An Update on my European Tour – Eight Engagements in 10 Days
I’ll be in Europe from May 5 to May 16. There’s a few things to do while I’m there … here’s my updated schedule.
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Social Connections VI – Prague
As you may know, I’m heading to Europe at the end of next week for a two week workshop tour. When the tour was originally under design, the intent was to align it with Social Connections VI – which at one point was going to be held in […]
CrossFit for Business
Nicholas proposes applying the ideas of CrossFit to business: Cross-fit is a high intensity interval training methodology and is brilliant for those who want to get really, really fit. It also has a strong following amongst specialist athletes. Traditionally a runner would get excellent at their craft by […]
Thinking About How Real Workers Use New Collaboration Tools – the Ford Approach
In How Ford reimagined IT from the inside-out to power its turnaround from mid-2012, Jason writes about changes at Ford’s IT department. Among other changes, he comments on the new approach Ford IT took with helping users understand how to make use of the various tools available to […]
Business Reimagined by Dave Coplin, Microsoft
Over the past few days I have been reading Dave Coplin’s book, Business Reimagined: Why work isn’t working and what you can do about it (2013). The animation above presents a pretty decent summary of Dave’s book, but if you want a deeper look at his ideas, the […]
Amplify in Sydney: What Do People Care About? What Do They Share?
In late May I will be in Sydney to speak at and present a workshop at Collective 2014. While in town, I will be presenting a separate session at the Amplify Festival: “What Do People Care About? What Do They Share? The demand for ideas about improving user […]
Managing Meetings in SharePoint 2013
In my book Collaboration Roadmap (2011) I talk about managing meetings as one of the “collaboration scenarios” that can be enhanced / improved through new tools. Within the context of SharePoint 2013, AvePoint offers a Meetings App for this scenario. In the video above, Jeremy Thake (who is […]
A Reader’s Question: How Much Do I Spend on Training?
A customer who recently purchased a copy of User Adoption Strategies (2012) wrote earlier today asking about training budgets for SharePoint projects. Here’s my thoughts. What’s your experience?
Limiting the Work Day to Get More Done
Writing for Financial Times, Lucy proposes a return to the 9 to 5 workday, citing a number of benefits from doing so, including: – a reduction in time wasted by being at work but actually getting little done. – reducing the time allocated to work, thereby increasing the […]
Silos Kill Business
Christopher Penn writes about effective marketing. In a recent blog post, he talks about how silos kill business, and recommends tighter communication / coordination / collaboration instead: “If there’s been one overarching theme I’ve heard in dozens of discussions with people the past few months at various conferences, […]
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