Katherine shares some data on the impact of physical space for job satisfaction and collaboration. “These trends reflected the conclusions drawn by Professor Alex Haslam, from the School of Psychology at the University of Exeter, whose international studies linked poor use of office space with employee satisfaction and […]
Posted at 5.30am on Monday March 28, London time I’m in London – the trip across the world went fine. It always amazes me how quickly we can do this now – what took our forefathers 4-5 months by boat, can now be done in less than 30 […]
I’m about to head away for a week. I’m going to London for 3 days, and then have 1 day in San Francisco. There are couple of good things lined up: – a workshop in London with a firm on user adoption for new collaboration technology and approaches; […]
Steven shares his analysis of the difference between collaboration and social media: “Here’s the difference. Generally, Social Media is aimed externally, outside the walls of your business, (customers, vendors, competitors) and Collaboration is aimed internally, inside the walls of your business, (employees). Why is one more important than […]
Jordan at Traction Software reviews the recent Deloitte study and my User Adoption book, and comments: “When you focus on the “why,” people stop looking at the platform as a “blog” or “social” system but rather as a work-process system. They take it more seriously and part of […]
Josh, the co-author of Groundswell, shares his thinking about being asked to give a speech, and what works and doesn’t work: “I spend 80% of my time now writing books and giving speeches. As you can imagine, I get a lot of speaking requests. Usually, the prep and […]
Nicholas writes about Google’s view on history and measuring value, and concludes with this gem: “Maybe the question we should be asking, not of Google but of ourselves, is what types of questions the Net is encouraging us to ask. Should human thought be gauged by its output […]
The World Wide Fund in the UK surveyed 158 large companies in the UK about what’s happening with business travel. The research found that: “ … 47 percent had cut business flights and 63 percent have in place or plan to enact a policy for reducing business flights. […]
In October last year, Alex and Alex at TechWeb asked if I’d be interested in writing for a new web site, aligned with the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. We talked – and I said I’d be interested in writing about the business value of collaboration and user adoption. After […]
Lane from Doculabs proposes that social collaboration at work needs to be more about coffee, and less about beer. It’s an easy way of thinking about it – and some of the challenges involved: He touches on a number of adoption strategies that I talk about in my […]
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