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Re-organization: new workplaces, new business models, social organizations
Lift 11 Session
February 2, 2011 - 16:30Work is being reinvented by new technologies, from email to skype to blackberry. We will explore several topics in this session: the new workplace, the new business models and the social organization.
Presentations
A new approach to designing business models
Alex Osterwalder (OSF, Switzerland)Alex tells us how organizations start approaching the challenge of designing business models in a radically new way. Companies learn how to test their business models upfront, ...
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Virtual organizations
Dorian Selz (Memonic, Switzerland)Dorian Selz's companies are great examples of what could be deemed virtual organizations. Flat hierarchies, less management, geographically dispersed teams are all part of his ...
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The story of a unique workplace: transplant
Alexandre Bau, Birgitta RalstonIn 2003, Parisian designers Birgitta and Alexandre decided to build their dream of a cross-competent creative workspace in an isolated village of Norway. This radical choice gave ...
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Neo-nomadism
Yasmine Abbas (neo-nomad, France)To soothe the stress of travel, today’s mobile individuals (neo-nomads) engage in tactics of re:location, recreating an image of home but producing a lot of waste. The spaces ...
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Open Stage: Google Translate, Skype conferencing, and the future of my career!
Jennifer Gay (myself!, France)Jennifer has been behind the scenes - or rather tucked away in a booth - at Lift for the past 4 years. Listening to and interpreting speakers talking about how technology is ...
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