I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time — because I finally get to let you all in on a little secret. I’ve been a bit of a hermit for the past few months, apart from my trips to Australia and Europe, as I have […]
Tungle announced the addition of Tungle.me to the Google Apps Marketplace. – For Google Apps organizations, all employees can be automagically given Tungle.me too. Mashable reviewed four Web-based meeting scheduling services. – Doodle … “pleasantly light, quick-and-dirty scheduler with the most intuitive interface“ – Tungle … “a brand […]
Luis wrote last week about 3 barriers to adoption of collaboration tools in the enterprise. Number 3 was about the lack of education in using the tools. Luis wrote: “Time and time again, plenty of businesses take for granted such important task of educating their workforce not only […]
Today I installed MindManager for SharePoint on my Lenovo W500 running Windows 7 Professional. There were a couple of pre-requisites that weren’t there already, and after prompting me for them and getting me okay, downloaded and installed them with no problem. So far so good. Testing the Task […]
Mindjet released a new product a while back, and I’ve been taking a look this week. It’s called MindManager for SharePoint, and combines the visual mapping power of MindManager with the collaboration capabilities of SharePoint. A couple of specifics up front: – It’s a different product from MindManager […]
A recent article on BA Business Life looked at the growth of business travel, and pondered the reasons why. – Perhaps remote meeting technology isn’t good enough (video conferencing), or sufficiently spread (telepresence). – Perhaps remote meetings are hype, or applicable to only a few work styles. – […]
I started the week working each day on three different books – one of which I’ve disclosed (Governance Themes), and two which are still under wraps. I thought I could do three at a time, with good time boxing. But alas, I had to face up again pretty […]
SAP recently shifted 12sprints (which I reviewed in February), its collaborative decision-making service, out of beta and into production. It has a new name: SAP StreamWork. From the features page: “SAP STREAMWORK IS RESULTS-DRIVEN Give structure to discussions and create a collective view with business methods: When maneuvering […]
In a white paper from 2008, Oracle pins the contribution of technology to success at a maximum of 20%. Very cool to see a major vendor say this in its materials. “Nearly 80 percent of the issues that can affect your deployment and overall solution adoption involve factors […]
Just been reading a white paper on user adoption, and saw a great chart from John McKean’s 1999 book, Information Masters: Secrets of the Customer Race. The success contribution of technology is only 10%, in John’s view. It used to be higher, but here’s how he sees the […]
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