In his article Social Collaboration: A Work in Progress, Rob makes numerous points that are similar to my perspective / experience / advocated approach. There were also a couple I said “yes, but” to. “… part of the challenge in fostering collaboration is for organizations to acquire a […]
Rypple recently published an infographic on collaboration, called Is Poor Collaboration Killing Your Company. It has three sections: the biggest collaboration breakdowns, how employees want to collaborate, and how to create a strong collaborative culture. Biggest breakdowns (based on research with 1,400 people): – 97% – a lack […]
“Groupware …. will not mysteriously transform organizations from collections of highly competitive loners to well integrated, cooperative groups of collaborators. Without careful planning for its introduction and the changes that this will entail, the impact of groupware will likely be quite limited.“ Replace “groupware” with “collaboration technology” or […]
On The Smarter Office, I posted some reflections on the Working in Collaborative Environments conference in New Zealand last week. Here’s an abstract: “What can we learn from this case study? First, results matter, and they can influence the willingness of leaders to be involved and invest further. […]
Philip from KPMG is talking about security in the enterprise 2.0 environment. Philip sees security as an enabler, eg., brakes on cars aren’t so that we can stop, but that we can go fast. He told us to think about security in that way. Key points: – Enterprise […]
Vaughan is the Operations Manager at Beca Applied Technologies, part of the Beca group. He’s talking about three stories in Beca’s collaboration journey. Key points: – Story 1 – TeamView, a SharePoint based team site. Have been using SharePoint for a long time, since 2004/2005. Have about 325 […]
Thomas Salmen from Orcon is talking about collaboration in a fibre world – here at the Working in Collaborative Environments conference in Auckland. Thomas is the CTO at Orcon, and was recently announced as the 2012 New Zealand CIO at the annual NZ CIO Summit. Key points: – […]
Last week I posted on taking collaboration too far. Haydn weighed in on Forbes earlier this week with his view on pushing social media too far. The start of the last paragraph caught my eye: “I can’t help thinking that social media amplifies the dangers of the crowd […]
Next week in Auckland is the Working in Collaborative Environments conference. I’m the conference chairperson for the day, and have three tickets to give away that provide complimentary entry and attendance to the full one-day conference. Any costs for travel are not included in the tickets to be […]
On The Smarter Office blog, I posted about The Power of Turning Up: “In a recent client engagement I have been reminded again of the importance of turning up in person when you are exploring possibilities for how people work together through new collaboration technology. A phone conversation […]
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