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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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Your audit might explore any, or all of, these seven areas: Technology systems Policies and procedures Security Productivity Communication Culture Professional development How you present this initiative to your employees is critical. Fortunately, subpar technology is a problem that can be fixed. Don’t forget volunteers.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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In 2005, when Highroad was one of the few virtual businesses, the concept raised some eyebrows. We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. Organizations that were reluctant to update systems corrected deficits. Commuting, excessive meetings, disruptions and office politics erode productivity.”

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The Cruft Challenge: When It’s Time to Disrupt Your Own Technology

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The parent company of the content management system WordPress recently tried disrupting itself in this fashion—and came up with something truly impressive. One of those things was a disaster on the part of United Airlines, which suffered a frustrating glitch caused by its decades-old computer systems.

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Report: Remote Work Growing in Prominence

Associations Now

Census data, regular telecommuting more than doubled between 2005 and 2015—outpacing the rest of the workforce nearly tenfold. The report lays much of this progress at the feet of evolving technology. “Obviously, technological advances played a big role in making it easy to work wherever and whenever,” the report states.

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Making Silos Work

Jamie Notter

To solve the silo problem, you need to increase your capacity for systems thinking. The different parts of the system need to be able to see how what they are doing is causing in impact in another part of the system, even if it’s delayed or somewhat indirect. That inhibits systems thinking. Image credit. Mary Lange.

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Strategy and Context

Jamie Notter

Here’s the excerpt: In the early 80s, simply delivering technology in a usable form was still the biggest challenge, and Sony got it right before anyone else. Technology is a given, and the question of “what are the specs?” December 2005 (5). November 2005 (7). October 2005 (4). August 2005 (7).

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Preparing for an Entirely New Economy

Jamie Notter

In the end, when this system collapsed, it was bailed out by the US government (by using the clear formula Privatizing Profits, Socializing Losses ). Technological leaps are creating knowledge gaps at too fast a rate. It used to be that new technologies would displace workers, but result in improved productivity and stronger economies.