Interesting dynamics at play with Virgin America – which is failing to perform in the North American market: “Reporting in August, the Chronicle noted that, despite all its rewards and glowing reviews, since 2007, Virgin America has posted a net loss of $671 million and an operating loss […]
Over the past four years I have flown from New Zealand to London … at least 10 times, with the most being four times in one seven month period. If it has been possible, I have always chosen to fly via Hong Kong, due to getting access to […]
A couple of years ago Billy Cripe wrote about the difference between intentional and accidental collaboration. During a discussion with the CTO at a government agency earlier this week, he mentioned how powerful he found the distinction, and that it was being used as a key mental model […]
Sage advice from Richard Branson about communicating effectively: “It’s great to be tech-savvy, but don’t text or email when you should be calling. “The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some […]
David comments on a recent study about how regular users of Facebook feel more overwhelmed due to excessive information in the news feed: “Active Facebook users are more likely to complain of information overload–and to believe it’s gotten worse in the past year, according to a study published […]
In both 2011 and 2012 I attended (and spoke at) the Intranets201X conferences in Sydney. Both were very good events – well-organized, well-attended, well-run. I’ve been to few conferences around the world over recent years, and the Step Two team put on a world-class event both years. The […]
Miles Fordyce spoke at the recent CIO Summit in New Zealand, about NZ Post’s experience with Google Apps for Business: “Collaboration tools in large enterprise is not all that it is cracked up to be, especially if collaborating is not inherent in the culture of your company, says […]
“For as long as I have been running my own business, I have advised clients who were using various IBM technologies as part of their collaboration technology portfolio. In recent years, some of these clients have started using IBM Connections. I wanted a book to give to my […]
ConceptDRAW announced an integration with Evernote, to allow for various levels of integration between mindmaps and the Evernote service: "ConceptDraw MINDMAP can now, with the press of a button, save a single topic or a branch to Evernote for your future reference. The text from the entire map […]
In the second-to-last blog post I’ll be writing for The Smarter Office, I posted about adoption of mobile devices and apps, and how the current dynamics are different to collaboration systems: “… there are a range of practical and sociological factors at play in the adoption of collaboration […]
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