What does the word “collaboration” mean? In my workshops and seminars, I start with this definition: “People working with other people towards a common outcome.“ That’s a pretty broad definition, and while it signals the game we’re playing, it doesn’t detail the moves required. One way of thinking […]
A month ago, after I wrote a review of Jane McConnell’s Global Intranet Trends for 2011 report, Jane left the following comment: “Hi Michael, I like your comment about your pillars and the 5 megatrends. You’re right. One of the big governance obstacles I’m encountering with clients these […]
Yesterday I distributed the February edition of the Making Collaboration Work newsletter. The lead article was called Don’t Buy a Filing Cabinet if you Need a Heartbeat: “One of the tricks to get right with collaboration is to be clear on your intent first, and only then to […]
I wrote a few days ago that Martin White has a new book out, called The Intranet Management Handbook. For me, this is great timing due to a couple of client projects I’m working on at the moment, and so in between following the devastation that’s happening with […]
REANNZ announced that its high-speed network and video conferencing services are available free to anyone affected by the Christchurch earthquake: “KAREN Video Conferencing Service is open and free to use for anyone affected by the Christchurch earthquake. The service is operational and available for people to link to […]
Monitor is a consulting firm that works with organizations to help them grow. They believe in collaboration – with clients, within the firm, and with the community. Look at the language they use to describe their culture with respect to working with each other: “Our client work is […]
I was talking with Nancy last week about collaboration, and one of the comments I made was how our educational system conditions us that collaboration is cheating. Remember at school, “working together” was taken as cheating, and we got punished for that. Once our young people hit the […]
The Small & Medium Business Centre at HP NZ publishes a mix of business and technology articles. Invariably there is something that catches my eye each month, such as this one on how to get fired at work: “Too late: you’ve said it now; you can’t take the […]
Slideshare changed the dynamics of giving presentations – conference speakers could now leverage their conference work to reach a broader audience beyond their assigned meeting slot, and people who didn’t get an invitation to talk at the conference could put their thoughts up alongside those who did. Last […]
Billy tweeted earlier today: “Collaboration is not document-centric. It is information centric & human oriented. Make sure your collaboration systems get this.“ Let’s think about this for a moment. Collaboration is about “people working with other people towards a common outcome.” So I agree with Billy on the […]
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