiency. The Trial consisted of 7 teams who were co-located compared with the rest (more) who used audio, video and application sharing. The co-located teams averaged double the output and reduced time...
I am a big believer in the improvement for businesses that can be achieved by improving productivity. I still see this as a largely untapped area of savings. what! you are probably saying at this point is Steve talking about, every last bit of productivity improvement has been driven out of processes...