This document discusses reimagining effective work. It provides strategies for reimagining, including analyzing current assumptions, looking beyond your industry for inspiration, collaboratively designing with outsiders, and embracing initial ideas rather than getting stuck in criticism. It emphasizes seeing possibilities rather than limitations and encourages an innovative mindset of constantly asking "why not?" instead of "why?". The document is authored by Michael Sampson, an independent strategist focused on collaboration and reimagining work.
13. Conferences Set Agenda Unconference
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23. Third Places
Coffee Shops
Co-Working Spaces
Collaborative Apps
Devices
Lightweight and Portable
Pocket and Purse Sized
Wearables
Networks
Wired Broadband
3G and 4G Wireless
International Roaming
24. Devices
Lightweight and Portable
Pocket and Purse Sized
Wearables
Networks
Wired Broadband
3G and 4G Wireless
International Roaming
Third Places
Coffee Shops
Co-Working Spaces
Collaborative Apps
Cloud Services
Consumption Model
Leading Edge Capabilities
Sign and Done
50. Everything around you
that you call life was
made up by people that
were no smarter than
you and you can change
it, you can influence it,
you can build your own
things that other people
can use.
51. Know what is possible.
RE-IMAGINING 1
We can meet
without
meetings
We can work
together
without being
there
Meetings are
often
overrated
52. Binoculars, not a magnifying glass.
RE-IMAGINING 2
What is going
on in the
wider world?
What’s the
3-5 year
outlook for
your
industry?
Who is doing
great stuff?
53. Study beyond your industry.
RE-IMAGINING 3
Draw
inspiration
from beyond
your industry
Explore
outside the
lines
Be a student
beyond your
own work
54. Showers, walks, and pencils.
RE-IMAGINING 4
Where do
you get the
most
inspiration
and ideas?
Create space
for “a-ha”
Free your
intuitive
processes.
Eg., writers,
painters,
more.
56. Be collaborative in design.
RE-IMAGINING 6
Involve
others from
outside your
firm,
industry,
training
Observe how
others work,
perform, do.
What can you
learn?
61. What’s new is the opportunity
to do great things simply
through superior imagination
in a world of unprecedented
technological power. In the
era of Lego innovation, we all
have access to a really big box
of plastic bricks. The contest is
to see who can use them in
the coolest possible way.
Recent project - adoption planning for the re-introduction of upgraded collaboration platform at a government agency
Established way of doing things - work, organisations, industries
Google Driverless car in NY. 5000 by 2016.
will include food vending machines. Probably not a Dirty Water Dog (hot dog).
will we need to learn to drive?
Staying in a stranger’s house and paying them for it.
Anyone own one of these?
Online shopping and drone delivery. Create and cultivate community. No longer have a need to go shopping in person.
Ugg shops on George Street. Drop pin to meet up with someone.
Recursive interdependence
SOAR - Specialist Optimization Access and Results
“You have to go to the office to work.”
“The resources you need for working are at the office.”
The people you work with are all at the office (albeit increasingly not true)
Process adherence and routinisation
Walk into a room - what do you notice?
Glasses
Clothing (retail)
Bags
Computers and devices
FitBit
Too much focus on the current state
Analysed for improvements - constrained sight, how to drive efficiency within the process
Perhaps the current process is ripe for a re-think
Example - re-thinking legal service delivery.
Example - digital books, many people with the ability to read / consume digital books.
Engage with people beyond your - office, industry, city, country
“What is going on in your work?”
“What are the big ideas in your industry?”
“What are the major changes that have changed your work in the past decade?”
Don’t become so constrained in thinking that you can only keep doing what you’ve always been doing.
Take a sabbatical - to another firm. See IIA for good ideas.
Don’t get to perfect too soon. Allow space for creativity and experimentation.
Unlikely to be meetings and sitting around.
Post-It Notes and a Sharpie.
Finnish culture - the sauna.
Ideas go … from rejection, it will never work, I told you all along it would work fine.
Turn off the critic.
Embrace the risk.
Brainstorm pros and cons
Impose constraints to drive design thinking
Today and tomorrow:
Many good ideas. Listen, learn, be encouraged.
Many opportunities to engage / discuss / talk with speakers and fellow delegates. Make the most of the opportunity.