Simplifying complex work

Yves Morieux gives a really interesting TED talk here on how to reduce the complexity of modern day work. He has six rules to help make this happen: Understand what your colleagues actually do. Remove rules: Reinforce the “integrators” Integrators…

Connect with WorkSmart

As you would expect, WorkSmart is all over the internet! The first thing to do is to join the site. Membership is free, and means you get the regular email newsletter. In the future it will also give you access…

Collaboration or cooperation?

Stowe Boyd is a great writer on technology and the impact it has on organisational culture. You can follow his blog here, which is updated several times a day with great titbits and articles. He has written a post for…

Kahootz’s guide to a digital first culture

Kahootz is a cloud based project collaboration platform, which looks pretty good – and their blog is full of useful stuff. Recently their CEO John Glover posted about “Creating a ‘Digital First’ culture in your public sector organisation“. In it…

WorkSmart!

Just to let Kind of Digital readers know about a new blog I’ve launched, called WorkSmart. It’s all about how we work in organisations and will cover stuff like use of technology for personal productivity and better team working, and…

The emergent task planner

I don’t know about you, but I love productivity hacks. One of my favourite bloggers on this topic is David Seah, and as well as offering great insight via his blog, he also shares some beautifully designed templates and forms…

Welcome to WorkSmart!

WorkSmart is a new blog about how we do our jobs. It strikes me that there is a lot going on in terms of building fantastic user interfaces and processes for customers and end users of services – and this…

Rethinking email

Or maybe not actually rethinking email, but taking it back to what it was meant to be about… Working with a colleague the other day in a government organisation, I saw him looking for a document, that he was sent…

Collaboration ground rules

Sometimes to make collaboration work you need to set some ground rules. It’s easy to say, “let’s start up a google doc!” – and imagine everyone leaping in to give their ideas. But it’s not so simple as that, especially…