The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams “Home Week” … One company instituted a monthly “home week” when all managers are in the office and more available for face-to-face interaction. “During Home Week, there is a lunch for the 10-member management team and a “deep-dive” executive […]
In response to James arguing that Collaboration tools are anti knowledge sharing? (which I responded to) Stephane writes: “Well this is what’s happening where I am working! Our organization was not able to manage the spread of collaboration tools since we have about 5 different platforms, including our […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Dealing with Baddies … Ideas for dealing with rude or unprofessional coworkers … mainly when you can be there in person to do something about it. How do we handle this in the virtual world? ConnectIT The Technology Trends […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Emergence = Messy … Jim ponders the meaning of “emergence” and its role in organizational life. “In some respects, “emergence” is a fancy organizational development word for “messy.” The more our systems must deal with the complexities of the […]
Doug and Jonathan from Microsoft, plus Chan from Provoke Solutions, presented a session entitled “Creating Business Value through Collaboration”. After the introductory video about Parks Canada and its embrace of Office 2007, Jonathan discussed the changing nature of work. Eg, from individual productivity to collaborative team productivity, from […]
I was late to the UC session, due to some conversations with Microsoft people about SharePoint over coffee. On entering the room, a lady from Wintec, a tertiary educational institution in NZ, was discussing some of the business challenges they are facing around educational service delivery in NZ, […]
Key point: NZ needs to do better at innovation going forward. How can NZ businesses become better at this? Innovation means lots of different things. See wikipedia for a list of types of innovation. Two drivers of the top 10 focus on the end user (quality, environmental impact), […]
Doug wants to speak about technology at the AA. He’s been the CIO at AA for about a year. Will talk about: 1. The history of AA 2. The brand 3. The ICT operating model 4. Recent projects 5. Upcoming things History AA in NZ started in Auckland […]
Steven Carden, McKinsey and Company – author of “New Zealand Unleashed” – sees himself as an expert on change. And yet, when he became a parent, he found out about the extent of change – main lesson: we experience a lot of changes in the world – New […]
Microsoft are in town for an afternoon of business focused talking around communication, collaboration and the like. The “Connect” series is about linking new technology with business needs. The aim is to help IT Managers and CIOs articulate business-oriented technology to their businesses. The new South Island Regional […]
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