Seven Steps to Implementing an Agile Workplace A guide to help managers formalize a department or business-wide mobile officing arrangements within their organization.

There are many quantitative and qualitative reasons for beginning a mobile officing program, and/or for formalizing a mobile officing program. Many workers are already mobile, but the technological and cultural infrastructure to support them is absent. This short guide to developing a Mobile Officing Program is meant to help you, the facility manager, formalize a department or business-wide mobile officing arrangement within an organization. The reason for this is simple: benefits and cost-savings are a function of organized scale, and AgilQuest’s software was developed to support mobile officing across the globe. The more organized your company’s approach to mobile officing, the more substantial the benefits.

The Seven Steps to Implementing an Agile Workplace

Introducing the concept of mobile officing into your organization can have a dramatic impact across every department. After all, you’re changing the way your people go to work. Depending on your project’s goals and scope, the introduction of a flexible work style can impact one job type or all job types, one floor or one office, one office or an entire enterprise.

But like every other project, managing your organization’s transition to a mobile work style can be organized and scoped. The points below are the major concepts your mobile officing project team should consider from the beginning:

1. Goals and Scope of the Mobile Officing Program
2. Obtaining an Executive Sponsor for the program
3. The Project Team - Understanding the Change Management issues (based on items 4, 5, and 6 below)
4. Departmental Concerns and Roles
5. Determining how your employees work and defining the business processes
6. Factoring in your unique culture – Policies and Procedures
7. The Enterprise Implementation and getting the technologies right

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