Tertulia

Our September 23 roundtable (a.k.a. tertulia) is taking shape. The topic is based on a challenge Jay Brand raised at the last symposium: How can a company increase the number of their staff by 50% during the next year, without increasing (or perhaps even decreasing) the amount of physical office space. We plan to discuss an overall strategy as well as important ground rules for implementation.

Our next Tertulia will be on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) and the Workplace.
Date: December 10, 2009
Time: 9 to 11 am-PST
Place: WebEx Only

We held our first completely virtual tertulia Thursday, September 24. Attending were members from the United States and Europe. The group discussed the trends and context for Work 2020, a scenario that assumes a significant increase in the cost of energy in the next decade.


Eilif Trondsen of SRIC-BI sponsored a meeting of the NewWOW Tertulia on Tools for Collaboration. The meeting took place April 16 at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA. It featured a panel of academic and industry experts on the use of tools such as virtual worlds and social network analysis.

The speaker presentations are now in the member library. They are:

• Eilif Trondsen: What Role May Virtual Worlds Play in Future Collaborative Work? http://www.newwow.net/members/node/1160
  
• Nic Ducheneaut: For Fun And For Profit: Using Online Games to Model Collaboration

December Tertulia
Our December Tertulia, held December 11 at Cisco’s Milpitas campus, was a huge success and the best-attended yet. Our guides to Cisco's Connected Workplace were Larry Matarazzi, Don Doyle and Peggy Stritch. We visited their latest workplace designed for their engineering team. You can find details about the event, including presentation slides at: http://www.newwow.net/members/node/1001

At the Fall 2008 Tertulia (September 25), Glenn Dirks and Edel Keville reviewed lessons learned about distributed work as a result of Sun's merger with MySQL. MySQL has been featured in Fortune magazine as a virtual organization success story- with 400 employees, in 30 countries, 70% of whom work from home.

NewWOW's Spring '08 Tertulia featured a presentation by Michael Joroff, MIT, Mattias Bergman, Infrastructure Solutions Group, and Anthony Townsend, Institute For The Future. They discussed strategies for Capturing Business in Integrated Workplace and Real Estate Project Markets. We have uploaded their presentation slides and notes of the discussion at: http://www.newwow.net/members/node/809

The January 10th Tertulia was held in Haworth's showroom in San Francisco. Eric Richert presented the conclusions from his recent study on Distributed Work Group Practices. After his presentation, the audience provided a high-level critique of Eric's research. Virtual connections via remote video conference nodes were set up in Helsinki, Calgary, and Holland (MI).

Nineteen members of the New Ways of Working Network “met” with six members of HP’s Halo Research Group for the largest and certainly most distributed Tertulia ever. Thanks to the efforts of Brad Allen of the Halo Group, the Tertulia convened using the HP Halo Collaboration Studio with groups in Palo Alto, Chicago, Corvallis, and Bristol, UK.

David Coleman, President and founder of Collaborative Strategies a collaborative technology analysis and consulting firm, spoke at our April 2006 Tertulia. His topic: Virtual Team Spaces – What are they and why are they important?