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PWC's 2017 Sharing Economy Predictions

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Medical equipment sharing platforms such as Cohealo have emerged across the Atlantic and as the UK healthcare system starts to collaborate more closely, we think 2017 will see the first opportunities for some NHS Trusts to share resources, including staff, equipment and estates in a more dynamic way - a trend we will be exploring in future blogs!

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Coworking Going to Pot

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Key quote from a Green Labs blog post : We provide startup marijuana companies with a collaborative work environment, access to necessary business resources and a forum for ongoing, industry-specific conversation. and hope to create a centralized space for marijuana professionals to speak and collaborate.

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The Growing Biotech Gig Economy

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  According to their blog post Talent in the Biotech Gig Economy , only 25 of the roughly 150 people working at Nimbus are traditional employees.  .  And the primary reason Nimbus hires gig workers is not to cut costs. It's to increase their business flexibility and agility and access hard to find, highly skilled talent. 

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The Rise of Digital Nomads

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The Internet and a growing array of telework and online collaboration tools are the key enablers of the digital nomad lifestyle. The oDesk blog has an interesting series of videos on digital nomads.   As long as they can find a decent Internet connection, laptop carrying nomads can work pretty much anywhere.

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The Emerging Project Economy

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Over at the MBO Partners Consulting Blog, Jay Lash's essay The Way Work Gets Done in the Emerging "Project Economy" examines the shift to project-based work.  Technology enables endless configurations of contributors to collaborate and produce work output."   It is well worth reading. 

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Book Review: The Fifth Age of Work

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.  It includes discussions on the importance of design and design thinking, activity based work, results oriented work environments (ROWE), coworking, innovation and various way companies and leaders can increase trust, openness and collaboration. And it's only $7.99 for the PDF or Kindle version.

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The Cloud's Impact on Business Models

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  Cloud services replace this slow, iterative and inefficient work process with real-time, 24/7 client data collaboration. Their blog contains covers the shifts caused by the mobile, cloud and other connective technologies. Cloud services also allow accounting firms to create self-service applications for their clients.