Melba looks at the reasons why intelligent and well-meaning people resist change: “When you view resistance to change in the context of guarding the Performance Engine and apply it to your workplace, your boss’s resistance begins to look different and maybe even solveable. If someone is protecting her […]
About a month ago, Dion wrote a long post looking at where collaboration will thrive when it goes social. He covers a lot of ground, including: – The dominance of social media as a consumer channel for interacting with organizations – Most organizations don’t act and think like […]
I haven’t heard anything from Oracle in quite a while about Beehive, its next-generation collaboration suite. Is it DBA – dead before arrival? The Beehive Collaboration Software product page on Oracle gives the impression it’s still available. There are PDFs pointing to features in Beehive 2.0. The Oracle […]
AvePoint announced an offer to migrate 100 GB of data from SharePoint 2007 and other systems to SharePoint 2010: “AvePoint, a proven leader in providing infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, today announced that it will offer free licenses to migrate 100 gigabytes (GB) of data from […]
Dennis asks if smartphones are bad for collaboration, and gives a number of reasons why they can be: “1. Some collaboration requires developing and reviewing a document or file of some sort (word processing document, spreadsheet, image file, etc.) 2. Members of the collaborating group participate via a […]
The why of collaboration – that grand idea that brings us together in the first place – is all about purpose. Lokesh offers a set of steps for getting your purpose clear: “1. What’s the business problem you are trying to solve? 2. Why do you want to […]
As part of their series on collaboration, Jodi from Technology Review interviewed Irene Greif at IBM about the psychology of collaboration. The focus of the interview was about the non-technology aspects of collaboration, and they discussed: – Too much automation leads to process breakdowns. The system can’t see […]
Gil shares his thoughts on Charlene Li’s book Open Leadership: “The premise: leadership remains a requirement. Open and Social business are not leaderless — quite the contrary, they are lead in a manner that leverages new behaviors. To leverage them, they must adopt and model them too — […]
Craig at Time Management Ninja asks where are you your most productive? “Today, I want to ask, “Where do you get things done?” Not when. Not how. But, where? Often we talk about being, “In the zone.” I want to know where your zone is located. Where are […]
Google announced a new approach to providing discussion capabilities inline to a document in its Google Docs service: “The discussion about a document is as important as the document itself, but until now, there hasn’t been a great medium for this discussion to happen. Creating comments in documents […]
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