The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Blogging at Northwestern Mutual … A case study from Forrester Research on the benefits of blogging at Northwestern Mutual. “While the bloging initiative was designed to improve the culture of openness and honesty, the biggest benefits were seen in […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Meet Face-to-Face … Vaibhav shares the before and after states within a software development team as a result of an in-person joint working session. “The end result was that we were getting much more done with much less time […]
In addition to actions that management need to take to set the context for effective distributed work, employees themselves need to embrace responsibility for increasing their own capability to work effectively at a distance from their co-workers and collaborators. In this inaugural edition of The Collaborative Individual, I […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams When Teams Fail … Edward writes about failure in corporate teams. Much has changed in the last 30 years: “Women and minorities have joined the workforce in large and growing numbers, and globalization has expanded the demographics of companies […]
I had a strategic retreat part time over three days of this week. One of the key lessons for me was to keep action lists actionable, and not fill them up with amorphous blobs of undoability. A related lesson was to express multi-year projects as shorter duration projects […]
I hope it is evident to anyone who has spent even a couple of minutes on this site that I’m deeply passionate about the whole area of collaboration. And that I have been for a long time. What is probably less clear is how I make a living […]
Garden Grass Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here’s why. A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams A Culture of Collaboration … On collaboration: (a) start with the culture (a “collaborative mindset”), not the tools, (b) HR isn’t involved enough in technology for collaboration, (c) we’re in the age of collaboration (“The 21st century is likely […]
Clients ask me to help them answer three types of questions about collaboration. 1. Designing a New Collaboration Environment First, there are the questions about designing a new collaboration environment, from a thoroughly business perspective and encompassing both the people and technology factors: “Should our firm continue to […]
I hope it is evident to anyone who has spent even a couple of minutes on this site that I’m deeply passionate about the whole area of collaboration. And that I have been for a long time. What is probably less clear is how I make a living […]
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