I will be presenting a webinar in conjunction with Central Desktop on July 19 (US time) on user adoption – the title is Why Winging It Isn’t a Strategy: “Can you be successful without a plan for rolling out your collaboration initiative to users? Maybe. But it’s going […]
This morning I traveled from Christchurch to Wellington, on Air New Zealand flight NZ404. Given the situation with the ash cloud over the country, and that other carriers have suspended their flights (especially trans-Tasman), you can imagine that some people on board the plane would be worried. In […]
My next post on The BrainYard was posted today – A Collaboration Strategy for the Change-Averse: “I’ve been in a couple of meetings recently with IT leaders who are trying to get their companies’ employees to work in new ways using collaboration tools. Rather than address their companies’ […]
David Zweig, a Professor at the University of Toronto, commented on the problem of focusing on building knowledge sharing systems rather than focusing on the human barriers to knowledge sharing: “Puzzled as to why some companies were having trouble getting employees to share ideas and tips, the University […]
I spoke on IBF24 this afternoon (my time) on user adoption for social tools. If you are a member of IBFLive you can listen to the recording. A few key points from my 20 minutes: – User adoption requires intentional effort. It doesn’t just happen. “Overnight success stories” […]
Last week, my post The Right Way to Get Employees to Collaborate was posted on The BrainYard: “A lot of my work in recent years has been with companies that have approached SharePoint the wrong way. You know the drill: The boys and girls in IT get shiny […]
In the fourth session of the day, and the final presentation before lunch at Intranets2011, Matthew C. Clarke talked about the importance of change management in intranet projects. Key points: – Why do so many intranet projects fail? Matthew asked whether attendees have change management resource on Intranet […]
The 2.0 Adoption Council is heading to Australia and New Zealand, and the first webinar to discuss the council is being held on May 10. “The 2.0 Adoption Council is a member-driven peer forum of business and IT leaders from large organisations intent on sharing concrete experiences, examining […]
Harmon.ie shared the results of its recent challenge about making SharePoint easier to use for business users, and the impact of this on adoption and uptake: “Business users can complete Microsoft SharePoint document sharing and other collaboration tasks six times faster when accessing SharePoint directly from Microsoft Outlook […]
My second blog post is up on The BrainYard – Don’t Forget Users When Deploying New Collaboration Technology: “Yes, you can build it. But employees won’t come unless you have an adoption strategy. User adoption is the single biggest challenge with new collaboration technology–it is now, it has […]
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