Vaughan is the Operations Manager at Beca Applied Technologies, part of the Beca group. He’s talking about three stories in Beca’s collaboration journey. Key points: – Story 1 – TeamView, a SharePoint based team site. Have been using SharePoint for a long time, since 2004/2005. Have about 325 […]
Thomas Salmen from Orcon is talking about collaboration in a fibre world – here at the Working in Collaborative Environments conference in Auckland. Thomas is the CTO at Orcon, and was recently announced as the 2012 New Zealand CIO at the annual NZ CIO Summit. Key points: – […]
Frank from Tait Communications is speaking about orchestrating and managing collaborative strategy. Frank is based in Christchurch. Key points: – Tait creates radio solutions for sale around the world. About 90% of products are exported. Have staff around the world. – Key steps – (1) aligning with strategy […]
Jason Perry from Health Alliance and Simon Burgoyne from BlinkMobile are presenting on mobility enabling collaboration, at the Working in Collaborative Environments conference in Auckland today. Key points: – Health Alliance has 500 staff, supporting 26,500 staff in the district health boards. They manage 81,500 assets worth over […]
On The Smarter Office blog, I posted about The Power of Turning Up: “In a recent client engagement I have been reminded again of the importance of turning up in person when you are exploring possibilities for how people work together through new collaboration technology. A phone conversation […]
Owen Allen, the VP of Solutions at Pingar is speaking at the SharePoint User Group in Christchurch tonight on using SharePoint 2010 as an enterprise application platform. Pingar has some of its developers in Auckland, so Owen is here for discussions with the team. He’s seeing New Zealand […]
Igloo Software added real-time language translation to its cloud-offered social business suite: “Worldwide collaboration can only work in a multilingual network, and that’s why Igloo now crosses international barriers with ease. Upon login, users can set their default language preference. As they collaborate with peers in different countries, […]
If you’re looking for a good state-of-the-art conference on collaboration to attend in November, you may have to choose between two that happen to be on the same days: November 12-15. The first is E2 Innovate in Santa Clarita, focused on the latest collaboration tools and services. The […]
In my User Adoption Strategies book, I give a four stage model for thinking about how to approach adoption for second wave people; meaning those that don’t get turned on by features and among other things need much more help with “the why?” of SharePoint. In stage 2, […]
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 […]
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