The Future of Teamwork presentation was the introduction to a series of workshops showing how online applications can change the way organisations work.
We looked at collaboration and how cloud based software as a service tools can increase productivity, profitability and make an organisation more agile.
Welcome Personal introduction Housekeeping: Toilets, exits, mobiles to silent. structure of the morning opportunity for questions show how your business can use online tools to enhance teamwork why teamwork matters in the new economy introduce to the neighbour, how do they see their team.
barriers are falling around the world the days of dominant players are over age of commoditisation an age of great opportunities but also challenges some of your competitors don't exist yet you can't anticipate where competitors, challenges and opportunities will next come from. your team needs to be nimble and agile
IT is like a pyramid, at the pointy end we have the applications, below those we have the servers. pyramids are big, expensive and difficult to move online services reduce the size of pyramid this pyramid is 1500 years old move your systems online, onto the cloud where others do the work for you. don't knock IT people IT people have a difficult life vendor lock in licensing online apps pay as you go remove OS wars end of Mac vs PC ease of traing standardised systems no longer matter security and dr issues software patching and advisories major tech businesses employ hundreds of people to lock down systems data loss keeps IT staff awake at night business continuity Liverpool council (Sydney) fire and disruption to operations PWC claim 70% of businesses go bust after major data loss online applications reduce risk