Business reimagined
Subtitle: why work isn't working and what you can do about it
By: Dave Coplin
Publisher: Harriman House Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Petersfield, Hampshire, Great Britain
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857193322; 9780857193315
Subjects: Job enrichment; Quality of work life; Creative ability in business; Work; Psychological aspects; Organizational change; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development
Description: Are you happy with the way you work? Are you engaged, energised in the office? Or do you sometimes feel that your days are dominated by process and technology? Reimagining business is about waking up to a new environment, based on collaborative and flexible working, on technology that, used correctly, liberates rather than constrains. The future of work must be based on being open, on focusing on results, not process and on empowerment, not hierarchy. Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft UK, has been immersed in the technologies that are making waves in the workplace. This is his call to reimagine business. #bizreimagined.
Notes: Title from title screen.
Table of contents: title: About the Author; Foreword by Ben Hammersley; Chapter 1. Is Business Broken?; Working like a Victorian; The antelope of the open office; Captain Kirk's inbox; Experience vs . innovation; The problem of productivity; Creative businesses are the future; How creativity works; Chapter 2. Getting Flexible; The man with no office; True flexible working; Smarter, better collaboration; Inflexible about flexibility; Bums on seats; Being strategic; Chapter 3. Being Social; Social wizardry; What is a social enterprise?; An almost elemental force; Flattened and frictionless.; title: What social means for your businessA quicker way of moving; Social stumbles; An unstoppable wave; Virtual coffee; Ev erything together; Just the way things are; Chapter 4. Managing to Change; Revolution in a slide show; The death of hierarchy; The end of efficiency; Management reimagined; Creative management culture; Educating self-direction; Engaging everyone; Chapter 5. Reimagining Business; Beautiful but useless; The death of desks; Organisms rather than organisations; The knowledge of every job; The potential of the future; Being brave; Talking to your appliances; Acknowledgements.