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: liz@reachfurther.com

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