Comments on: Challenges for the nomadic worker: Part 1: In Sync

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Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:34:42 +0000

[...] is a design concept conceived to address the In Sync and In Touch challenges faced by nomadic and highly mobile [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:00:24 +0000

in today’s 25X7 business environment, being in sync needs a mind set thats not easy to achieve, worse yet to maintain consistently quarter over quarter.

dividing attention between projects will never let you stay in-sync. in an environment where transactions are carried out with micro-second accuracy, losing focus will not help.

achiving this mindset will need you to possess certain multi-tasking capabilities, which is not a global character. dynamically assessing priorities and shifting them around real-time events is a hidden risk

By: janssen

janssen — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:51:57 +0000

“Staying in sync comes at a price: it requires attention”. More exactly, it requires that you divide your attention over information streams about people, activities, and contexts in which you collaborate. So the cost is _division_ of attention.

By: Martijn Kriens

Martijn Kriens — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:18:58 +0000

There is a famous saying in English: if you always do what you did you will always get what you already got.

I wonder if staying in sync leads to doing the right things. One thing that it stimulates is creating an echo chamber of people echoing what the other just said in a bit different wording. Each of these variations you need to interprete and costs time. This can clearly been seen on the internet in many blogs where many people simply recycle one original thought.

Also, research shows that this type of in sync may lead to trivialisation, like it does on sites like Digg (it is especially the trivial type of news that tends to reach the top).

So we may rephrase the statement at the start as: If you do what everybody does you get Andre Rieu…

By: Samuel Driessen

Samuel Driessen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:47:36 +0000

Interesting stuff! I’m looking forward to read your answers to these research questions. My question would be: what does ‘in sync’ mean in the real and in the virtual world? Is this difference very large and can we bridge the difference? I talked to an IT director yesterday. He’s responsible for about 80 people and he goes to his company office 1 day per week! How does he stay ‘in sync’? It doesn’t seem to be a problem for him (and for his employees?).