One of the pillars of agile ways of working is team collocation. Study after study shows that teams that work together in the same place report higher productivity and effectiveness and better decision making. So, what happens when a disruption such as coronavirus renders collocation inadvisable if not impossible? Can team members working in remote locations still be agile?
The Roscongress Foundation presents the ‘World Sport Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic’ news digest of 1–3 June.
The review, prepared by the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation, reflects the country’s achievements in the economic, social and environmental spheres in all seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. The goals were set by all UN member states in 2015, which agreed to submit voluntary reviews in the first five years.
The work by Bain & Company stresses the ineffectiveness of the traditional approach to supply chain management in the current conditions. The experts describe new principles on which supply chains should now be based and suggest ways to improve the efficiency of existing supply chains amid the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2011 Eric Schmidt — one of the most renowned figures in the IT industry and at the time Executive Chairman of Google — spoke at the session «The World According to Google» at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. What he said turned out to be remarkably prophetic, particularly when viewed from the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic and our experience of self-isolation.
