5. Agile Communications Simplified.
Agenda
• Why meet and travel?
• What the environmental impact of travel?
• Organisational Challenges
• Who can benefit from travel reduction?
• Traditional barriers to adoption
• Three key elements to make travel avoidance compelling
• Five Steps to Adoption
• Organisational Benefits of reducing travel
• Cost Justification for reducing travel
6. Agile Communications Simplified.
Open University – Why Meet?
Business meetings are held to in order to
inform, discuss, present, collaborate, sell,
strategise etc., but overall the purpose is to
communicate and be co-present with people
and objects.
(Arnfalk and Kogg, 2002, pp 17, Lyons et al
.2008)
7. Agile Communications Simplified.
Open University – reason to travel (or not)
• Organisational Structure
• Greater use of project and innovation
teams
• Geographical dispersion
• More multi-site organisations
• Flattening hierarchy
• Greater employee independence
8. Agile Communications Simplified.
Open University – The environmental
impact
• Carbon emissions from the buildings of a
service sector organisation can be as much
as 2/3rd of overall carbon emissions
• Transport from commuting and business
travel can account for the remaining 1/3rd.
• Without consideration, transport will
become a larger proportion of overall
carbon emissions
10. Agile Communications Simplified.
Business Challenges - Work is changing
• 75% of all workers think that mobility
solutions are vital to the way we work
• Legislation is demanding more employment
flexibility
• People are increasingly focused on work/life
balance
• Up to 35% of your work time is down to
latency in communication
• The next generation workforce are more
technically savvy than most organisation
• Demand for ICT flexibility
• Public Sector under scrutiny to deliver
better services for less
11. Agile Communications Simplified.
Open University – The office
• Workstation and offices go unused for as
much as 2/3rds of the week. (Felstead et
al, 2005)
• Cost per desk space £9,000 per annum
(Watkinson, 2008)
• Energy usage per desk space 404kwh/m2
(Carbon Trust, 2003)
• Annual cost savings to UK economy from
flexible working by reducing turnover,
£287m and reduced absenteeism £3.2b
(Lister and Harnish)
12. Agile Communications Simplified.
Open University – The home
• Rebound effects
• Additional trips
• Heating
• Larger houses
• Location
• Benefits to local community and shops
• Need for longitudinal studies
• H&S impact/ Corporate responsibility
13. Agile Communications Simplified.
Barriers to adoption
• Corporate ICT infrastructure and
management
• Delivering a seamless experience
• Organisations culture
• Implementation Costs
• Complexity
15. Agile Communications Simplified.
What tools are available?
• The cloud is making powerful technology
more accessible
• Deployment costs are much lower
• Risk is greatly reduced
KEY: Flexibility
17. Agile Communications Simplified.
Open University – Benefits
Savings from office rationalisation and flexible working
• 1,800 years in travel time
• £700 million less per year on building infrastructure
Savings from home working per year
• 12 million litres of fuel at a cost of £10 million, equating to 54,000
tonnes of CO2
• Increased office efficiency
• Allocated desks only able to accommodate 1,000 people
• Using the office flexibly, average daily footfall of 10,000 people
18. Agile Communications Simplified.
Open University – Personnel Benefits
• Feel good factor
• Interdepartmental competition
• Individual targets
• Work life balance
• Story telling
• Training
22. Bye bye
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