Consulting
Strategic Research on the impacts of the Web on business models, organizational structures and the dynamics of interaction
Ethnographic Research into the impacts of our increasingly interactive environment on your business and your organization's strategy and structure
Strategic Advice on the design and use of blogs, wikis, intranets, and knowledge exchanges
This research and advice takes shape in the following forms:
Strategic reviews - of organizational structure and it's related social and technological architectures, to help you optimize current initiatives - or what you're planning to implement.
Research and recommendations - of useful new collaborative tools for the interconnected Knowledge Workplace.
Preparation - for the coming major changes, working with you to design and carry out strategic change based on effective, high-involvement, vision-and-values-driven principles.
Strategic consulting - acting as a trusted adviser; review plans, identify potential stumbling blocks, develop initiatives and serve as a sounding board
Participative Work Design - to increase workers' flexibility, effectiveness and sense of meaning
Social Network Analysis - mapping the invisible workplace (who knows who, who knows what, and where does work get done?)
Collaborative Work Technologies - design, implementation, practice
Scenario Planning - what might the future look like ... forewarned is forearmed
Facilitation and Workshops - to design new initiatives, or adapt to changing conditions
To learn more or if you have specific questions, contact me: jonhusband ATgmail.com or call 1-604-689-1671
I have more than twenty years of international experience, and:
- understand how hierarchies have been built and how they function
- understand the changing nature of work
- understand the impacts of pervasive smart software and interconnectedness
- understand the central role people play in the sustainable effectiveness of an organization
- use the principle of Wirearchy to bring rapidly-changing workplace dynamics into a coherent integrated perspective
- serve committed and caring managers and executives as an authentic, tell-the-truth coach