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Even if you\u2019re not a fan of science fiction, you may have heard a famous quote from William Gibson, a Canadian author who once said: \u201cThe future is already here. It\u2019s just not evenly distributed.\u201d It\u2019s an idea that rings true even more loudly if you\u2019re talking about the future of work and SMBs.<\/p>\n

Perhaps because of differences in resources\u2014or just the speed at which technology changes\u2014the way large enterprises organize and empower their staff may sometimes seem like The Jetsons compared with smaller or medium-sized firms. No matter how you define \u201cthe future of work,\u201d it\u2019s probably easy to imagine people working faster, more autonomously and more productively thanks to advances in IT.<\/p>\n

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The question is, how do you get there without stretching your budget to the breaking point, and avoid any painful process changes along the way? It may not be easy as 1, 2, 3, but here are at least three ways to break it down.<\/p>\n

1. Reverse-Engineer Work As It Is Today<\/b><\/p>\n

Few firms proactively establish a \u201cfuture of work\u201d strategy. More often, there is a particular trigger or tipping point that requires companies to rethink their traditional approach to getting things done. This could be shifts in the way their customers prefer to receive information\u2014like moving from paper-based to digital sources of content, for example. Sometimes there are competitive threats, such as the move to offering services from a mobile device rather than a physical location or over the phone.<\/p>\n

Though some organizations manage to respond to such things relatively quickly, they are inevitably in \u201ccatch-up\u201d mode compared with firms who have more foresight into how technology could improve their internal and customer-facing methods of interacting.<\/p>\n

Avoid this problem by following the example of R&D departments, who sometimes \u201creverse-engineer\u201d or take a competitor\u2019s product apart in order to understand how it functions. In this case, reverse-engineer your own organization and look at some of the following areas:<\/p>\n