A typical brainstorming session produces a handful of flipover sheets with tons of sticky notes on them, that is, until they all start to come loose! Ideal as this may be for storming your mind and structuring your ideas, it is certainly not a good format to keep your results until a follow-up session. Transcribing the results is cumbersome and, like taking a picture, it freezes the results instead of making them accessible for future sessions. (more…)
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Brainstorm Organizr
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Time defragmenter
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
What it is: a more efficient day schedule, by grouping fragments of related work (detached actions) into larger, contiguous chunks.
How it works: a wizard analyzes your to do list (for actionable items) and your and your coworker’s agendas (for schedules and availability) to come up with an optimized schedule that requires fewer context switches.
For instance, it will group all activities that I need to do for the same project or with the same person(s) and plan these in one contiguous time slot.
Google Social
Monday, May 26th, 2008
Google directly for an expert! Enter a topic and Google Social will return relevant pages and relevant people, that is, the persons who created these pages or who are mentioned on them. Click on a person to discover the expert network. The network is based on the same Pagerank mechanism that is used to sort webpages that fit your query.
Buddy Spotter
Monday, May 26th, 2008
An interactive map showing the current location of your nomadic colleagues. Based on GSM network data, and accessible anywhere using your PDA or smartphone. Click on a colleague’s avatar to get status and availability information, or to contact him or her. BuddySpotter lets you locate your colleagues and setup ad hoc face-to-face meetings. It will also make you more aware of your coworkers’ whereabouts and activities.
Office camper
Monday, May 26th, 2008
The ideal mobile office space for the nomadic worker. It works like a taxi: picks you up at one place (home, office, client’s site) and drops you off at another. Smart routing is used to let you meet your nomadic co-workers in between your and their client meetings. All facilities to be productive – individually or as a team – are provided on-board.
Slow life
Monday, May 26th, 2008A mental shift towards slowing down life’s pace.
SlowLife helps you to escape the hectic of modern times, by explicitly creating moments to reflect, to put things into perspective, or just to enjoy. Examples are: going to your work on foot, taking the time for a good and healthy breakfast with your family, taking an afternoon off just to do ‘nothing’. (more…)
VR office
Monday, May 26th, 2008
The VR office is a virtual reality room where you and your team can work in a simulated environment adapted to your needs or simply to your liking. Display devices and speakers are invisibly integrated into the physical environment. Landscape, soundtrack, and synthesized smell can be matched to create the perfect environment for creative sessions, deep reflection, or concentrated individual work.
No!
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Email is frequently used to assign work to others; it has become a “poor men’s workflow system”. Senders often expect a (nearly) immediate response, whereas recipients may think very differently – but are often silent – about that. A simple “No!”-button (“No!” for “I cannot do this”) can lower the threshold for the recipient to give a prompt reply and thus avoid unnecessary confusion for the sender (did she get my message?).
The Golden Railway Pass
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The Golden Railway Pass provides special benefits to frequent business travelers:
- Access to concentrated working compartments with onboard WiFi internet connection;
- Access to communication compartments where you can have a phone conversation in private;
- Access to business lounges and fully equipped meeting rooms in all major train stations;
- Taxis-on-demand, waiting for you when you arrive. (more…)
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