European Telework Development
IntroductionDavid Skyrme runs his own management consultancy company - David Skyrme Associates, which specialises in information and knowledge management applications for innovation and wealth creation in the global networked economy.
David is information and communications manager of the programme. This has three main strands:
Today his company acts as a virtual corporation, working in conjunction with other individuals and companies, depending on the nature of the project and client. For example, strategies for knowledge management are done in association with Entovation International, based in Boston, Massachussets. His clients range from multinational corporations to market research companies and local business support agencies.
David also has several academic interests. He runs regular workshops on business research and marketing management for Diploma and MBA students at Reading University and the Open University repectively. He is a research affiliate of the Oxford Institute of Information Management (OXIIM) at Templeton College, Oxford, a fellow of the Institute of Creativity and Capital at the University of Austin, Texas, and a member of the Research Grants Board of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).
I was born in Newark, and haved lived in Norwich, Essex (Hornchurch), Manchester and Cheshire, the USA (Marlboro, Mass) and have lived here in Newbury, Berkshire for the last 17 years. I am married (wife Jane) and have three daughters, who are now (almost, after going through first and second degrees at university at our expense!) making their own way in the world. Elizabeth (Sussex and Sheffield universities) works as a landscape architect in Hampshire; Karen (Warwick University) is on Barclay's Bank management development programme, and Vivienne is at Sussex Univeristy but is doing a year's exchange from 1997-8 at the University of Oregon.
I have travelled a lot and still enjoy travelling the world and meeting people. However, the more I travel (last year we had a fabulous time in Iceland), the more places seem to get added to the "want to visit list".
Of course, the Internet means you can travel the world from your desk-top (or laptop), but it's not the same as the real thing. The danger is of getting too tied to your desk. So twice a week, I go out swimming half a mile to try and keep some semblance of fitness. Playing social badminton and walking (the lovely downs near here) also help.