Third Edition
Welcome to the 3rd edition of Open Minds Business Briefing where we aim to give you useful analysis, insights and comments from experts on some of the latest developments in the communications industry.
In this edition, we look at the global phenomenon of home working and explore how you can use smart technologies and simple techniques to become more productive at home.
Managing IT projects is a complex art and can get a little bumpy when fallible human beings are involved. Michael Dempsey, who works for BBC News, looks at the best ways to get project management right.
The virtual enterprise enables people to work together by removing the limitations of location, geography and physical space. Rod Newing, who writes for The Financial Times, looks at the future of virtual enterprises; their benefits; the cultural obstacles and the sectors in which virtualisation is starting to take hold.
In the new Open Minds interviews we talk with Gary Steer, Technology Director of Hermes Datacommunications International Ltd and Todd Sharp, Director of Engage; about their favourite gadgets, the key business technology issues of the future and the pressing challenges facing their organisations.
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The Future of the Virtual Enterprise
When Ross Sedgewick started out in his career, the people he worked with physically surrounded him within 20 feet. Now he is based in Toronto and the team who work for him are spread 6,000 miles apart, in San Jose, New York city and Munich.
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How to work more productively from home
Today, almost one in eight Europeans works from home at least part of the time – with workers in the UK and Germany most likely to work from home regularly. Home working is fast becoming a global phenomenon. About 14% of the US workforce gets its job done at a home office more than two days per week, according to US consulting firm Work Design Collaborative. That's up from 11% in 2004, and is set to grow to 17% by 2009.
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The Art of Good Governance
Keeping imaginative and fallible human beings moving in the required direction is never going to be easy. Inject the potential complexity of technology into the mix and things are bound to get a little bumpy. Managing IT projects seems to require a peculiar mix of skills and disciplines. And there has never been a shortage of new ideas about how to go about making broken deadlines and cost overruns a thing of the past.
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New Open Minds Interviews
In the new Open Minds interviews we talk with Gary Steer, Technology Director of Hermes Datacommunications International Ltd and Todd Sharp, Director of Engage; about their favourite gadgets, the key business technology issues of the future and the pressing challenges facing their organisations.
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