The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Pfizer employees have led a bottom-up embrace of blogs. It is leading to executives using blogs to communicate with their people. “While a written policy now exists, Revell says the basic guideline is that people shouldn’t post content they […]
The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams IBM announced a partnership with RIM for new hosting services for the BlackBerry platform. “IBM will expand its portfolio of Managed Wireless Services for the BlackBerry platform leveraging its successful services offering that currently hosts more than 100,000 enterprise […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Todd argues that the technology is 5% of the success equation. “and two others. The software is the only variable in the mix which means that the amount of training and education are the same. The level of internal […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams One vendor argues that wikis are bad for external customer collaboration, due to four reasons. “I think many companies rolled out Wikis for their customers and incorrectly assumed they were ideal because they give the company one place to […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Getting to “we” in a collaboration, in five steps: (a) state the problem, (b) talk it through, (c) listen to others and learn, (4) see the interlocking concerns, and (5) create together. We are what we share. We are […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams One potential reason for the difficulty of embracing a wiki for team collaboration: we prefer to work alone. “Often I see very smart and highly competent people use what I call a divide-and-conquer method where one personal will call […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams CEO Online offers an extensive overview of how to set up a remote workforce. Key parts: (a) main motivating factors for businesses looking at a remote workforce, (b) disadvantages of remote working, (c) how to get started, and (d) […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Chi-Town Daily News is a citizen journalism publication, and they are using 37signals Highrise for managing the newsroom. “Highrise enables us to collect contact details on our volunteers in one location, assign the volunteer to an editor, track stories […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Seven lessons is team success based on correlates from Jazz: (1) provocative competence, (2) mistakes as a source of learning, (3) shared orientation with minimal structure, (4) distributed tasks, (5) reliance on retrospective sense-making, (6) hanging out, and (7) […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams If people act as though information has value in and of itself (ie, rather than being valued within a context), then information sharing and collaboration trend downwards. “Does it make sense to hide things from your customer? Does it […]
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