Can you help each employee do each task as well as possible? Can you even do that with less effort that a more "traditional" approach?

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Working remotely is perhaps the most challenging situation, yet my findings apply also to workers of all kinds whether they work in a small remote unit or they work physically in the office at the headquarters. Here are the six needs I have identified, that if fulfilled lead to better work done fast and at lower costs.

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Business managers seldom put a high value on something as technical as the information architecture of the intranet. But not doing so leads to a number of issues. Here are five business situations where poor intranet information architecture has a direct business impact.

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The development of physical workplace optimization started shortly after the launch of the first industrial revolution more than 250 years ago. When production moved from small workshops to factories, it became apparent that the workplace needed to be organized beyond what employees were doing naturally. Managers looked for ways to improve the way work was done. As a result, methods like flow production, just in time manufacturing or total quality management improved productivity, reduced costs or increased quality of both product and services in ways never seen before.  

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