Industry Updates

Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (December 19, 2007)

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The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

  • Embrace virtual teams, and thereby reduce your carbon footprint.

  • Collaboration is about people. James says that it makes no sense to roll out collaboration platforms to the whole organization. Mmm…

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

  • Greg weighs in on the use of blogs for project management.

  • The HTC Advantage: highly recommended as a mobile office.

  • The problem with intranets: they are junk drawers. They have been designed for communication, not collaboration. (“We’re at a crossroads again. Collaboration tools, content management and office productivity is converging and either companies will approach things strategically or they’ll end up with “junk drawer 2.0.” We see this everyday. Either we’re talking to business-focused leaders looking for a comprehensive, strategic solutions or to companies who have appointed a technician to go buy parts and then sew something together. Our industry has to help companies peer ahead by painting a clear vision of what a collaboration-centric, Social Productivity system looks like, otherwise: no vision, no decision.“)

  • SP1 for Groove 2007 is out.

  • Office Live Workspace: it’s a coach being called a sled for use in conditions it wasn’t designed for.

  • DocSyncer, for auto-sync of documents between the desktop and Google, has shifted into open beta mode.

  • Beta 3 of IBM Lotus Symphony is now available.

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

  • Time savers: TiVo, The Printable CEO, Basecamp, working from home, and more.

  • If you want to get better at managing your time, learn time mastery. Laura has 10 directives, ending with (10) make decisions quickly once you have the appropriate information.

  • 5 steps to a momentum-filled day: wake up early, exercise, avoid breaks, make use of productive cues, and create a daily ritual.

  • Got a problem with your GTD setup? Wrong, it’s more likely to be a problem with your GTD behaviors.

Other Noteworthy Insights

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