tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043319857943176014.post7127603781340691010..comments2023-12-22T03:37:00.559-05:00Comments on sent2null space: the increasingly telepresent workforce...David Saintlothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08003376317566794366noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043319857943176014.post-63133598116270919172008-03-19T12:41:00.000-04:002008-03-19T12:41:00.000-04:00Keith, the way I see it is that as the business ta...Keith, the way I see it is that as the business takes on the agility of interaction that we have in our personal lives by allowing people to work , whenever and from where ever, it will relax the demands on workers. This will make their productivity <B>greater</B> over time, since the pressures that exist in current brick and mortar business environments simply will be non existent. The psychological power given an employee who does not have to punch a clock can not be underestimated. I think the key to flourishing the connectedness of community that you refer to comes from ensuring that the business ties in seamlessly into the employees lives in an unobtrusive way. This is done by ensuring that business requests come in <B>quantized</B> chunks of action against business objects. This allows the very operations of the business processes that the employee may be engaged in to be metered as well as simultaneously metering the performance of the employee in either handling the action request or forwarding it on to an employee or system that can handle the request. By metering both the action and the performance simultaneously, the need for separate facilities is obviated and a great deal of inefficiency is eliminated. At the end of a work cycle, the precise number of actions delegated to an employee for a given set of business processes can be tabulated and compared to the completion or redelgation of those actions by that employee, allowing an assessment of employee productivity to be created that is purely based on the work they did and if they did it within the bounds of the requested action parameters.<BR/>Remember that the chief gain to the business is that it no longer needs to provide baby sitting for employees in formal offices, the costs of such infrastructure over time form a huge fixed cost that if eliminated allow the business to reinvest profit into the business to expand products or services. If the employees are happier working as they please and productivity improves as a side effect, there is now a doubling effect on the benefits derived by the business. Essentially, the task is to have a system in place that is agile enough to facilitate individual action monitoring for every stage , of every possible business process on any possible business object. It needs to also provide collaboration between employees that is also fluid in a way that current solutions simply are inadequate for, allowing ad hoc <B>but secure</B> interaction between employees interacting on business processes or between employees and outside partners. It sounds like a nearly impossible set of things to generalize into software but I believe my company has succeeded in realizing precisely this type of system. I'll be presenting more information on the specifics of the solution in the coming weeks.David Saintlothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08003376317566794366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9043319857943176014.post-11623671938501091782008-03-19T06:58:00.000-04:002008-03-19T06:58:00.000-04:00I like the idea. This is a well thought out reven...I like the idea. This is a well thought out revenue generating, cost reduction, and profit making idea. Does not get any better than that. Taking your idea a step further I wonder how this extra time of not commuting everyday spurs innovative connectedness in one's community. Maybe a group or workers meet at a coffee shop and work together. maybe a group of friends meet to go to work, but all work at seperate companies. Image the idea sharing that would go on.<BR/><BR/>I like it I just would not want to lose the human connectedness you do get from a brick and mortar.....you can leave the other stuff behind.Pulling Tinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04160457861368920043noreply@blogger.com