User:Digital bite/The Hybrid Organisation

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The Hybrid Organisation ‘Hybrid Organisations’ are those that combine the three elements of people, workplace and technology in equal measure. [1] A successful organisation would be one that empowered its people to work in the way they would be most productive, allowing them to be measured by outputs – empowered through innovative and flexible workplace design and a range of technologies and tools that help them do their jobs more effectively.

The Hybrid Organisation is a business concept created by Microsoft in 2010. Working with experts from the fields of social change, [2] workplace design, [3] economics, [4] technology [5] and public sector development.[6] Microsoft identified several characteristics of businesses and organisations that are best placed to thrive in uncertain times.

The 20 Point Plan[edit]

A 2010 whitepaper [7] concluded that building a Hybrid Organisation depended on 20 different points that are grouped into the following five core themes:

  1. Solving the people puzzle: Changing workforce demographics and working style
  2. There's no 'I' in Team: collaborative processes and information flow
  3. Here, there and everywhere: Infrastructure and operations
  4. Simply making it work: technology and tools
  5. The cost of change: risks, rewards and return on investment

Hybrid Operational Models[edit]

There are 5 Hybrid Operational Models:[8]

  1. The 'Holistic' Organisation
  2. The ' Follow-Me' Organisation
  3. The 'Bump' Organisation
  4. The 'Untraditional' Organisation
  5. The 'People-First' Organisation


Microsoft continues to work with independent experts to explore the Hybrid Organisation concept and create useful content for those looking to learn more about going ‘Hybrid’.


References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.thehybridorganisation.com
  2. ^ Professor Michael Hulme, Lancaster University and Peter Flade, Gallup Consulting
  3. ^ Philip Ross, Cordless Group
  4. ^ Graeme Leach, Institute of Directors and Peter Hemington, BDO LLP
  5. ^ Dave Coplin, Microsoft UK and Ken Wood, Microsoft Research Cambridge
  6. ^ Charlotte Aldritt, Volterra
  7. ^ http://www.thehybridorganisation.com/white-papers/creating-the-hybrid-organisation/
  8. ^ http://www.thehybridorganisation.com/white-papers/the-hybrid-organisation-in-practice-making-it-work-2011/

External links[edit]

  • FT Digital Business: Work-life balance: yesterday's news?[1]
  • FT UK: Adapt or die, businesses warned[2]
  • Microscope: Analysis: Hybrid offices provide resellers with mobility pitch[3]
  • CIO UK: Is Microsoft’s Hybrid Organisation neither fish nor flesh? [4]
  • Computing: Microsoft launches 'Hybrid Organisation' initiative [5]
  • Computer Weekly: Cost and productivity benefits of the hybrid organisation[6]
  • IT Hound: Creating the Hybrid Organisation: making public and private sector organisations relevant in the New Economy [7]
  • Hybrid Org on Twitter [8]
  • Hybrid Org on YouTube [9]
  • Hybrid Org on Vimeo [10]



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