Planetary and Vedic Yagyas Bring Positive Impacts in Life
Venturefest collaborative working
1. Why go it alone?
Collaborative Working Online
Work is something you do,
not somewhere you go
Liz Cable, Reach Further
2. Reach Further offers Training &
Consultancy:
• Online Communities
• Elearning
• Social Media
• Agile Working
3. An old-fashioned organisation chart
CEO
Marketing Finance Training
IT Director CEO
Director Director Director
Office
Training & Coding Sales & Legal &
Training Training Support,
Consultancy & Design Marketing Financial
Team
Team Team
Team HR &
Team Team
Admin
4. Associate
Trainers
Virtual
Assistants
How we work
Freelancers
today
.4 Office
Administrator Social Media Junior
Subject .4 INTERN .3
Matter (SEO & Web 2.0)
Experts
Events & Training
Administrator .8
SEO & SMM
“Friends of the FLEXIBLE
Company”
WORKING
INTERN .2
(Viral videos)
REMOTE
WORKING Finance
Coding Director
Company
Researchers
Branding Web Company IT Director Tax
Company Payroll
5. Collaboration for Growth
Partners Partners
Freelancers Channels to Market
Core
Experts Workers Our customers
_______ customers
Friends Support
Virtual Fulfilment
Virtual Support
6. WHEN and WHERE do you need
people to be?
Location
independent
Time Time
independent dependent
Location
dependent
7. 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.
8. Benefits of Collaborative Working
ONLINE
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
10. 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
11. 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.
12. 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
13. Charles Handy's Shamrock
Organisation
• From his book “The
Age of Unreason”
• When was this
published?
14. ANY QUESTIONS?
This presentation is available
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Blog: www.reachfurther.com
Skype: lizatreachfurther
Email: liz@reachfurther.com