The May 8 edition of Collaboration Newswire crossed the wire a few hours ago: “IBM’s Lotus Quickr is a team collaboration product that continues and enhances the Lotus Quickplace offering, as well as embraces design ideas from the Web 2.0 world. It is also multiplatform, running on Microsoft […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams CEO Online offers an extensive overview of how to set up a remote workforce. Key parts: (a) main motivating factors for businesses looking at a remote workforce, (b) disadvantages of remote working, (c) how to get started, and (d) […]
One of the benefits of working from home is having pictures delivered on a regular basis from my children. Today Tim, who likes Lego a lot, brought me this picture … Thanks Tim!!
You are on a project team and are using SharePoint as the central place and space for capturing and recording all of the project related information. Within the team site that’s been created, there is even a task tracking capability … so that people on the team can […]
There are many things that can throw a team project off-course. The goal posts can be shifted by the project sponsor; that’s clearly a signal that the shared vision needs to be expanded or revised. That will have flow-on effects throughout the remaining project phases. Sometimes the shifting […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Chi-Town Daily News is a citizen journalism publication, and they are using 37signals Highrise for managing the newsroom. “Highrise enables us to collect contact details on our volunteers in one location, assign the volunteer to an editor, track stories […]
Content for Seamless Teamwork. Some of the screen shots are quite wide … right click them and open them in a different window or tab to see all of the details. One of the choices a team needs to make when using SharePoint is whether to accept “good […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Seven lessons is team success based on correlates from Jazz: (1) provocative competence, (2) mistakes as a source of learning, (3) shared orientation with minimal structure, (4) distributed tasks, (5) reliance on retrospective sense-making, (6) hanging out, and (7) […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams If people act as though information has value in and of itself (ie, rather than being valued within a context), then information sharing and collaboration trend downwards. “Does it make sense to hide things from your customer? Does it […]
Some thoughts for Chapter 5 of Seamless Teamwork … do you do things like this now, or have a different view? We hold meetings for different purposes, and some of the meetings that we hold for in-person groups don’t make a lot of sense for virtual teams (and […]
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