Work Smarter: 20 companies reinventing how they work

You can be working smarter.

In the April 2010 issue of the magazine, Wired looked at 20 businesses that were reinventing the way they worked. All have been boosted by fresh thinking. But what can we learn from them? And how could you be working smarter?

Howies "Build your business around a mission"

Devi Shetty "Scale your business, whatever it is"

UBS "Abolish budgets"

HubSpot "Ditch staff holidays"

Best Buy "Turn your staff into brand ambassadors"

Red Gate "Incubate other businesses"

Vestergaard Frandsen "Reinvent your business for social good"

Inditex "Master the data along your entire supply chain"

McLaren "Collaborate inventively"

Behance "Choose work over meetings"

LiveOps "Free your workers...but track their output"

Atlassian "Give employees creative autonomy"

D'O "Encourage simplicity"

Victors & Spoils "Harness the creative mass of the crowd"

Happy Computers "Set goals, then back off"

Mosaic "Embrace cloud workforces"

Cancer Research UK "Make your company radically transparent"

Generation Press "Adapt tradition"

The Public School "Relearn how to educate"

37signals "Create small teams to build products fast"

This article was originally published by WIRED UK