The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Richard shares the experiences of BT in adopting social media tools. “The power of social software is undeniable in the free, anarchic world of the global internet. But what happens when you bring these tools into the constrained, policy-driven, risk-averse world of the corporate intranet where the user population is small, where expressing oneself as an individual and on a personal level can feel threatening, and where management is watching your every move? Well, that’s just what one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions, BT, has chosen to do. Richard Dennison, BT’s Internal Programme Manager, tells the story.“

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• More on why SharePoint projects fail: Part 7 looks at the role of senior management in project failure, particularly around their role in crafting and executing on organizational strategy, and Part 5 at product complexity. “Let’s face it. SharePoint is big, complex, nasty, over-engineered yet under-engineered, skinnable yet unskinnable and depends on other products and supporting technologies that have big, thick books written just about them (SQL Server, ASP.NET, etc). Such a large number of components means there are equally as many points of failure or disruption, therefore points of governance to cover and experience required to cover it.“
• Some pointers on the pros and cons of SharePoint.
• Role Modellers offers HumanEdj, for task and work management based around the concept of stories. “Work processes defined via HumanEdj do not treat people like cogs in a machine. Rather the software provides a natural balance between the freedom required by human nature (supporting informal human interaction and document creation while allowing people to take on commitment and responsibility) and the management controls that every organization requires (allowing processes to be audited, re-used and even updated during execution to keep them consistent with the next steps that people agree on).” Watch the video.

Other Noteworthy Insights

• Great presentations, great books, great blog posts feature powerful stories. Dave calls out 10 aspects of this.