IN THIS ISSUE
05
Agenda
How paper towels contribute to a healthier workplace
10
Dictation
Improve your note-taking with Olympus voice recorders
11
Collaboration
Sharp is targeting SMEs with a cloud-based
file sharing and collaboration solution
12
Cover Story
Sagem launches ultra-short throw, big screen projector
15
FlexibleWorking
How a flood in 2007 inspired Vodafone to
transform its working practices
19
Innovations
Smart technology for business people
in the office, at home or on the move
29
Meetings
How mobile technology is
transforming modern meeting culture
32
Video-conferencing
The benefits of hosted video communications for a fast-
growing provider of field service solutions
33
Virtual teams
Dominic Irvine shares his Top Tips for
managing virtual teams
36
Headsets
Why Sovereign Housing gave the nod to
Sennheiser headsets
37
SMS
Dr Pieter Streicher explains how SMS can
help SMEs punch above their weight
38
Wireless networks
Could 4G provide a solution to congestedWiFi
networks in UK businesses?
41
Scanners
What Fujitsu is doing to simplify
and speed up scanning
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Stay agile, even when wet
This month, as Tube workers went on strike and storms battered
the UK, creating travel chaos and sometimes shutting down
businesses altogether, large numbers of desperate organisations
will have turned to remote working and collaboration
technologies to get work done. The same happens every time
there is a freak weather event or any other interruption to the
smooth flow of trains and traffic.
Businesses that sample such technologies in times of crisis
often find their eyes opened to the benefits of remote
working, with long term benefits for their prosperity and
the well-being of their employees. One such is Vodafone,
which started exploring what it calls Better Ways of Working
after its campus was flooded in 2007. It didn’t get everything
right at first, but, as we find out on page 15, is now a firm
believer in the benefits of flexible working.
Start-ups and small firms work flexibly by default. Using
web-conferencing and collaboration technologies, many
are choosing to operate as virtual businesses with no shared
office space whatsoever. This can make good business and
financial sense, but it requires careful monitoring if it is to
work. Dominic Irvine, founder partner of Epiphanies, has
experienced both the highs and lows of virtual team-working.
On page 33, he shares his insights and offers Top Tips for
managing a dispersed workforce.
Something all organisations with a flexible, mobile workforce
have in common is a dislike of printing and paper. Piles of
paper are anathema to hot desking and aren’t something
that mobile workers want to lug around. But that doesn’t
mean that printer manufacturers aren’t contributing to agile
working. No doubt motivated by declining print volumes, many
are diversifying into cloud-based collaboration technologies
that, amongst other things, can be used to store and share
documents scanned on multifunctional printers. On page 11,
we report on a new service introduced by Sharp that could
prove useful in the best of times, as well as the worst.
James Goulding, Editor
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