Kushult Ideation
SHARP AND CREATIVE
Combining a free and healthy lifestyle with thoughtleadership in bringing business people and values together with IT and technology.
ABOUT VIRTUAL LIFE
Why be locked down by an physical office when you can get both freedom of location and effective collaborations wherever you choose to be?
For many years I worked as a consultant with customers that only trusted their coworkers when they saw them on location. This mindset is not rational, but rather a perceived security by managers of controlling their subjects, going back to old industrial values.
Nowadays I work in a very large global company where there is no point being tied to a specific office so I can work from wherever I want, as long as I deliver what is expected of me.
This is a good idea since it makes my contribution important, not my location. In a digital world it is all about what value you can bring to the table, not where or who you are.
Over the years, social norms in organisations are changing, and based on new approaches in software development there are lessons to be learnt.
SHARING EXPERIENCES
AGILE ORGANIZATIONS
Agile culture and mindset is more than adopting a new methodology and/or tools. Actual decision are made at the endpoints which require much more trust in an organisation.
It potentially should change the way the whole organization work and act. Instead of inventing new tools and services for a potential customer Agile organizations will invent new tools and services together with their consumers.
BEING A VIRTUAL CONTRIBUTOR
With new technology available and changing organisational culture towards virtual employees and other contributors, new challenges arrive.
Social norms and soft values needs to be managed to support being a virtual contributor to an organisation.
AUTONOMOUS LIVING
Being a able work in virtual communities makes your physical presence less relevant. This opens up for living where you choose. Leveraging new technology you can improve quality of life and have little negative impact on the planet.
Our society is based on older industrial values not suited for the effects of having virtual contributors.
INITIATIVES
Trying to live according to new possibilities there are a number of initiatives to be explored.
Initiatives will change over time but the ambition and objectives are described above. The following areas of interest will colour the initiatives explored.
- New technology
- Social norms and values
- Managing relationships through contracts
- Improved infrastructure
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