My understanding of “focus” has changed during the past eight months as I have been writing the new book, and I wanted to get some thoughts down about this. I guess the best way to begin is to say that I now see focus as something much more […]
The Earthquake Commission in New Zealand has been in the news over the past few days, due to a privacy breach where an EQC staffer mistakenly sent a spreadsheet by email to the wrong recipient. Ian Simpson, the CEO of EQC wrote yesterday: “Today I confirmed the scale […]
Michael Janz from Priority Management is presenting on the challenges of being effective in getting your work done. Started with time management. Have been focusing on contextualizing their principles within Lotus Notes and other tools of the day. Some notes: 1. Some research findings – (a) the average […]
There are some really sad stories of how people have accidentally stumbled across expertise that was sorely needed. While the stories make for funny reading, they are sad in the sense that these types of accidents just shouldn’t happen. Organizations should have better ways of sensing who is […]
Having knowledge of a domain lays the context for being asked to contribute that knowledge to a topic, a project, a cause, or an initiative at your organization. When new tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Connections, or Jive (among others) are used to bring people together in […]
Alan shares his view on what will happen with the social business space in 2013, with the main theme being “less talking, more doing.” “My thoughts about 2013 are based on the hundreds of conversations I’ve had with social business product vendors and customers over the last twelve […]
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 […]
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, […]
Debra comments on three big social business implementation challenges, coming out of a recent IBM study. “But all of this doesn’t just happen by virtue of establishing presence on external social networks or even by implementing an internal social business platform, the respondents noted. According to the report, […]
