The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Stop relying on email so much, and pick up the phone! Three keys to good phone presence: (a) sound energetic, (b) don’t multitask, and (c) when in doubt, pause. “But whether you’re sending an e-mail or making a phone […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Sun Microsystems released some good data points about the benefits of telecommuting (hat tip, Jessica). “Sun found that its U.S. employees worked at home an average of 2.1 days per week in 2007. In doing so, they saved an […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Kyle argues that IT professionals lack the insight and skills to move people off Microsoft Office, because they don’t have a clue how people actually work. “You know more about different technology alternatives to Microsoft Office than you know […]
Today David noted that it would be a real problem if the words in the title of my book got mixed up. It would change from being a book about the effective use of SharePoint to one about sewing: Teamless Seamwork. You know, sewing on your own!
K2 hosted a webinar today, introducing K2 blackpoint to the Australia and New Zealand customers. K2 blackpoint is a workflow tool for SharePoint. K2 blackpoint is the baby brother of B2 blackpearl. The latter supports additional things like process design in Visual Studio and Visio, and deep integration […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Craig shares his take on collaboration in Europe: (1) a great deal of interest in social software, but less doing, (2) SharePoint is happening, but in a more controlled way than in the US, (3) portal consolidation and goverance […]
Put together a team of people to multiply the strength brought to bear on the task outcome at hand. As I’ve discussed earlier, strength is increased in teams through power, speed, breadth, and acceptance. Find others that have complementary skills, complementary experiences, and complementary perspectives that enable the […]
I read out the two draft dedications I have written for Seamless Teamwork to Katrina and my oldest son, David (12), yesterday. Katrina’s immediate reaction to the first one was “You can’t write that!”, but to the second one she said “That’s really cool!” David didn’t say anything […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Dion summarizes key lessons about Enterprise 2.0 tools: (a) we are past the early adopter phase, (b) many organizations still actively discourage social computing, (c) Enterprise 2.0 changes the lines of expertise in organizations, (d) there are lots of […]
The heart of effective collaboration both in-person and when mitigated by technology is responsiveness, as measured in (a) time and (b) engagement. In terms of time, a face-to-face conversation “works” when the people in the meeting answer the questions they have been asked during the meeting, or take […]
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