Entries by Cloudriven

Giving the Employees’ the Right to Telework 2015 – The Best Christmas Present?

At Microsoft Finland, we’ve been teleworking for a few years already using our so-called “being present” working model, which means that goals guide our work and it doesn’t matter where or when we work. Many people, actually more people than the capacity of the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, have visited our Meeting Point in Keilaranta, Espoo, to find out, how we use modern technology, new spaces, and management to achieve challenging goals, yet at the same time keep job satisfaction high. During this inspiring and compelling journey we’ve had to think over the very fundamentals of work.

Performance Management Survey Reveals the Pain Points of Finnish Management Practices

Cloudriven conducted a survey, which concentrated on topics that are important in combining the ability to meet operational efficiency with creativity requirements. Survey was composed from the point of view of organization’s performance management process. The invitation to the survey was sent out to 1330 HR professionals in Finland and 113 responses were collected representing 8.7 % of all invited.

Leader Plays a Big Role in Meaningful Volunteer Work

Four years ago I was studying in Santiago, Chile. During my studies, I got to know a few really great people also from El Salvador, which is a small, beautiful developing country in Central America. A year later, when back in Finland, I invited them to join my birthday party. Of course they couldn’t travel across the world, but this invitation led to something bigger.

Successful Marketing is Human-to-Human – Serve, Listen and Meet Your Clients as People

As an entrepreneur, I’m a very satisfied customer of Tommi Kivistö. He sells me the phones I need and takes care of the cell phone plans. He makes sure I’m satisfied and explains all the bureaucracy in a way I can understand. The new logo of the Finnish operator Elisa decorates his workspace. Sometimes I wonder, how that money could’ve been spent to train other people to be more like Tommi. Because that’s what marketing and selling to human beings is all about: encounters and experience.