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Work Experience Design: Google May Get Work Wrong, But it is the Design Not The Open Office

April 21, 2015 by Daniel W. Rasmus Leave a Comment

I just saw an item from the Washington Post from last December titled: Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace by Lindsey Kaufman. The article outlines her horrible experience at a New York ad agency that moved to an open office: lost productivity, judgement about personal routines and the daily experience of working as a member of a twelve person … [Read more...] about Work Experience Design: Google May Get Work Wrong, But it is the Design Not The Open Office

Why Collaboration is Broken: Becoming Anti-Fragile Through Design

December 17, 2014 by Daniel W. Rasmus 2 Comments

This is an except from the new report: Why Collaboration is Broken. In Nicolas Nasim Taleb’s book, Anti-Fragile, the noted decision-making author describes how some things in nature and engineering benefit from chaos and stress. A glass does not benefit from stress. Place enough stress on it, and it shatters. When people exercise, that places stress on muscles, and the … [Read more...] about Why Collaboration is Broken: Becoming Anti-Fragile Through Design

Download New Report: Why Collaboration is Broken

October 27, 2014 by Daniel W. Rasmus 3 Comments

Join knowledge workers all over the world in learning how to make collaboration better. Over the last year, Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus has worked with vendors and consumers of technology to understand why collaboration technology doesn’t provide the business value it should. This research resulted in a new report: Why Collaboration is Broken, an … [Read more...] about Download New Report: Why Collaboration is Broken

How to Design a Meeting The DOs: 13 Rules That Create The Best Meetings Ever

September 11, 2012 by Daniel W. Rasmus Leave a Comment

Here is a follow-up to the Infographic How to Design a Meeting in a collaborative work environment. This installment focuses on what to do when planning and running a meeting in a collaborative work environment. Here is a link to the DON’Ts. Work with attendees to co-create a prioritized agenda so everyone understands the purpose of the meeting, their role in it & what … [Read more...] about How to Design a Meeting The DOs: 13 Rules That Create The Best Meetings Ever

How to Unshackle Yourself from E-mail

August 27, 2012 by Daniel W. Rasmus Leave a Comment

On this Harvard Business Review blog this morning, Daniel Markovitz, wrote a piece titled: How to Break Free from Email Jail. I appreciate Daniel's manufacturing analogy of creating a pull system for information.  His designs make sense. However, what Daniel doesn't acknowledge is that outside of manufacturing, most organizations don't run like manufacturing floors. … [Read more...] about How to Unshackle Yourself from E-mail

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