The Smart Work Company helps you create ways of managing and working that are good for business and good for people.
‘Smart’ work is about effectiveness - doing the right things and doing them in a way that makes the most of your people’s skills. Day-to-day concerns understandably get in the way of stepping back and thinking about how things might be more effectively achieved.
We can help you do that.
We will show you how to put smart processes into practice.
Here’s how:
You bring us a practical business challenge.
We will design a learning programme, created especially for you. It will:
(a) aim to meet your project objectives
(b) show you smart working practices
(c) help you do what you do better or differently.
You can learn more by clicking on ‘what we do’ and ‘how we do it’ on the graphic on the right, or watch this short presentation. Please contact us if you would like to know more.
In case you are wondering: John took all images on the blog posts. Images on posts are random and seldom anything to do with what the post is about!
30th of June 2009 by Anne Marie
Blogs and articles are full of accounts of workforce-led demands for social networking tools at work, often meeting management resistance. You don’t hear quite so much about social network analysis tools.
Dr Marie Puybaraud and I last year wrote an unpublished article, Knowledge Management And Enterprise Social Networking, after one of our Global Mobility Network meetings. We had invited someone to speak to us about a particular SNA and search technology. The technology lets businesses identify, monitor, measure and manage social networks, information flows and expertise. As information from a range of sources (including email, IM, wiki, blog, RSS, documents etc.) passes through the technology, it extracts connections and key themes. The technology then uses these to create social graphs, and information flows across the organization are presented as tag clouds. Read the rest of this entry »
29th of June 2009 by Anne Marie
I am not an IT specialist. My research interest is how organisational systems influence behaviour, and my practical experience is helping businesses to put in place new structures, business processes and working practices.
This is why I have been fascinated by enterprise social networking technologies for a long while. They are listed among Gartner’s ten strategic technologies for 2009, as having high potential for disruption to the business and risk if late to adoption. Enterprise social networking technologies allow networks of people to connect, tag, talk, socialise, support, cooperate, collaborate, create and share content, and share information and knowledge. Despite the challenges of getting these technologies embedded within the enterprise, a tale candidly told here by Chuck Hollis of EMC in his now sadly closed blog, social networking technologies are beginning to make inroads behind enterprise firewalls. Read the rest of this entry »
28th of June 2009 by Anne Marie
Well, they will be when I order them. My very talented partner, John, has made 100 random images from photos he and I have taken. These images are going on the reverse of the Moo cards. They are cool to look at and I expect will create curiosity and conversation. Here’s a sample:
Blogs and articles are full of accounts of workforce-led demands for social networking tools at work, often meeting management resistance. You don’t hear quite so much about social network analysis tools.
