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Joe Ouye and Hal Levin share two articles they wrote for publication. The shorter version will appear in the upcoming CoreNet Global Sustainability Community (No.1) Newsletter. The longer version will be posted on the CoreNet Global Sustainability Community website. Here's an excerpt from their introduction: "Despite what has been described as a 'perfect storm' that will result in significantly increased corporate attention on environmental sustainability, the opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) by how, where and when we work remains largely untapped.

Our latest library entry features an article written by Joe Aki Ouye, Ph.D. of New Ways of Working and Hal Levin from the Building Ecology Research Group. Here is their introduction:

Social media is a hot topic but much of the conversation is based on anecdotes or opinions. To remedy this situation, NewWOW scanned the academic and business press, talked with experts, and assembled a 21-page research summary that includes:

• Types of social media
  
• Business applications
  
• Studies & surveys
  
• Managing social media
  
• Tools for strategy planning, policies, implementation and monitoring.

We’ve uploaded the slides to the webinar presentation David Coleman made to the NewWow membership on June 3, 2010. David’s presentation was based on primary research done last year on how four organizations are adopting social networks. Topics include survey and interview results as well as a summary and analysis of social technology trends in the enterprise. Also included is recent research on Twitter that can help us answer the question: “Are social networks really social?”

Today, NewWOW shared its draft white paper, WORK 2020: The Effect of Higher Oil Prices on the Future of Work, with its membership. Using scenario analysis to examine how work systems would evolve under different possible future settings, the authors — Jim Creighton, Joe Ouye, and June Langhoff—looked at the larger context in which we will work.

Mike Joroff sent us a new study to share with the NewWOW group. Mike was writing in response to an article we featured last week on urban office parks (See http://www.newwow.net/members/node/1459#comment-968). Mike and a team from MIT are studying "new century city projects." He says these projects are a very new type of 21st century development and his "MT research and consulting teams are advising half of these and we are doing research about all of them." The report, New Century City Developments: Creating Extraordinary Value, was produced for a workshop held in Seoul in November.

David Coleman has contributed his latest white paper, Enterprise Social Collaboration Research Study, to our library. David's research addresses these questions: Which business processes lend themselves to social networks? Which industries and functional areas are more likely to adopt these collaborative technologies? He looked at three categories of social collaboration based on who populates them and what they are used for: Inside, Outside and Both.

Our latest library acquisition is a paper by Joe Ouye, "The Wickedness of Work-Systems Problems," a chapter in the book, Architecture-Design Methods-Inca Structures, by Johanna and Hans Dehlinger. Joe's paper describes the lack of appreciation or understanding of the wicked nature of work-systems problems. Wicked problems behave badly.

The white paper for Symposium 7, Shifting from “Change Management” to Systems Sensemaking and Design, by Dr. Terri Griffith, is now available in our library. Dr. Griffith, Professor of Management, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, will present her paper at next week’s symposium in Chicago.

“Organizational change programs continue to fail more than they succeed,” states Dr. Griffith.

The goal of her report is to push for greater sophistication on the part of those people bringing about change, equipping them to meet the demands being placed on them, and providing greater organizational support for their activities.

Sun's Open Work Services Group developed this white paper It is based on research by Glenn Dirks and Edel Kelville. The pair interviewed successful virtual managers at Sun, including people from MySQL, a company that merged with Sun earlier this year. MySQL's 400 employees are located in 30 countries and 70 percent of them work from home.