At Baird’s CMC, we have been closely following the progress of M-Pesa in Kenya – the mobile phone based payment and money transfer service we predicted would be game-changing when it was first launched in 2007. With 17 million users in Kenya (more than two-thirds of the country’s adult population) and 25 percent of the […]
Ask CMC: Making the Most of Remote Meetings
Tips, tricks, advice, and answers for the 21st century global workspace. Dear Baird’s CMC, I am part of a virtual team and find that our frequent meetings are a bit of an ordeal. Some people are shy and awkward; others ramble on and on. We also seem to vacillate between long pauses and everyone trying to […]
Ask Baird’s CMC: Email signature
Tips, tricks, advice, and answers for the 21st century global workspace. Dear Baird’s CMC, I want to create an email signature for my professional correspondence. Since my company does not have a standardised format, I need some help. I have seen various email signatures using different styles and containing varied components. Which format is the […]
Baird’s CMC – Where idea meets action
By Chris Nial I’m lucky to work a group of talented people I truly respect and admire. Even though our office is based in a small Welsh village, on any given day we work on projects that put us in touch with our vast network of associates and colleagues based in five continents and over […]
All about crowdsourcing
By Chris Nial Crowdsourcing, a merge of the words “crowd” and “outsourcing”, is a product of the unique work culture that exists in our world today – a work culture in which space and time place no limitations on who we work with, when, and how. Matt H. Evans, in his article “The Power of […]