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Now that we have reached critical mass in adoption of mobile-friendly internet access technologies like smart phones and tablets, we have to adapt our way of operating. This goes beyond the typical BYOD discussion of how to secure a network, how to control data that is shared across multiple
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What's the future of collaboration, exactly? More to the point, what's the future of collaboration in the enterprise? You might be tempted to think there are no easy answers, but on the contrary, it might be closer to the truth to say the answers are right in front of us.
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Collaboration comes up frequently in discussions of workplace productivity, but are we all on the same page on what it means? Have the tools introduced in the digital workplace aid collaboration or complicate it? What next steps do businesses need to take to move forward with collaboration? Find out tomorrow
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Collaboration has been around for millennia. Webster tells us that to collaborate is merely to “to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something.
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Take any one task and look at all the applications you use to get it done. Look at all the people you need to involve to do it. Look at all the time you waste switching between apps, foraging for information, searching for expertise.
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What does this mean and how does your company need to plan for social radioactivity? Why Radioactive? First, consider what radioactivity truly is. From a chemical perspective, radioactivity literally means that an unstable substance is emitting energy and particles.
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A little over a year ago, I interviewed Adam Pisoni, co-founder of Yammer, shortly after it had been bought by Microsoft. There was much speculation at the time on how and when Yammer would fit into the Microsoft Office Division’s products. We recently regrouped.
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The book “The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action,” by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton thoroughly analyzes this phenomenon and shows the main reasons behind why it happens. What is Said vs.
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There’s a lot to be said for best of breed software, but one thing that hasn't been said is that these tools could be signing their own death warrant. How? Best of breed tools are, by nature, specialized, with specific functionality for the group they target.
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Collaboration requires more than the people on your team. The future of collaboration has moved beyond top-down task assignment and required participation with set deliverables.
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As I mentioned last month’s piece about getting back to the basics, this is the year when we figure out "the right mobile strategies and align them with business needs across different mobile personas, device types and intranet applications." Since the start of this year, 17.
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Organizations, businesses and entire industries are becoming more social. Does that really translate to better collaboration? I think so. Education and commerce are two areas where social forces are impacting the balance of power and in turn improving the degree and quality of collaboration. col•lab•o•ra•tion kəˌlabəˈrāSHən/ noun: collaboration; plural noun:
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One of the most cited reasons that companies deploy enterprise social networks is to enhance collaboration. It’s easy to see why. The theory goes “Your team will collaborate better with an enterprise social network helping people to share information more easily.
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As we move into a new way of work -- one based on more fluid and looser connections, grounded in freethinking, humanist and scientific approaches to the social contract -- it's becoming clear that the traditional model of "collaboration tools" is based around outmoded structures of control rather than the
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