The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Virtual teams need trust to function. Academic research shows that trust can be enhanced or destroyed as virtual teams work together. The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams HP and Cisco are working together in New Zealand […]
On March 25, I will be presenting on SharePoint for collaboration at the next meeting of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group Meeting. “In this session, Michael Sampson will be discussing Microsoft’s claims that SharePoint can be used for team collaboration. He has developed his own framework to assess […]
I just read an email from Peter Murphy from Get Motivated, Stay Motivated, and was inspired to write this on my plans for today: “The pain of regret for settling for mediocrity is far greater than the pain of mistakes while pursuing excellence.”
I’m speaking next month to a group of Information Management professionals in New Zealand on the topic “The Key to Collaboration without Chaos”. I have a little giggle every time I think of the title (collaboration without chaos, c’mon!). Perhaps I should start the presentation by saying that […]
Left-to-Right: David (11), Matthew (10), Professor Chris, and Philip (9) Professor Chris Rogers, from Tufts University in Medford MA, was in New Zealand for some sessions on robots and engineering. There was a general session on Thursday night, and I took my 3 oldest boys. Eric Mack will […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams What percentage of collaboration software implementations fail? CIO Magazine pins the number at 80%, but Todd argues that its more like 40% fail but 95% fail to succeed. “Why would be have such a high degree of failure? Perhaps […]
Why do we work in teams? 4. Teamwork to Increase Acceptance (a) Securing buy-in within the organization Teamwork is driven by the need to secure buy-in from other people, groups and departments within the organization. Initiatives that are cooked up in isolation from other teams and groups and […]
GroupSwim is a provider of a hosted software solution for creating intelligent communities. The software provides a place for people to author content in community-centric discussion forums, and is a reaction to document-centric collaboration software. Multiple communities can be created within a given GroupSwim account. That means that […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Martin addresses nine mistakes that make a corporate wiki a ghost town, including (2) creating a one-way communication platform, (6) overlooking the importance of workflows, and (7) dismissing Web 2.0’s role in the enterprise. The Office of Management and […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Ken’s book, BioTeams, is out! The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Microsoft released some updates to Office Live Workspace, including a new activity pane, the ability to add multiple documents to a workspace in one go, […]
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