Small Business Labs

AUGUST 29, 2017

The need for external teams: This may seem paradoxical given driver #2, but it's not. These projects often require a team of people with specialized skills to complete a variety of tasks. This is leading to more independent workers to create either formal or ad hoc teams that can bid on larger and more complex projects.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 3, 2019

We've long followed Fiverr (we're also a customer) and we've always been impressed by their management team, strategy and business model. These include the hyperspecialization of jobs , the taskification of work ,and the growth distributed teams that include traditional employees and contingent labor. 

Filing 114

Filing 2010 Management UPS 114

Small Business Labs

JULY 1, 2019

Want Your Business to Thrive - Cultivate Your External Talent : The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Success Factors teamed up for study, which surveyed independent workers, managers who hire independent works and HR employees.  Freelance Economic Impact Report : Fiverr and Rockbridge Associates teamed on this study.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

To be welcomed by the client and treated as part of the team. They recently released a short video (below) that we think nicely captures 3 key things highly skilled independent workers are looking for in terms of assignments. These are: Access to diverse and interesting gigs. The opportunity the learn and build skills.

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Skills 2016 International Goals 177

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

  Much like a project consulting firm, Udacity bids on the project, puts together projects teams and provides project management services. This has a number of advantages for both the contractor graduates of Udacity's education programs and the firms hiring Udacity project teams. 

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 27, 2019

We’re able to find and work with the best talent in the world, no matter where they are, we have a higher than average retention rate across our team and our products reflect a diversity of perspective and experience that comes from having teammates from all across the country and around the world.”. the desire by many to work remotely.

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Lifestyle Forms AT&T UPS 119

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

  Firms are leasing shared space for everything from surge space to touchdown space for traveling executives to incubators for new products and project teams, among others. Flexible workspace providers are shifting their focus to target larger corporations and enterprise clients.

2018 187

2018 2019 2016 Travel 187

Small Business Labs

JANUARY 6, 2020

  Work is becoming more team and project-oriented, and the barriers separating traditional and independent work continue to erode. ." Korn Ferry goes on to say that corporations are going to need to attract and keep these nomads happy or miss out on a key source of top talent. We certainly agree.

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Payroll Skills Learning 130

Small Business Labs

MARCH 31, 2016

This is as the use of skilled external talent increases, so does the need for more efficient ways to find, hire, and manage contingent workers as well as integrate them into a company’s teams.

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International Skills AT&T Management 100

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 15, 2017

That software is best created by small, nimble teams, working closely with businesses and customers — not shipped to programmers half a world away.  Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software make it easier to coordinate work with and manage remote teams.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 19, 2015

We're also seeing a rise in the number of "loosely-coupled" groups of independent workers who team up to work together in a guild like way. And the growing interest in co-ops  and other forms of collective ownership is clearly leading to increasing numbers of guild-like organizations, with Prime Produce being a good example.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 4, 2017

  The other group - outside contractors - will increasingly work on hybrid teams with traditional employees. One group - the transactional remote worker - is hired for short term assignments, often through an app or some 3rd party platform. Think hiring people via Amazon Turk to categorize pictures, etc. 

Learning 162

Learning UPS 162

Small Business Labs

MAY 2, 2017

The 12 person research team visited each household on a weekly basis and attempted to track every dollar earned, spent, saved, borrowed, loaned out or given away.   The research team recently released a book based on the study: The Financial Diaries - How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty. This was no easy feat.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 23, 2015

  They selected 11 winning teams and each will get access to LinkedIn data and a $25,000 research grant. The research teams - mostly academics - will crunch LinkedIn data in hopes of drawing some new insights on the global economy and job markets.

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Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This means the senior team at GE is now aware of digital nomads. Having someone in her position supporting digital nomadism makes it much more likely GE will allow others to become digital nomads. Related to this, she was able to pitch the chief human relations officer (CHRO) at GE on her experiences. million American digital nomads.

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2019 Policies Google Travel 113

Small Business Labs

JUNE 16, 2016

The firms also seem to recognize the growing need for tools that support blended teams of independent workers and traditional corporate employees.    While there are other reasons for this deal, it's clear that both firms recognize that independent work and blended teams are becoming increasingly common. 

Networking 100

Networking Collaborate International Skills 100

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Right now, there are more than 70 teams in the Labs. Team quality has never been higher & incredibly-interesting stuff is being worked on.    The waiting lists in each location range from over 60 to over 100 interested teams. About 100 total DPL companies — or about one third — have received funding.

Networking 100

Networking 100

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

 Key quote: Ashford’s team found that to make their work life psychologically sustainable, independent workers craft physical and social spaces that infuse their work lives with a sense of meaning.  It's exciting to see a University of Michigan team digging into it.

AT&T 100

AT&T 100

Small Business Labs

JUNE 3, 2011

The book Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity  provides a a roadmap to new ideas, and helps business leaders at all levels unleash their creativity and creativity of their teams. One of the key themes of the book is that Jazz combos are excellent examples of innovative, high performance teams.   

