The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Microsoft released tools to help with the adoption of SharePoint in the enterprise: the Internal Buzz Kit, and GEAR Up. “Internal Buzz Kit: this kit provides sample materials and training to help customers kick off SharePoint deployments. It includes […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams In 10 Rules for Creative Teams, Jeffrey shares strategies for effectiveness. Key suggestions: (4) establish processes for inter-team communication, (7) solve relationship problems quickly, and (10) be results oriented, not method oriented. Doug posts notes from an interview with […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Ivan argues that its time to give up email and go face-to-face for certain business meetings. “We want to be treated seriously — like the big boys. We can’t, shouldn’t and won’t escape from meeting with our clients because […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Jon explores how knowledge worker experience work and people today: via the computer screen. What’s the implication of this to our humanity? “There’s a very real issue here that is helping to create the emerging dynamics – the more […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Ken outlines a three step approach to motivate teams: (1) summarize the situation, highlighting four key areas of focus (timeline, team, main deliverable, and its importance to the enterprise), (2) present the consequences, and (3) create and implement a […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Cultures that are “high-context” rely more heavily on implicit communication, on leaving things unsaid with the expectation that the other will work it out based on many factors. This has implications for virtual teams. “How does implicit communication affect […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams If you are planning a new collaboration strategy, Jason argues that you have to include email in your planning. “Email, whether we like or not, is the lowest common denominator other than face-to-face. You would be hard pressed to […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams 7 out of 10 information workers feel overwhelmed by information. “The survey of 650 white collar and knowledge workers found that employees across virtually every industry are affected by information overload, but that the problem is particularly acute in […]
The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Topaz Technology will be demonstrating its line of business application integration tools at the SharePoint Conference 2008 next week. “Attendees will get a first look at new technology that will make structured data in SAP and Oracle seamlessly available […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Facilitate conversations. It’s where the interesting things are happening. “Conversations lead to passionate topics of mutual interest. Passionate topics of interest lead to ad-hoc community formation. Community formation leads to collaboration around shared activities, including document collaboration. Community collaboration […]
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