A recent BusinessWeek article talked about the work at JPMorgan Chase to predict patterns of behaviour in order to allow the bank to have an early warning system on employees who may be trending toward misbehaviour. The summary on the web says: JPMorgan is responding with efforts to […]
A couple of weeks ago IBM released the first set of trial accounts for IBM Verse, its new Watson-powered email system for enterprises and individuals. The IBM marketing around Verse position it as a transformative approach to email, and a re-imagination of what email is like. IBM’s people […]
In a recent BusinessWeek article on Recruiting Preferred Skills (print edition, April 13-19, 2015), I was initially surprised and then delighted to see the prominence placed on the “ability to work collaboratively.” It was very cool to see the reality of collaborative capability being emphasised by corporate recruiters. […]
Like many others, I bill my time to projects for both internal time tracking and client work. I have a time recording system that’s well integrated with the rest of my project management arsenal, and while these announcements won’t impact me directly, it is interesting to see the […]
With the Apple Watch having a stunning opening weekend, plus the current availability of Android Wear (go Moto 360!), Microsoft Band, and other improving fitness trackers coming to market, the wearables trend is going mainstream. The Apple and Android options allow the installation of apps, meaning these have […]
Neoman Studios and CT Business Travel published an infographic on 24 life hacks for stress-free business travel. Recent research conducted by CT Business Travel in collaboration with Neomam Studios has highlighted there are 33 triggers that cause stress for business travellers, the biggest triggers in particular are: lost […]
Microsoft announced a series of future and immediate updates for Yammer, with inclusion of Yammer in Office 365 Groups and Yammer signals in the Office Graph as future updates, while the ability to include external people in a Yammer network is available now. I’m pleased to announce a […]
Microsoft gave a sneak peak at the timeframe and focus areas for SharePoint Server 2016. Timeframe is general release in 2Q2016, with a beta in 4Q2015. The areas of focus are: – improved user experiences, with mobile device and on-the-go access front and center, along with tools such […]
I head to the United States at the end of next week, and will be presenting a custom version of the User Adoption Strategies Workshop at a client conference in Florida. Whenever I go away I allow myself a small budget to “experiment” with new ideas, new gear, […]
During 2014 I expanded the scope of my adoption research to the unified communications (UC) area. This included reading the literature on adoption activities for deployments of UC, interviewing organizations on the strategies they used to introduce new tools such as Microsoft Lync and IBM Sametime, and presenting […]
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