Collaborative Strategies - Denise Defreese - Stewardship Working Group
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Why go it alone?Collaborative Working Online
Work is something you do, not somewhere you go
Liz Cable, Reach Further
Reach Further offers Training & Consultancy:
• Online Communities• Elearning• Social Media• Agile Working
An old-fashioned organisation chart
CEO Training Director
Marketing DirectorIT Director Training
DirectorFinanceDirector
TrainingTeam
Coding& Design Team
Training &Consultancy Team
TrainingTeam
Legal &FinancialTeam
Sales &MarketingTeam
OfficeSupport, HR & Admin
CEO
SEO & SMM
INTERN .2(Viral videos)
INTERN .3(SEO & Web 2.0)
Coding Company
Branding Company
Web Company
Associate Trainers
Subject Matter Experts
Finance Director
IT DirectorPayroll
Tax
Social Media Junior.4
.4 OfficeAdministrato
r
Virtual Assistants
Events & Training Administrator .8
“Friends of the Company”
Freelancers
REMOTEWORKING
FLEXIBLEWORKING
How we work today
Researchers
Collaboration for Growth
Partners
Freelancers
Experts
Friends
Virtual Support
Partners
Channels to Market
Our customerscustomers
Virtual Fulfilment
Core Workers_______
Support
Locationindependent
Time independent
Location dependent
Timedependent
WHEN and WHERE do you need people to be?
Benefits of Collaborative Working
1. Reduce the need for permanent office space
2. Deliver the right talent for the job
3. Pay for what you use (Pass cost savings on?)
4. Collaborate on bigger pitches & contracts
5. Enables you to “Stick to your knitting”
6. Add BRILLIANT people to your workforce who simply can't work 9 to 5.
Benefits of Collaborative WorkingONLINE
1. 24/7 global workforce (customer service perhaps?)
2. Everyone has (restricted) access to all materials
3. Virtual Presence - “Smoke signals” on Twitter
4. Amplification through Social Media
5. ZERO start-up cost
6. FREE recruitment – & check them out online
Collaborative Working Online
Out-Source EVERYTHING
What's YOUR time worth?
Use collaboration to support YOURSELF as well as your CLIENTS
Collaborative Working Online
• Virtual Assistants
• Student researchers & Virtual INTERNS
• “My Man in Mumbai”
• Crowdsourcing - Research & Development
• Subscribe to the software,
– and the expert comes free
Tools for Collaborative Working
• Simple Tools for Sharing:
– Writeboard
– Delicious
– Skype
– DropBox
– Huddle (also as an application on LinkedIn)
– Doodle (for arranging meetings)
– Twitter: twitdocs, twitpics, audioboo, etc.
Tools for Collaborative Working
• More complex projects
– DimDim Webinars and virtual meetings
– BaseCamp Document sharing & PM
– Wrike PM with email integration
– Unfuddle Customer Service
– CrowdVine Online Community
– WetPaint WIKI based community
Charles Handy's Shamrock Organisation
• From his book “The Age of Unreason”
• When was this published?
ANY QUESTIONS?
Twitter: @lizcableLinkedIn: Liz CableFacebook: Liz CableBlog: www.reachfurther.comSkype: lizatreachfurtherEmail: [email protected]
This presentation is available on my LinkedIn Profile