Rather than define them in words, let define them through a game
The joy of something like an iPhone
Many people say that the great success of Apple is do to the tight integration of their hardware and services and how they work with, rather than against us.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/janitors/15524881120
30” tube – Proponents of traditional MRI say that claustrophobia related to the size of the tube in “not a big deal” even though enough concerns were voiced by patients to prompt the creation of open-sided MRIs. At least at the time, around 1995 there were performance differences – a technology dimension – but these could be traded-off against physical size and feelings.
30” tube – Proponents of traditional MRI say that claustrophobia related to the size of the tube in “not a big deal” even though enough concerns were voiced by patients to prompt the creation of open-sided MRIs. At least at the time, around 1995 there were performance differences – a technology dimension – but these could be traded-off against physical size and feelings.
Zappos.comAmazon.comLL BeanOverstock.comLands’ End
National Retail Federation
My own book,
Plugged-In is about how we mix together people, technology, and organizational process
3 Dimensions – PTO – some of you may know this as sociotechnical systems design
3 Practices
3 Levels
No single technology tool can be a success, no single organizational practice change can be a success. We need to design our work as systems.
We’ve known this since the 1950s if not before.
Some
No Silver (Magic Bullets)
The interviews and research I’ve done suggest that there are three practices that plugged-in managers follow:
Stop-Look-Listen: Be reflective about your needs and options, then listen to feedback as you take your first steps.
Mixing: Create an alignment of people, technology tools, and organizational process that works for the given situation.
Sharing: Practicing plugged-in management in public through modeling, being explicit about your methods, mentoring others as they try the plugged-in approach on their own.
30” tube – Proponents of traditional MRI say that claustrophobia related to the size of the tube in “not a big deal” even though enough concerns were voiced by patients to prompt the creation of open-sided MRIs. At least at the time, around 1995 there were performance differences – a technology dimension – but these could be traded-off against physical size and feelings.
30” tube – Proponents of traditional MRI say that claustrophobia related to the size of the tube in “not a big deal” even though enough concerns were voiced by patients to prompt the creation of open-sided MRIs. At least at the time, around 1995 there were performance differences – a technology dimension – but these could be traded-off against physical size and feelings.
Just look around this room
We’re living longer, our retirements aren’t as secure – and so here we are.
“Chapel Hill, N.C. – January 17, 2014: Medical software device startup, REALTROMINS, Inc., today announced it has developed and is commercializing a new family of medical devices to help critically ill and hospitalized children at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This new technology has been further advanced and enabled by running on IBM’s advanced InfoSphere Streams software.” http://www.realtromins.com/
Augmentation with Big Data
It’s as if we thought students “flatlined” after their “terminal” degree.
Changing jobs, changing careers, changing technology
“Nano degrees.” Laura Tyson, Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors; Boards of AT&T Inc.; Morgan Stanley; CBRE Group Inc.; Silver Spring Networks
Stop after productivity – People Technology & Organizational Design
3:18 Stop after Watson & Machine Learning – The singularity
4:20 Free style chess equivalents in your industry? It’s about working with the human, technical and organizational dimension. No silver bullets.
…and that brings us to design
http://www.ted.com/talks/erik_brynjolfsson_the_key_to_growth_race_em_with_em_the_machines
3 Practices
Think about it as a negotiation.
Debbie Cohen’s story
If you address all three dimensions and follow three simple practices – your work, your team, and your organizations will benefit.
Stop-look-listen = recognition
Letting go of work location doesn’t always work. You may remember that Yahoo made the news when Marissa Mayer pulled their telecommuting employees back into the office.
Some had been taking advantage of the system, but the public statement was that to be innovative you have to be face to face.
Research and other examples don’t support that – but it’s an example of holding on to perhaps the wrong thing – or perhaps the right thing at the right time:
Yahoo was in the middle of a big set of shifts and make this was the time to hold tight to people’s physical connection to the company. Time will tell. https://www.flickr.com/photos/yodelanecdotal/2732358363/
If you address all three dimensions and follow three simple practices – your work, your team, and your organizations will benefit.
Just like these ingredients on their own don’t make a chocolate chip cookie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14657061@N00/5606687561/sizes/m/in/photostream/
The joy of something like an iPhone
Many people say that the great success of Apple is do to the tight integration of their hardware and services and how they work with, rather than against us.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/janitors/15524881120
Keith Glynn & Tony Hsieh
Moved away from drop shipping as they realized that their entire strategy should be built around Wow! Customer service.
Eventually this led to them running their own fulfillment center right next to UPS in Kentucky –
It’s all about reliability and speed.
Random storage of items on human-sized racks – random so people can quickly differentiate the product they are looking for as they reach the location.
Each item is individually marked with a license plate number so it can be tracked as it goes and and if it comes back.
Employee excursions from HQ to the Fulfillment center are vice versa
Moved away from drop shipping as they realized that their entire strategy should be built around Wow! Customer service.
Eventually this led to them running their own fulfillment center right next to UPS in Kentucky –
It’s all about reliability and speed.
Random storage of items on human-sized racks – random so people can quickly differentiate the product they are looking for as they reach the location.
Each item is individually marked with a license plate number so it can be tracked as it goes and and if it comes back.
Employee excursions from HQ to the Fulfillment center are vice versa
Know your audience
Great way to start is with a negotiation workshop, then use the new way of working as the thing to be negotiated about
If you address all three dimensions and follow three simple practices – your work, your team, and your organizations will benefit.
Sarah Rosso – Automattic Global Services Manager. Automattic brings us WordPress. Automattic let go of, well, they never really were holding on to many of the things they do that are unique. They are perhaps best known for being a virtual company – you work from where you’d like, with some meetings throughout the year. They do trial project to hire – why not? And they have 140 internal blogs so the work still all makes sense – they work in public. They’ve let go of their walls, but they hold tight to their performance standards and their communication.
http://terrigriffith.com/blog/2010/06/01/practicing-systems-savvy-decades-providence-regional-medical-center-part-1
Why do they share?
People – US & China
Technology – Everything they need
Organization – Time for meetings, travel, poster sessions
One Team, Many Places is the recipe they use to mix those dimensions.
Think about it as a negotiation.
Debbie Cohen’s story
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