Please find herewith shared my meeting notes on Vital seminar held in TKK (Helsinki University of Technology) into which I was today participating. To be noted that a clever text message discussion board was used alongwith the presentation constantly. During the 3-hour session the tool was used the most at the beginning of the session, but its favour declined dramatically.
Vital - 102 methods fir making Virtual work effective
- vital webtool to be taken into use
Sirkka Leinonen, VTT
– Creating foresight space, meaning of work for employee is important, balance between work and private life, seeing own work into the context as a whole like a person carving a stone
– Creating foresight space, meaning of work for employee is important, balance between work and private life, seeing own work into the context as a whole like a person carving a stone– digi society: creative class, everything will be digitalized, going towards extreme feelings, robots making the work
– working paradigm: continuous learning, flexible, virtual & global, hybrid work, mobile work -> virtual mobile work, flexible work place
- tecnoknowledge: not bad nor good
- creativeness vs worklife balance
- fruiting creative environment: creativity is a soil for innovations, not to be forced, slow life, busy vs peace
- creativity: all do have a potential for it, creating chances for random meetings, creativity not again rational thinking, risk taking important
- creative person features: curiosity, openness for experience, mind awareness, freshly looking in new viewpoints
- human eye 5% focusing, 95 % seeing -> 95 % focusing in organization, but 5 % seeing
- how social media could be utilized for companies?: SecondLife, Youtube etc…
- creative foresight space -> creativeness, futurelooking site, virtual space: creating virtual society, community gardeners, collective
Terhikki Rimmanen, Humap
- team -> networks: more speed at work, more systems introduced, trust important, a lot of to be learnt out, transparency important and natural for the Finns, not necessarily for other nations like in Southern Europe
- team -> networks: more speed at work, more systems introduced, trust important, a lot of to be learnt out, transparency important and natural for the Finns, not necessarily for other nations like in Southern Europe- leader challenges: goals and tasks into strategy direction, virtual working environments, not moving face-to-face into virtual meetings, social & human aspects more important, top-down replaced with bottom-up method more often taking place now
- building up virtual teams: continuous constant interaction is important run by a manager, ad-hoc spontaneous meetings
- collaboration important
- all the issues important
- active listening skills
- leaving irrelevant issues out -> prioritization skills
Kristiina Lammila, Nokia
- how Nokia improves processes and IT together
- vision.: very human approach- Nokia at glance 40000 persons: network of 100000 persons, always virtual teams, India people working for IT
- Nokia challenges: customer do not compromise, emerging markets define their logic, developed markets will become mature, value with internet rules, new world order, continued growth for mobile industry leaders
- Nokia internal challenges: employees as consumers, cost pressure and profitability, enterprise showcases, corporate IT rules should be applied
- workstyle survey: IT, HR and Real Estate, flexispaces in use, home working often happening, IT security should be taken care, HR having a key when leading people- grouping: executive level, customer-facing employee and field workers, last 3 years only one business trip used
- classifying personal needs
- different uses for different tools- “working smarter”: compligated networks, simplified access to all content, services -> messaging, collaboration tools, from application-centric to user-centric approach
- formal workflow surrounded by informal collaboration: blogs and wikis in use, social collaboration -> 72 hrs together forming value
- too loose organization for implementing company-wide IT tools limiting to intranet and email
- more collaboration needed especially with partners- rapid reaction towards needs
- transparency does increase: understanding of users needs, information work place
- web 2.0 coming to the picture
- presence awareness, information rights and personalization
- IWs corner stones defined
- tools should be adapted into Nokia infrastructure
- culture does affect on selecting and improving tools
- balance to be found between realization vs needs and requirements
- more important collaboration interest
- asking opinions among personals
- O-P Kallasvuo’s blog started the defining of Nokia value process
Mika Aaltonen, TKK
- Chronotypes - places in time
- in organization a lot of different times present at the same time
- Strax members: Matti Alahuhta, Chairman IMD, Board member BT; Josephine Green, Philips;Rolf Jensen, Dream Company; Michael Loescher, Copernicus; Dave Snowden, Editor E:CO;John Casti, the Kenos
- seeing what not seen before
- not tell to think but open thinking
- eight lenses: one virtuality and time concept; less you see, less you able to manipulate the future;
- planes of influence: terrestial, space, spectral, virtual, psychological
- insights: starlight: the role and nature of time; sanctuary: hiding ;small stuff: software,bio,nano ;veracity: challenge of truth and knowledge; herds: people and ideas on move ;wealth: moving past money ;power: clout and who or what has it; a parallel universe: from networks to cyber life; bedfellows: the significance of teaming
-challenges: knowing the landscape; increasing IQ; improving capacity to decide;ubiquitous computer constant decision changes; improving your intelligence system
- asking from different levels combining a support for general decision making
- time & future: all the resources are there for tomorrow; past and future should be present
- three horizons in Philips: business as usual: 1-3; waking up case; new business: 3-5; exploration of futures: 5 beyond- to-do list: exploring the future; engaging with the future; future is here, but it is yet distributed, co-creating;envisaging the future; re-conceptualising
- landscape of management: chronotype: linear,disruptive and visionary; linear:not good place too simple to cope with, German; visionary: cause and effect separated - Finnish; disruptive: too much chaos making handling it too important - Swedish
- matching the phenomena with the natural time scale
- Forest and Field do meet: in which are hold more living than now
Vital
– http://vitaltool.tkk.fi/ Vital tool found there- HUT & Stanford co-operation: for years 2008-2010; virtual and mobile knowledge work research project; virtual learning cafe; quarterly meetings virtually; locally completed work should be creative how spaces; how measure virtual work; measurement to be utilized