IBM is hosting a webinar next week on making decisions collaboratively using Cognos Business Intelligence and Lotus Connections: “IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides built-in collaborative and social networking capabilities to fuel the exchange of ideas and knowledge that naturally occurs in decision-making processes today. Teams can lose tremendous […]
This is the fifth post in a series about defining collaboration. Previously: – Post 1 looked at the three P’s of collaboration (potential, process, and practice). – Post 2 talked about four types of work. – Post 3 examined the ceiling of opportunity and value. – Post 4 […]
I came across Agilewords a few days ago – a new web-based application for co-authoring of Microsoft Word documents. A few comments: 1. The co-creation of documents, with a lead author and many reviewers, or even with many authors, is a painful process. The dominant approach today is […]
Creating a mindmap is a frequent activity in my work and life, and while I don’t use the MindMeister online mind mapping tool, I’m impressed with the feature and capability enhancements the company has made over the past few years. A couple of things caught my eye today: […]
Google will soon release a new tool, Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, that enables users to upload their Microsoft Office documents to Google Apps, and then work collaboratively on them with others. “Google plans to formally introduce the new Google tool, called Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, later […]
I believe people need better calendaring capabilities for meeting scheduling – see Pillar 4 of the 7 Pillars, plus Calendaring: Are We There Yet? So it is good news that Microsoft is enabling better calendaring in Exchange, meaning that the scheduling of meetings between people in different organizations […]
Good to see the updates and improvements rolling out from SAP for StreamWork, its collaborative decision-making service. I said last year that I was worried the offering is too special purpose and that this would hinder uptake and adoption … but it’s still early days. A couple of […]
Nancy Settle-Murphy from Guided Insights writes a monthly newsletter about effective virtual teams. In her newsletter for February, she writes about being prepared for the bad things that can derail virtual meetings: “Normally, I ascribe to the 80/20 rule when it comes to planning meetings or designing training. […]
In the November 2009 edition of InsideKnowledge, there is a case study of how one group at Clifford Chance LLP — one of the world’s largest law firms — stopped using email to collaborate and embraced a wiki instead: “The Clifford Chance Foundation is made up of staff […]
Microsoft released the above video about upcoming capabilities in the next edition of Office for Mac. Three items stood out to me: De-siloing of Outlook … Outlook for Mac is coming, with “Entourage” going away. One of the problems I have with Outlook (and most integrated mail clients […]
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