When you work with others, there is all of the task work that has to get done, and that takes time and effort … and there is also the coordination of the task work, and that takes time and effort as well. For novice teams—those that haven’t worked […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Recent Australian research has found that the changing workplace is causing major stress for people. “The upheaval could take many forms, including dramatic changes in systems, technology, restructuring of the whole organisation or work groups within it, relocations and […]
One of the benefits to me of asking for contact details of people when they download one of my free white papers (say the 7 Pillars framework for collaboration) is that I can reach out to each person and learn a bit about what they are doing, and […]
Last night (Tuesday March 25) I was the presenter at the March session of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group meeting, presenting on the topic of Evaluating SharePoint for Collaboration. Given that I have blogged all of the previous sessions that I have attended, Mike, one of the attendees, […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams What’s the difference between groups, networks, and collectives? One view: “Groups are cohesive and often have formal lines of authority and roles; Networks connect distributed individuals; and Collectives are machine-aggregated representations of the activities of large number of individuals.“ […]
This is Part 5 of the Chaos in Collaboration series. The final question then, now that we have a solid basis of shared conceptual ground between us, is to look at what pitfalls we need to avoid and what steps we need to take on the road to […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Are virtual teams good or bad for organizations? There isn’t a simple answer, given the complexity of organizations, and the Leading Virtually team explores the external factors to the team that impact on the success of virtual teams: resources […]
The March 17, 2008 edition of FORTUNE magazine includes an interview with Steve Jobs of Apple. I really liked his thoughts on focus: “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Craig from the Burton Group has been trying to figure out why there is such interest in SharePoint. There are surface reasons (“we like the integration with Office”), and there are deeper reasons. “The general answer these clients give […]
The different people on your virtual team are likely to come from different cultural backgrounds, have different tastes, be sensitive to different things, and have different goals from their involvement in the project. In the same way, when members of a virtual team are composed of people from […]
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