Who are our members?

• There are currently about 40 members, working for a wide range of institutions and international corporations

Who is driving our network?

• Dr. Marie Puybaraud, Director Global WorkPlace Innovation and Dr. Anne Marie McEwan, founder of The Smart Work Company head up the GMN network

How can I join?

• To join the network please contact Dr. Marie Puybaraud, Director Global WorkPlace Innovation
  The annual membership fee is 150 GBP + VAT

According to Microsoft “the perception of the corporate as a stand alone entity is as out of date as prohibition and sneak oil”… are our workplaces fragmenting into eco systems of partnerships and alliances? If so, this has implications for workplace relations. We need to step outside of our silos and shrink the social distance between ourselves and those we have to communicate and integrate with. 





The roundtable discussion aims to engage you to share your experience:

• Are you being challenged in your identity?
• Are you being forced to adapt your own culture and perspective?
• How do you shrink social distance amongst “tribes” of mobile workers?
• What role can technology play?

Learning:
Managing the social cohesion across networks and diverse cultures, geographically dispersed teams and across generations and knowledge specialism:

• Groups, tribes, clans with different identities
• Co-location
• Emerging technologies to support emotional cohesion
• Specialism and social distances – how far can you be isolated?
• IT/FM/HR implications of shrinking social distance amongst different networks

• Shrinking social distance

• Workplace to Zero
• Surviving the cultural mash up
• Linking Talent Management and Knowledge Management
• Using place to bridge workplace boundaries
• Knowledge Management & Enterprise Social Networking

• Brandocracy in the workplace, with Steelcase in London