Magor, a provider of video collaboration capabilities, announced a major win with the Richard Ivey School of Business. “With an emphasis on practical and relevant, real-world issues, the Richard Ivey School of Business regularly invites high-profile, international business leaders to take part in presentations to students via video […]
A couple of years ago Billy Cripe wrote about the difference between intentional and accidental collaboration. During a discussion with the CTO at a government agency earlier this week, he mentioned how powerful he found the distinction, and that it was being used as a key mental model […]
Sage advice from Richard Branson about communicating effectively: “It’s great to be tech-savvy, but don’t text or email when you should be calling. “The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some […]
David comments on a recent study about how regular users of Facebook feel more overwhelmed due to excessive information in the news feed: “Active Facebook users are more likely to complain of information overload–and to believe it’s gotten worse in the past year, according to a study published […]
Miles Fordyce spoke at the recent CIO Summit in New Zealand, about NZ Post’s experience with Google Apps for Business: “Collaboration tools in large enterprise is not all that it is cracked up to be, especially if collaborating is not inherent in the culture of your company, says […]
On November 8 I’ll be in Auckland to moderate a panel on enterprise collaboration at ITEX 2012. Here’s the key questions we’ll be addressing: Panel: Enterprise collaboration – the team perspective – What has technology done to aid and grow collaboration – Working remotely – why distance support […]
It’s a bit before 7am and I’m waiting for a flight from Copenhagen airport to Brussels, for the final day of my European and United Kingdom visit for October. I have a presentation to give this afternoon on how collaboration tools can be used to improve organizational efficiency. […]
I saw an article last week about why CIOs are doing enterprise social media the wrong way. “Just a few years ago, skepticism abounded over the place of enterprise social media. Sure it made sense to communicate with customers via social media, but what place did this sort […]
At the Interactions 2012 conference next week in London, I’ll be talking about the dangers of pushing collaboration too far: “Someone drives a car too fast and crashes, writing off the car and breaking their leg in the process. Is the car to blame or the driver? Another […]
On The Smarter Office, I posted on why new technology is not adopted: “… part of the approach for being successful with user adoption of new ways of working – usually powered by new technology – is figuring out why earlier attempts have been unsuccessful. On this front […]
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