“Understanding Virtual Office in a Green Virtual World” Moving Ideas, Not People Version 2019

1. “Understanding Virtual Office in a Green Virtual World”Moving Ideas, Not PeopleVersion 2019 Written by Thomas B. Cross TECHtionary.com

2. Throughout this presentation we will concentrate on only one or two highlights per slide to help maximize our time. That is, not all the points on the each slide can be covered in this one hour presentation. Our other videos and “live” seminars present more detail on specific areas of interest and technology solutions you may need for your company.

3. Least you forget, The White House is a home office

4. “Meanwhile back at the Ranch”

5. Time Compressed

6. Driving Factors • Corporate downsizing, in/outsourcing, impact of IT • New “casual” work life • Disintegration of the old • Convergence of applications • Sales, helpdesk, accounting, engineering - all-in-one Is the “office of the future” here?

7. Technologies • Falling costs • Cheap everything • Technology convergence • Voice, video, FAX, email, paging, mobile • New technologies coming • Desktop video, • Virtual reality • AI

8. New Applications Abound Room Teleconferencing Thoughts Expert Simulation 1,000 Imaging Concepts Workstation to Super Computer Wildcards 500 Mobile Video Jobs Aids 100 Bandwidth Requirements (KBPS) Wearable Tech 4 Desk Sharing Artificial Tech Mainframe 2 Internet 0 2020 1980s 2000’s

9. “Quietest Revolution” • 20 million small office businesses • 10 million revenue-generating home businesses • 10 million “after-hours” home offices • 30 million VO workers

10. Health Pressures Emerge • Clean Air Act - car pooling has failed and no more supply of roads, focus on the demand side • Sick building syndrome • ADD - cost or opportunity • Negative impact from auto accidents • Weather disruption - snow and bad air days

11. Driving Business Issues • Enhance productivity • Increase communications • Outsource everything • Automate field operations • Virtual office - reduce office and parking space

12. What VO is NOT • It is not just working at home - you may work at the customer site and to your home • It is not just using a lot of technology • It does not mean that you work in your car • It does not mean that you need to rebuild your home • It does not mean you work all the time

13. Isolation is a mythit is a result of organizationalvelocity

14. Organizational Velocity

15. Office Parties

16. What VO is • Space freedom • Anywhere - beach, bed, bath • Time freedom • Now, then, when • Technology freedom • People don’t compute, they communicate

17. What VO is • Task freedom • Concentrate on what is important – focus on ideas/problems, not just people being in the meeting • Job freedom or retention • Communications freedom • Communications will always fail except by chance

18. Any Place can VO • Meetings - anywhere, in the park • Working at the library with a paper pad • Calculators on the plane • Dictation in the car • 2-way paging on a hike • Pajama conferences

19. Any Time Can Telecommute • Meetings - audio conferences • Reading email anytime • Groupware conferences - “over-time” • Voice mail and FAX meetings

20. What Time Suits You? Are you a morning or night person?

21. Virtual Everything - Anywhere-AnytimeImport-Export Jobs Online

23. Questions??? • Why do you go to the office? • Are you comfortable at your desk? • Do you work with warm friendly people? • Are you really safe in the office?

25. How much time are you commuting? • How much time do you have during the day to really concentrate on your work?

27. 21 Days A Year Behind the Wheel

28. = 1 or more Concentration Commuting In other words, the more time you have to concentrate the better.

29. = 4 4 hours of Concentration 0 hours Commuting In other words, the more time you have to concentrate the better.

30. How much time are you in meetings? • Do you really need to be there every time? • Are these meetings internally focused or with customers?

31. How much time do you spend commuting? • 10,000 miles per year = 333 hours • 15,000 miles per year = 500 hours • 20,000 miles per year = 666 hours • 30,000 miles per year = 1,000 hours

32. Are You Ready Yet? • Do you need to work with people in Europe or the Far East? • Do you need outside expertise? • Is your work “time zone” related?

34. Are you in control of your day? Or, is the day in control of you? • Are you interrupt-driven?

36. Flextime goes Flexplace “After hours”

38. Flex-places • Coffee shops • Coop space • Home • Hotel Lobbies • Customer locations • Car/airplane/bus/train/ bicycle/taxi/mountain

39. Hotel/motel - “hoteling” • Neighborhood work/rally center • Executive office suite • Co-location with customer/supplier

40. Network Neighborhood

41. Digital Highways

42. “I want to conduct my business not from my office but on the ski slopes.”Charlie Nichols

43. California Goes Home

44. Old Bedrooms, New Offices

45. And, for the rest of us, maybe the beach is the place to be!

46. Let us not forget what we are working for! • Would you like to work on the ski slope , the beach, on horseback or at sea? Or, like Winston Churchill from bed.

47. Any Person can VO • Travel agent • Architect • Writer/author/attorney • Salesperson • Data entry clerk - helpdesk • Police officer - are you kidding? • Anyone can - at least part of the time

48. Cyber Court

49. Jobs • Communications-intensive jobs • Look at communication-types • Person-to-self • Person-to-person • Person-to-group • Person-to-all - all-to-person