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 […]
Teams and groups that work together for an extended time run the risk of getting pulled into “groupthink” in the decisions they make. Given their shared history of discussions, debates, negotiations, and past successes, team members will internalize the attributes of decisions that will and won’t work in […]
Screenhero is a newly released tool for collaborative screen sharing between two (and more later) people. Each person can move around the shared screen independently of the other people, and make changes and edits as required. “Once you take that simple step, that’s it: you then have another […]
In one of the first sessions on the morning of day 3 at IBM Connect, Sean Brown, John Medicke, and Zi Ying Li, is talking about what’s new in IBM Docs. Some notes: 1. IBM Docs is available today via SmartCloud, and also for on-premises deployment with IBM […]
Jeffrey argues that the fundamental rule of brainstorming leads to boring thinking. He proposes a different approach: “In fact, this would probably be the most interesting strategy: ask him the most outrageous questions you can think of in order to force him out of his boring story comfort […]
On The Smarter Office, I posted on video conferencing where you work: “A couple of reports this week paint an interesting picture on the adoption of video conferencing equipment and approaches in the enterprise. According to a Deloitte study of 250 CFOs, making more video conferencing equipment available […]
On The Smarter Office, I posted my thoughts about the updated / enhanced / new ways of collaborating in the upcoming Office 2013: “It’s one of Microsoft’s regular big years this year, with a whole swath of updated products coming to market in line with Microsoft’s three or […]
PleaseTech, a vendor of document collaboration and review software / services, undertook some research last year into what users and IT professionals thought of SharePoint for document collaboration. It has released a white paper that summarizes the findings, including: – the types of issues people experience on a […]
IGLOO Software announced a partnership with MicroStrategy, for the integration of MicroStrategy’s business intelligence tools into IGLOO’s social business suite: “The solution will allow IGLOO customers to track user participation, influence, activity and engagement in a social intranet or extranet. As social technologies are introduced to business, workflow […]
37signals is getting ready to release a major revision of Basecamp. The calendar has been significantly upgraded: “It’s hard to believe we didn’t have a proper calendar in Basecamp until June of 2011. Before that we had a list-based view which worked exceptionally well for nearly seven years, […]
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