Re-Imagining Effective Work
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This document discusses reimagining effective work. It provides strategies for reimagining, including analyzing current assumptions, looking beyond your industry for inspiration, collaboratively designing with outsiders, and embracing initial ideas rather than getting stuck in criticism. It emphasizes seeing possibilities rather than limitations and encourages an innovative mindset of constantly asking "why not?" instead of "why?". The document is authored by Michael Sampson, an independent strategist focused on collaboration and reimagining work.
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Re-Imagining Effective Work
- 2. Cultivating Productive Collaboration Pivot Theme Independent Collaboration Strategist Michael Industry Analyst Author Workshop Leader End User Organisations (not vendors) Market Working to help drive success at end user organisations
- 3. Our Field Re-Imagining Effective Work Toolkit Strategies for Re-Imagining Wide View Re-Imagining Trend
- 6. Transportation and Accommodation Trains and Taxis Hotels and Motels Uber and Lyft Airbnb
- 13. Conferences Set Agenda Unconference "Wikiconf NYC 2010 open space" by Boris Mindzak - sent by email. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiconf_NYC_2010_open_space.JPG#/media/File:Wikiconf_NYC_2010_open_space.JPG
- 15. Retail Bricks & Mortar High Street Clicks & Clones Urban Areas
- 19. In-City Navigation Maps on Phones Shoes
- 20. Our FieldWide View Re-Imagining Effective Work Re-Imagining Trend
- 21. Networks Wired Broadband 3G and 4G Wireless International Roaming
- 22. Devices Lightweight and Portable Pocket and Purse Sized Wearables Networks Wired Broadband 3G and 4G Wireless International Roaming
- 23. Third Places Coffee Shops Co-Working Spaces Collaborative Apps Devices Lightweight and Portable Pocket and Purse Sized Wearables Networks Wired Broadband 3G and 4G Wireless International Roaming
- 24. Devices Lightweight and Portable Pocket and Purse Sized Wearables Networks Wired Broadband 3G and 4G Wireless International Roaming Third Places Coffee Shops Co-Working Spaces Collaborative Apps Cloud Services Consumption Model Leading Edge Capabilities Sign and Done
- 28. Work Process New Technology + Open Plan Offices No one is talking
- 29. Work Process New Technology + Mobile Devices Go to the office to do your work
- 34. Business Model Technology Find the Best Talent Across the World +
- 35. Business Model Org Culture Technology Openness, Transparency, Outcomes + ++ Find the Best Talent Across the World
- 36. Business Model Org Culture Org Structure Technology Virtual, Seamless, Digital Place + + +++ Openness, Transparency, Outcomes Find the Best Talent Across the World
- 37. Business Model Org Culture Org Structure Work Process Technology SharePoint = Collaborative Workspace + + + ++++ Virtual, Seamless, Digital Place Openness, Transparency, Outcomes Find the Best Talent Across the World
- 38. Cisco SOAR
- 39. Business Model Org Culture Org Structure Work Process Technology + + + ++++ Shared Workspace, Online Meetings Expertise by Subject, not Location Dedicated to Shared Resources Cisco SOAR
- 40. CEMEX
- 42. Coca-Cola
- 43. Business Model Org Culture Org Structure Work Process Technology + + + ++++ Cloud Services e.g., Office 365 Business Professionals, not IT geeks Agility, Speed to Market, Engagement Coca-Cola
- 45. Business Model Org Culture Org Structure Work Process Technology + + + ++++ Apps on iPhones and iPads Work where you are, even on the beat Empowering officers for doing the work New Zealand Police
- 46. ToolkitOur FieldWide View Re-Imagining Effective Work Strategies for Re-Imagining Re-Imagining Trend
- 48. we see what we have been trained to see 2 current/old assumptions about work die hard 1
- 49. analysing current processes blurs vision 3 we see what we have been trained to see 2 current/old assumptions about work die hard 1
- 50. Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
- 51. Know what is possible. RE-IMAGINING 1 We can meet without meetings We can work together without being there Meetings are often overrated
- 52. Binoculars, not a magnifying glass. RE-IMAGINING 2 What is going on in the wider world? What’s the 3-5 year outlook for your industry? Who is doing great stuff?
- 53. Study beyond your industry. RE-IMAGINING 3 Draw inspiration from beyond your industry Explore outside the lines Be a student beyond your own work
- 54. Showers, walks, and pencils. RE-IMAGINING 4 Where do you get the most inspiration and ideas? Create space for “a-ha” Free your intuitive processes. Eg., writers, painters, more.
- 55. Analyse assumptions. RE-IMAGINING 5 What do we hold as “true” that actually might not be true anymore? What’s the “founding principle” we dare not change?
- 56. Be collaborative in design. RE-IMAGINING 6 Involve others from outside your firm, industry, training Observe how others work, perform, do. What can you learn?
- 57. Embrace the stupid first draft. RE-IMAGINING 7
- 58. Ask “why not?” instead of “why?” RE-IMAGINING 8
- 59. ToolkitOur FieldWide View Re-Imagining Effective Work Strategies for Re-Imagining Re-Imagining Trend
- 60. Geoff Colvin Author, Talent is Overrated Senior Editor at Large, Fortune
- 61. What’s new is the opportunity to do great things simply through superior imagination in a world of unprecedented technological power. In the era of Lego innovation, we all have access to a really big box of plastic bricks. The contest is to see who can use them in the coolest possible way.
- 62. Do. Cool. Stuff.
Editor's Notes
- Recent project - adoption planning for the re-introduction of upgraded collaboration platform at a government agency
- Established way of doing things - work, organisations, industries
- Google Driverless car in NY. 5000 by 2016. will include food vending machines. Probably not a Dirty Water Dog (hot dog). will we need to learn to drive?
- Staying in a stranger’s house and paying them for it. Anyone own one of these?
- Online shopping and drone delivery. Create and cultivate community. No longer have a need to go shopping in person.
- Ugg shops on George Street. Drop pin to meet up with someone.
- Recursive interdependence
- SOAR - Specialist Optimization Access and Results
- “You have to go to the office to work.” “The resources you need for working are at the office.” The people you work with are all at the office (albeit increasingly not true) Process adherence and routinisation
- Walk into a room - what do you notice? Glasses Clothing (retail) Bags Computers and devices FitBit
- Too much focus on the current state Analysed for improvements - constrained sight, how to drive efficiency within the process Perhaps the current process is ripe for a re-think
- Example - re-thinking legal service delivery. Example - digital books, many people with the ability to read / consume digital books.
- Engage with people beyond your - office, industry, city, country “What is going on in your work?” “What are the big ideas in your industry?” “What are the major changes that have changed your work in the past decade?” Don’t become so constrained in thinking that you can only keep doing what you’ve always been doing. Take a sabbatical - to another firm. See IIA for good ideas.
- Don’t get to perfect too soon. Allow space for creativity and experimentation. Unlikely to be meetings and sitting around. Post-It Notes and a Sharpie. Finnish culture - the sauna.
- Ideas go … from rejection, it will never work, I told you all along it would work fine. Turn off the critic. Embrace the risk.
- Brainstorm pros and cons Impose constraints to drive design thinking
- Today and tomorrow: Many good ideas. Listen, learn, be encouraged. Many opportunities to engage / discuss / talk with speakers and fellow delegates. Make the most of the opportunity.