Lizette looks at the challenge of text entry on mobile devices, and offers a roundup of current happenings: “Cramped on a tiny, flat screen with nondelineated keys, the QWERTY keyboard is ripe for smartphone makeover. Typing on a keyboard one-fifth the standard size can be slow, awkward and–as […]
A few months ago Pamela wrote that Effective enterprise collaboration strategy needs everyone on the bus. I’m confused by some of the advice in the article – there’s an underlying ethos throughout that rings off to me. Here’s the reactions I’m having as I’m reading it through. Paragraph […]
Jessica contemplates the idea that greater transparency in the organization will result in rudderlessness: “Managers may worry that employees won’t know where to focus with information about so many initiatives washing over them. Command and control ensures coordinated action on limited priorities. Without strong, top-down signals about what […]
I’ll be in the United States in late January 2013. My anchor event is IBM Connect 2013 from January 27-31 in Florida; I’ll be attending as an industry analyst for the second year running. I have some days available for consulting and workshops while I’m in the United […]
Angela argues that the reference to “Facebook in the enterprise” sends the wrong signal to senior executives, and suggests a better business orientation: “As much as Facebook has been a fantastic trailblazer for social technologies, and is an easy way to demonstrate what is meant by “social” software, […]
In my final post for The Smarter Office, I review the Interactions 2012 conference from early October in London: “While I was in London early last month, I attended an intranet conference hosted by Interact, a vendor of “intelligent intranet” software (to use their phrase). The conference was […]
Elaine from OBS in Australia shares her top 13 list of features in SharePoint 2013. The 13 include adding content easily, sharing content easily, access anywhere, My Task List, leveraging experts, and more. I don’t have a problem with the list, and am pleased to see that (at […]
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Chris is running a debate tournament in Colorado Springs next week, and the debaters are teenagers. Chris writes about the “big deal” of the event: “Our culture is muddled with an opinion of young people that is depressing. Teenagers are baggy, disrespectful, foulmouthed, slothful, ugly. The teenage culture […]
Jeffrey argues that the fundamental rule of brainstorming leads to boring thinking. He proposes a different approach: “In fact, this would probably be the most interesting strategy: ask him the most outrageous questions you can think of in order to force him out of his boring story comfort […]
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