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Mobility – Who Takes the Lead?
February 16, 2012
Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the Work/Life Think Tank at the American Medical Systems facility outside of Minneapolis. The Think Tank is the brainchild of Kathy Kacher of Career/Life Alliance Services. It’s a place where Human Resource professionals get together regularly to discuss the evolving nature of work and how to best support it. Kathy invited me to talk about the new workplace from the real estate perspective, an often discussed POV in the world of corporate real estate but seldom heard in the HR world – which I found interesting.
We all...
The Three C's
February 02, 2012
With all the hype of Social Media, and the constant refrain of “we have to start using this Social Media stuff”, it might help to start to build an understanding of what can be done within the context of a corporate real estate organization. The three key words are Connect, Communicate, Collaborate.
Connect
People need connections. Social Media can help make those connections without a need for proximity or even a current reason for connecting. People within a company but in a different functional area can connect and this connection can make future...
Why Solutions Fail
January 26, 2012
There is an assumption in the world of software and systems engineering that by gaining a detailed understanding of a system’s constituent parts we can fully understand the system as a whole. In other words, by breaking down a desired solution into discrete bite-size snippets, we can see how everything fits together and thus we will clearly understand how the overall solution will operate. However, this approach seldom works in practice for our industry. Why?
I have struggled with this disconnect between a highly valued scientific methodology (think Use Cases) and the reality...
CRE•WM Resolutions for 2012
January 12, 2012
Have you made your resolutions for 2012? It’s a tradition many people celebrate around each new year, although it’s less of a tradition to hear of people who’ve actually succeeded with their resolutions. Admittedly, I haven’t polled anyone to get an idea of why so many new year resolutions often fail, but I suspect it has something to do with the strategies – or lack thereof – employed in bringing resolutions to fruition. Whether it’s an individual or a Corporate Real Estate · Workplace Management organization, failing to plan is...
Ten 2012 Predictions for Workplace Technology
January 09, 2012
The following predictions go hand-in-hand with my last blog called “Five 2012 Predictions for the Workplace” – because you can’t talk about the workplace without talking about technology.
Mobile Apps will surround and embrace us – Mobile collaboration apps that keep us in community over time and space will become simpler, ubiquitous and fill in even the tiniest gaps in our common interconnectedness. And they’ll begin to be encouraged by forward-thinking corporate IT departments. The challenge will be to learn the behaviors and...
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