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Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom:
We have come to England to contemplate our changing perception of the nature of
time, and what better small business to explore than one with a name, "Time
Technology, Ltd." This business first came to our attention because they have
won many awards. But, something far more important was happening here. These
people were taking the concept of time management to another level in a way
that seemed to be shaking up the concept of time itself. Also, given that they
are located virtually on Universal Time (also know as Greenwich Mean Time), it
seemed particularly symbolic to open our discussion about time. |
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| In today's interconnected world, the question
today gets less and less easy to answer: "Just what time is it?" If three
people are collaborating, one in England, one in Australia and somebody in
Dallas, whose time is the "real" time? Each has their own. Is there a "new"
common time? Of course, there is. But, just what time is it? |
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| In this episode of the show, you meet Rosemary
& Nigel and Peter Skeffington. They introduce us to the rather simple
technology -- collaboration software -- that takes people from many different
time zones into the same time and creates a ubiquitous space that everybody
shares. |
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Rosemary Skeffington |
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collaborative technologies. They're not terribly concerned that this technology
raises some real questions about our perception of time. For them, it is just a
fact that literally hundreds of people can be part of an online meeting,
working on the same content, though separated by time zones and
continents. |
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is grasping for a new language to interpret it. In this episode as well as many
others, you'll hear different discussions about small business issues that all
pivot out of an effort to understand the very nature of time, excellence, and
our insight into universal truth. |
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| You'll hear about Six Sigma in this
episode, essentially process control put on a rigorous program to move it
toward a higher perfection. In other episodes it takes on other forms and faces
-- Kaizen, Total Quality Management (TQM), I-Power, Continuous
Improvement Cycle, Deming Cycle, Theory of Constraints, Drucker's time
management, Baldrige Quality Awards and so on. |
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| Most of us have a rather commonsense perception of
time. "What time is it?" We'll look at our watch, tell the time, and assume we
are correct or close enough. Yet, there is a strange fluidity to time. And,
when you link up with others in other time zones through our web-based
technologies, there is a new "common time" that everybody shares. |
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| Time and space are so fundamental most of us
just take the two for granted. It may seem just like another application of
technology, but we believe it is the beginning of a very significant revolution
-- we are at long last breaking free of long-held beliefs about what is
possible within a given space and time. |
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 CONTACT:
Time Technology Ltd.
Brook House
Mint Street
Godalming
Surrey GU7 1HE
England
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 863 000
Fax: +44 (0) 1483 425 075
E-mail:
Click here.
URL:
http://time-technology.co.uk
Go to Godalming: AD899 By
1881, the first town in the world with electric public street
lighting. |
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| Key Ideas for
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- AIR TIMES This
episode of the show has already aired in most major markets.
- MORE CASE
STUDIES BY BUSINESS TYPE. These are key ideas that you can use to check
your own people/product/processes and apply each to building your business.
Other stories of people working within Information Technologies may help. Or,
research businesses within your
industry.
- EIGHT
STEPS. We all go through many of the same problems and make the
same mistakes. One of the purposes of this show is to have others mentor us and
show us the way.
The business owners who are profiled here have been
selected by their communities as role models
for the rest of us. They have successful businesses and they are generous
people.
Time Technology, Ltd. is moving beyond
STEP 6 of growth to
Step 7
of sustainability. And with Peter now running the show, Nigel and Rosemary have
been able to move to
Step
8.
- Implement collaboration software. In 1995
you heard on this show, "Get an email address and a web site and become
24x7-global."
Now you are
hearing our second technology suggestion -- collaboration is not a fad; it
is a fundamental change in the way we work with people throughout the world and
even within our local communities. The technology exists on everybody's
desktop today; you just have to open it up and use it.
Focus on your top ten relations. To use
collaboration technology effectively, consider the ten most important relations
in your business. You hear Hattie say, "Relations are the primary real."
Relations are what really matter in business as well as our personal life. What
makes the relation important?
Our lists include viewers, sponsors, MasterClass
teachers (the stars of each show), PBS-member station folks, professors who
advise us, and colleagues who help produce the show (then, the list grows
substantially when we add our friends and family).
Use collaboration among those top ten as your
informal board of advisors. Too many of us try to do it alone. The first
use of these collaboration tools will be among your customers and suppliers,
but there is good reason to begin using these tools to attenuate your "Top Ten"
to help you shape your business.
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Small Business
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North America. These broadcasts began in 1995. So for many years now, people
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GLOBAL
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for High Ku-Band).
This
show also airs on many PBS-member stations around the USA. Please
support your local public television station;
click here to read why we
do.
This particular
episode of the show is our first one outside of the United States; and because
of the increased viewership among all those people who receive Voice of America
TV and the many other satellite
signals, we'll be venturing outside of the USA more and more. Then, by
using collaboration tools with high-end video cameras and queuing applications,
we will begin doing "an open mike" with all our viewers. We'll take the latest
release of an episode and Hattie and Bruce will open each point of the case
study guide to analysis and discussion.
Can you imagine
having people in an open discussion from every continent and every time zone? A
dynamic, open, live webcast. We'll just call it an "The Small Business
School Open House" where we invite all our viewers and friends to
collaborate at the same time.
COMMENTS
OR QUESTIONS. We invite your comments and questions. Was the show
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