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. ...
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...
I have been increasingly concerned over how we bring companies and their employees closer together in terms of the relative priorities that each places on their IT needs, for background check out this post and this one. My fist steps towards solving this was to encourage companies to think in...
For the last few months I have been considering individual motivations which is pretty tricky as people are motivated by many different things, however I have made an attempt to develop a simple model that does seem to reflect the IT related motivations I see in many people. The diagram...
This is a great list of tools for note taking of various kinds. If you find yourself wanting to waste a day you might like to work through them all and have a go. For the record I didn’t try them out as OneNote seems to meet my needs pretty...
When I worked on a LAN my team used file systems extensively and we had a very effective working practice, as follows: We all had laptops We all stored our master data on our laptops We all stored our published files on a collaboration server The work in progress (WIP) area on...
Graham thinks the file server is dead, I’m not totally convinced – here’s why before anyone starts complaining, the following lists are not intended to be complete, only illustrative, please add additional items via comments if you are so motivated. pretty much every application supports storing it’s file based data...