Two of the scenario areas that Dorje and Sam covered in the recent ClearBox Consulting Intranet Analytics report were Collaboration and Culture. These are described as follows (on page 10): Collaboration is often a major strategic goal for organisations. This scenario asks whether the analytics tool can be […]
At the end of 2011 I published Collaboration Roadmap, and then faced a decision about what to do regarding User Adoption Strategies. That first printing had sold well, and with only 50 copies left to sell, I could just order another print run or alternatively write a second […]
Alfresco is an enterprise content management and business process management vendor. In the early days, Alfresco cut through the noise due to one of the founders being ex-Documentum, one of the players-to-beat in the ECM space at the time. Over the years, the firm has matured its offerings, […]
When I was putting the finishing touches on Re-Imagining Productive Work with Office 365, Microsoft announced a flurry of new customer signups. One of those was the engineering, design and project management consultancy Atkins, with over 18,000 employees around the world. Atkins is mentioned in passing in the […]
Not all clients want to buy into the complete service offering that is Office 365. For various reasons, they have separate systems in their IT toolkit that they want to maintain, but notwithstanding that desire, they want to cherry pick specific capabilities from Office 365. For example, consider […]
Susan Hanley posted her review comments on my new book: Michael Sampson’s latest book, Re-Imagining Productive Work with Office 365, is a “must read” if you are currently using or planning to use Office 365. Michael is a brilliant author and approaches his overview of Office 365 not […]
One piece of big news out of Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto this week is that Facebook has embraced Office 365 for its more than 13,000 employees. In outlining the reasons for doing so, Tim Campos (Facebook CIO) listed the following: – Facebook employees are distributed around […]
The third step of taking a strategic approach to the use of Office 365 focuses on creating the right organisational context for achieving value. This is founded on the principle that any particular thing exists within a wider environment, and the wider environment either enables or constrains that […]
The next meetup for the Office 365 for Business group in Christchurch is now scheduled: Tuesday August 2, at 5.30pm. Exploring Co-Authoring in Office 365: What’s on Offer, and How to Use It The concept of co-authoring is to enable two or more people to work together on […]
On LinkedIn last week: By any current measure that I have seen, the adoption rates of Office 365 are going more than well. The most recent report from a week ago said that “in the last two years, Office 365 has eclipsed all other cloud providers to emerge […]
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