I wrote a few days ago that Martin White has a new book out, called The Intranet Management Handbook. For me, this is great timing due to a couple of client projects I’m working on at the moment, and thus have been deeply reading Martin’s book. The book […]
Yesterday I distributed the February edition of the Making Collaboration Work newsletter. The lead article was called Don’t Buy a Filing Cabinet if you Need a Heartbeat: “One of the tricks to get right with collaboration is to be clear on your intent first, and only then to […]
Daniel, my fourth son, purchased six fertile eggs a few weeks back. Thanks to a broody hen, two of them hatched, and thanks to quick thinking by my wife Katrina, two more were saved. “We warmed [the eggs] with hot water bottles and two began to peep again! […]
The CIO of Tait Radio Communications (the firm used to be called Tait Electronics) here in Christchurch talked a few days ago about the approach they’re taking to mobile devices and smartphones at work. Basically, they’ve stopped trying to control what people use, and allow them to bring […]
Blackboard commissioned a survey on studying habits in the UK. The key finding is that how students study and learn is changing: “While most universities advocate that students work no more than 12-16 hours per week while enrolled in a full time course, almost a third of students […]
Jon Mell (of IBM now and Headshift previously) had to go e-mail-less a few days ago, and he didn’t die. In fact, it appeared that good things came to him as a result: “Our email system is fully integrated with instant messaging, so when I received an email […]
Fujitsu announced a new network scanner – the N1800. “We at Fujitsu introduced another innovation in network scanning called the ScanSnap N1800 Network Scanner in order to help companies in paper intensive vertical markets such as healthcare, government, banking and education improve their business process management, efficiency and […]
My current favorite for a non-Mac laptop is Lenovo. Solid. Reliable. I have both a W500 and W510, and they are nice machines. Anyway, Lenovo has new laptops on offer: “Lenovo today announced six new ThinkPad laptops – the T420s, T420, T520, L420, L520 and W520 – that […]
Jason, who is quoted a few times in my User Adoption Strategies book, has recently commented that user adoption activities should start before go-live. I agree: “Clients often place priority on the technical build and implementation over end-user readiness. Their assumption is that once the new system becomes […]
Global IT firm Atos Origin has said it wants to become “email-free” within three years. “Thierry Breton, the firm’s chairman and chief executive, says he has had enough of the streams of e-mails which daily “pollute” the workplace. He has likened his campaign to the efforts made to […]
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