Organise your way to renewed focus and calm Smart Work is the busy professional's guide to getting organised in the digital workplace. Are you drowning in constant emails, phone calls, paperwork, interruptions and meeting actions? This book throws you a lifeline by showing you how to take advantage of your digital tools to reprioritise, refocus and get back to doing the important work. You may already have the latest technology, but if you're still swamped, you're not using it to your advantage. This useful guide shows you how to leverage the technology you have to centralise your work into one integrated tool. You'll develop a simple and sustainable productivity system to organise your actions, manage your inputs and achieve your outcomes. The highly visual nature of the book helps you quickly grasp the ideas you need most. Like most professionals, you want to do great work and achieve great things. But when half your day is spent on emails, phone calls and 'extra' duties, you rarely get a chance to shine. This book changes that. Get back in control so you can start performing like a star. Get organised, focused and proactive Conquer the daily incoming deluge Spend more time on important work Leverage your desktop and mobile technology When work is coming at you from every direction, it's difficult to focus and prioritise. Things get lost in the shuffle. But when you channel everything into a single stream, you settle into a flow and get more accomplished in less time. Smart Work is your guide to finding your flow— and the bottom of your inbox.

It is more possible than ever to influence and shape our working environments, our experience of work and each other. Business leaders who set the conditions and create engaging, meaningful work through organisational design and use of the knowledge and creative potential of their workforces are engaging in smart working. In Smart Working: Creating the Next Wave, Anne Marie McEwan explains how smart working is more than just flexible and mobile working. It is about flexibility and autonomy - how people work, not just where and when. She argues that systems, working environments and governance are more likely to lead to effective performance if they maximise self-determination and choice. She describes how collaborative communication technologies create possibilities for stimulating and harnessing collective intelligence, within and beyond organisational boundaries. In short, smart working is an outcome of designing organisational systems that are good both for business and people. McEwan warns that the tendency to talk about new management paradigms risks overlooking insights derived from years of academic research, and particularly from lessons learned from process innovation methodology. This rigorously researched but intensely practical book examines current workplace trends relating to people, technology, place and space. It reviews what we already know about effective management and high performance work methods and shows how those insights can be used to advantage in contemporary workscapes. It will help those with responsibilities for the strategic direction of their organizations. Learning and development and HR professionals will understand how to interpret these insights for their own business.

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of Smart Working (SW) and Distance Learning (DL), leading to concerns about their overall effectiveness despite initial efficiency. Limited research on the positive and negative effects of these practices has left decision-makers ill-equipped to navigate their complexities. To address this knowledge gap, Innovation Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Smart Working, edited by Beatrice Orlando from the University of Ferrara, Italy, provides a comprehensive resource to explore the multifaceted effects of SW and DL. The book covers topics such as efficiency, effectiveness, knowledge management, individual impact, and broader social, economic, and business implications, equipping both academic scholars and practitioners with the necessary knowledge to understand and leverage SW and DL effectively. It empowers decision-makers to make informed choices, develop innovative strategies, and maximize benefits while mitigating potential negative effects. By offering a comprehensive examination of the present and future impact of SW and DL, Innovation Capabilities and Entrepreneurial Opportunities of Smart Working emerges as an indispensable solution. The book enables scholars to contribute groundbreaking research and assists practitioners in making informed decisions that will shape the future of work and learning in the digital age. With its fresh insights and evidence-based research, it equips readers to navigate the complexities of SW and DL, driving meaningful change and fostering innovation in organizations and educational institutions.

Are you interested in smarter working? Do you or your workforce carry out tasks away from the office - and do you have the managerial and technical know-how to get the best from them? In The Smarter Working Manifesto, Philip Vanhoutte and Guy Clapperton talk to the experts, the practitioners, the managers, the academics, and recommend best practices for making more money out of a happier workforce. People can be in charge of their own workplace, they can work to their own timetable and their company can benefit. Read this book to find out: Why we work where we do - and why it's changing How to evaluate and improve your workplace How to get the most out of a remote workforce How to build a virtual team How to make your organization more profitable and smarter The authors have drawn on experience internationally to create the definitive work on how to build the best workplace, both on and off your premises, for the 21st century. www.smarterworkingmanifesto.com

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference "Smart Working, Living and Organising" on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2018, held in Portsmouth, UK, in June 2018. The 17 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They deal with the adoption of new classes of technology used by individuals, organisations, sectors and society with a particular focus on how emerging technologies are adopted and appropriated in organisations and everday life and their impact. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: being smart: adoption challenges; sharing economy and social media; government and infrastructure; IT project management; and revisiting concepts and theories.

From one of the top HR specialists in the world comes this much-needed guide to help people maximize productivity and increase revenue. Whether it’s in corporate America or in our own living rooms, people are wasting time. From the minute we wake up and check our Facebook page or emails—before we even crawl out of bed—to late at night when we stay up longer than we should, watching our favorite show. There’s a precise moment that falls between working enough hours to be productive and working too many hours, yielding a diminishing marginal return. The difference between the person able to master this and most Americans that fail miserably at it is quality of life! If one continues to work past this moment, a negative return will ensue, and that negative return produces guilt. It lowers the amount of time for recreational activities and spending time with family. We’ve siloed productivity to our work life, however; the impact on our personal life is often loss. An alarming 39% of workers in high-tech companies believe they are depressed, as reported by PC Magazine in December 2018. 72% of people who have daily stress and anxiety say it interferes with their lives—anxiety and stress alone have reduced productivity by 56%. More than 80% of people have experienced some form of anxiety, stress, or depression in the workplace. People are spending more time at work than at home or with their loved ones; or, if they are at home, they are working. They are always “on.” As a result of this disparity, people are not fully living their lives. And the “work-life balance” marketed by some HR consulting firms and employers simply does not work. It’s all work and no life! Studies have also proven that when people are unhappy in their personal lives or careers, their productivity goes down and everything and everyone around them suffers. This causes a domino effect, which trickles into every area of their lives. Previous generations used to say, “Work harder,” but we’ve now learned we must “work smarter.” Polak has practiced and tested his methods in hundreds of opportunities and has been paid millions by the largest corporations in the world to share these tools. He feels that every individual and business should have these tools, and will share them with us here.

Freedman demonstrates to today's corporate managers and high-tech professionals that the seemingly chaotic world of corporate communication actually has a structure and that the structure, or syntax, can be decoded and used to one's advantage.