AT&T 100

AT&T Management Learning 100

Small Business Labs

MAY 14, 2012

They are sponsoring a 12 week residential accelerator program that will provide $25,000 in funding, classes on entrepreneurship, mentoring and networking for 10 startup teams. At the end of 12 weeks, each team will present to local and national Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors on our Showcase Day on November 28.

Mentoring 100

Mentoring Networking UPS 100

Small Business Labs

JULY 19, 2013

"   Vooza consists of a team of comedians focused on making fun of the startup world. They coined this term in their spoof video on startups (shown below). My favorite line from the movie - "you gotta take that call and say sorry, I can't talk right now."

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Social Media Goals AT&T 100

Small Business Labs

JUNE 25, 2013

“Based on the problem we need to solve we will put together a team, and it’s an informal project structure that’s organic, and adaptive." " These teams also drive their business model, which is based in part on keeping their overhead expenses low.

Networking 100

Networking Agencies Collaborate Expenses 100

Small Business Labs

MARCH 3, 2014

The Institute of Culinary Education and IBM have teamed up to create a food truck that uses cognitive computing to help chefs create new dishes.

Twitter 100

Twitter Learning UPS 100

Small Business Labs

MARCH 26, 2015

But a father-and-son team from Australia have developed an innovative beekeeping system - Honey on Tap -  that simplifies the process and makes it easier for both the keeper and the bees. And the process of collecting the honey has always been difficult (just ask Winnie the Pooh).

Finance 100

Finance 100

Small Business Labs

JUNE 19, 2017

They can and will if they don't fix their management team and bring in adult leadership.  .  Also, as long as they offer compelling jobs - and their mission to re-engineer global transportation is very compelling - people will want to work there. This is not to say Uber won't fail.

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2017 AT&T Email Management 138

Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

While exact functionality is yet to be determined, Mac Rumors says: Functionality will vary by ballpark, with individual teams having significant input and control over what users will see. Baseball will use iBeacon to connect to their existing At the Ballpark mobile app. marketing Mobile trends Web/Tech'

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

.  Key quote on their definition of "the open workforce": Organisations are increasingly finding themselves managing an “open workforce” – one in which talent and resources are spread across a complex mix of in-house teams, freelancers, contractors and external business partners.

Management 100

Management 100

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 22, 2015

Make them feel part of the team. Doing a good job managing independents goes a long way to ensuring your firm will be a "client of choice" for this important source of talent.    The article covers seven tips, which are: Understand what they want. Set expectations. Build the relationship. Don’t micromanage. Give feedback.

Management 100

Management AT&T Skills 100

Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

increasing collaboration across teams, geographies and organizations is leading to the growing use of cloud based collaboration tools. There are other drivers of the shift to the cloud, including: The shift to mobile computing is increasingly requiring cloud storage so files are easily available across multiple devices and geographies.

Collaborate 100

Collaborate Budget Filing 100

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

They want their work valued, control over their time and to be seen as part of the team. .      These results show the common view that independent workers have to take any work offered them is simply wrong, at least for skilled professionals who sell their services to businesses.

2015 100

2015 Skills Goals Management 100

Small Business Labs

AUGUST 27, 2014

increasing collaboration across teams, geographies and organizations is leading to the growing use of cloud based collaboration tools. Growing numbers of applications are cloud based due to the use of large datasets or the need for computing horse power. Use of these cloud apps are exposing more businesses to the cloud.

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Collaborate Google Filing 100

Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

  Our candidate will be working directly with the world-renowned Sabi Sands Wild Life Reserve team. .  This will be the chance of a lifetime to do something for a species at risk and a tremendous opportunity to enhance a CV for future work.    Jobs do not get any cooler than this!

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Lifestyle Travel AT&T Skills 100

Small Business Labs

MAY 19, 2010

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team. Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. " Zingale said.

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Social Media 2010 Retirement 2020 100

Small Business Labs

APRIL 18, 2012

The Kaufman Foundation and LegalZoom have teamed up to produce a quarterly Startup Confidence Index. The goal of the index is to measure how much confidence startups have in their business and the economy. Their  most recent survey shows that 53% of startups are home-based.   Independent workers (freelancers, contractors, etc.)

Confidence 100

Confidence Networking Goals UPS 100

Small Business Labs

APRIL 16, 2013

Staffing firm Allegis and the Human Capital Institute teamed up on a study on how corporate procurement and HR departments view the growing contingent workforce.   It's a broad based study looking at a number of issues related to the contingent workforce.

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2020 AT&T UPS 100

Small Business Labs

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Analogies , useful ideas or systems in other teams, business units, companies, or industries. Extremities , such as fringe members of stakeholder groups who push for solutions. Voyages , whereby innovators leave their offices to visit colleagues or customers.

2007 100

2007 International 100

Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The Landlord Wants a Cut  developers are even thinking about teaming up their tenants to rent rooms via Airbnb. .  So developers and real estate moguls large and small are seeing the opportunity to create businesses using Airbnb. And according to the Wall Street Journal's  Rent Your Place on Airbnb?

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