In the April 2014 edition of the 360 Magazine by Steelcase, is this diagram of how people spend their time at work. The research data is based on a collection of Steelcase studies. My takeaways: – confirms my perspective that most collaboration is in small group settings, and […]
Having good technology on offer to support the profiling of employee expertise is a helpful capability in collaboration tools. Add to the mix the right balance of human behaviours, and you have a situation ripe for benefit. Three such behavioural aspects of making employee profiles work are: Define […]
Real Story Group released its 2016 briefing on the state of the enterprise collaboration and social software marketplace, and a blog post with some highlights. The above graphic is from the blog post, and gives a different way of visualising the relationship between vendors, and the trajectories different […]
Tony’s comments in Predicting the world of Exchange in 2016 about the cadence of updates to Office 365 caught my eye, as he expresses one of my concerns with the offering: I expect Microsoft will throttle back the number of changes introduced into Office 365 during 2016. At […]
Microsoft Office 365 offers a collection of software applications for various user devices plus an array of cloud-delivered online services to both power and complement any installed software. In totality, Office 365 offers a compelling proposition to organisations that want advanced systems for productivity and collaboration without the […]
Whenever I needed a Windows laptop in the early 2000s I always purchased Toshiba. From 2007 my Windows laptop vendor of choice has been Lenovo due to the ThinkPad line, and the strong recommendation towards those that I received from Eric Mack. I’ve liked the build quality and […]
Earlier in 2015 I saw the initial advertisement for the Zolt laptop and device charger, which promised to be smaller than the charging block for most laptops, and also give an option for charging two other USB-powered devices at the same time. As a traveler intent on optimal […]
As a university student in the early 1990s I somehow convinced my parents that having a laptop for my studies was absolutely essential (!!!), and borrowed from them the required stack of cash to purchase a Toshiba laptop. It was rare to have a laptop in the classroom […]
One of the promises of cloud services is that you always have the latest stuff available. Unfortunately one of the realities of cloud services is that “the latest stuff” can change negatively from what you had when you first signed up, and likewise that “the latest stuff” still […]
Facebook announced Facebook at Work earlier this year, a business version of its service for use by organizations. In October the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced they were rolling it out wall-to-wall. In their press release, RBS states: Facebook At Work will look and feel similar to […]
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