Sharing our thinking in the open helps connect with others trying to advance the future of digital working. Our archive of articles and links is open and available below.
Enabling the Future of Work Requires a Team Focus
Working in teams and teamwork are the backbone of any modern organisation. They are where the work gets done. As organisations move away from hierarchy and towards more team-centric structures (such as podular from the work of Dave Gray or team of teams from the work...
Linklog 86: When should we trust our data?
This week’s curator, Sam Thomas, looks at some of the DOs and DON'Ts of Big Data analytics, especially as it pertains to enterprise social networks; he also picks 5 links for further reading on the topic. How do we traverse the minefield of Enterprise Social Network...
Linklog 85: How do we design for diversity?
This week’s curator, Christine Overby, looks at how to design for diversity; she also shares some Shift*Base Guides for firms that wish to become more inclusive and picks 5 links for further reading on the topic. How do we design for diversity? Being diverse is an...
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Linklog 84: Practicing what we preach
This week’s curator, Laura-Jane Parker, reflects on an initiative started with the Post*Shift team recently, to examine and shape our internal culture and ways of working as we grow as a team. Here she shares progress so far, some insight into some of the techniques...
Working Out Loud for Teams and Leaders
Last week, we joined in a co-creation effort with an amazing bunch of colleagues at Bosch and John Stepper, author of Working Out Loud, to adapt the basic idea of WOL (Working Out Loud) circles to the challenge of team development and leadership communication, and we...
Linklog 83: Key Questions and Challenges for Building a Hybrid Workforce
This week’s curator, Cerys Hearsey, looks at some of the challenges facing leaders and managers as they build new workforce configurations integrating humans and robots. Some companies have been racing ahead, but for many this still feels like science fiction. She...
Building, Managing and Leading a Hybrid Workforce
"In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won’t mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.” ~...
Linklog 82: Decentralised Organisations: a failed experiment
This week’s curator, Lee Bryant, takes a look at what the failure of the first blockchain-powered Distributed Autonomous Organisation (DAO) can teach us as about decentralised organisations, and shares some links about this emerging topic. Decentralised Organisations:...
Linklog 81: We’re on a mission to change how we work
This week’s curator, Livio Hughes, takes a more in-depth look at the background to this week’s big Shift*Base news, shares some related guides from Shift*Base, and picks 5 links for further reading. We're on a mission to change how we work Our biggest news by far this...
Linklog 80: How HR can support new, more agile ways of working
This week’s curator, Livio Hughes, looks at the enabling and strategic role that HR professionals should play in developing more agile, digitally-fluent, and responsive organisations; he also shares some related guides from Shift*Base and picks 5 links for further...