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Your ideal working environment

What does it take to create a working environment that stimulates productivity, collaboration and knowledge sharing? On this question I am initiating a conversation at Reboot 9.0.

Looking from a human, organizational and technological perspective, what does it take to create a working environment where we feel happy, where we are productive, where we collaborate and share knowledge? What practices and tools do you consider essential for your ideal working environment? And… how do we balance the freedom, trust, responsibility, and social cohesion in such an environment?

Not only at Reboot, but also here I would like to hear what you consider essential to achieve this. At BlogWalkEleven we already started a discussion on key ingredients that are needed to keep creative, heavily networked, independent thinkers (”Digital Bohemians”) happy within the boundaries of an organization:

• Providing them with opportunities to share their passions
• A healthy mix of freedom, trust, responsability and social cohesion. The latter actually requires that their passions are shared by other people in the organization.
• Access to the resources they need in order to keep up-to-date (digital libraries, blogs, RSS feeds)
• Access to the resources they need to keep connected: their own blog, Skype, conferences, gatherings of like-minded people. I am missing things here, please add…
• Recognition of success: their added value to the company is in bringing creative new ideas from unforeseen perspectives, linking previously unlinked developments, understanding and explaining how new technology developments could impact the organization.

I’m more then happy to hear your thoughts on this. And hopefully we have a chance to discuss this in-person in Denmark.