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I have been thinking a lot about my ideal virtual office, influenced by four ideas from different spheres:
- My experience with social networks at EMC has shown me how I can develop working relationships with people I would normally never meet, either because of distance, or because they sit in a different silo (business unit), or because they are separated from me by several degrees in the management hierarchy.
- A video about the new Microsoft Research Lab building in Redmond introduced me to the idea of buildings being designed for reconfiguration by the employees as needed.
- Jon Brouchoud’s presentation on wikitecture, where he identified the ideas of modularity and remixing of design components
- Enterprise mashups which allow the user to configure any elements they desire into their user interface
