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Tag: francois pienaar
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Is it Time to Take Off Your Collaboration Training Wheels?
As a parent and a sales executive, it amazes me how similar the issues are that I face in the two worlds.
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Employees Don't Need Workplace Tools to Be Fun, Just Efficient
Let's face it: work isn't cool. Organizations have been trying for years to increase employee adoption of tools — and make work fun in the process — by incorporating gamification into the work environment. Gamification hasn't increased employee engagement and motivation the way organizations hoped it would.
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The Enterprise Social Network Market Heats Up
When Microsoft rolled out Office 365 Groups in 2015, it once again thrust the future of Yammer into the spotlight. The enterprise social network (ESN) industry at large closely watched the move as other providers, including Jive and Beezy, continued to enhance their platforms. Many of these questions were answered in September with Microsoft's announcement of a tight integration between the two, giving all Yammer groups access to Office 365 Groups. The Yammer announcement came shortly before the launch of Workplace by Facebook, the social networking giant's foray into the ESN business space.
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Innovation's Challenge: Focus on the End User
It’s the year 2030. You step into your Tesla-powered self-driven car, sit back and listen to Zoro (Siri's older brother) as he reads your high priority emails to you. As you drive past locations you've visited before, your car window becomes a transparent image library, allowing you to reminisce about that time you shared a waffle with your fiancé at iHop.
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The Virtuous Cycle of Collaboration and Employee Engagement
While some organizations still shudder at the mention of social anything, many more embrace social to not only enhance their external brand, strengthen internal employee engagement and, ultimately, increase profitability. Social Media vs. Social Collaboration Employees don't naturally jump onto social platforms to talk about the company they work for.
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Advancing Down the SharePoint Path to Greater Productivity
SharePoint’s popularity has ebbed and flowed over time, but now it is most certainly on an upward trend. Microsoft’s investment in conforming the platform to open development standards is slowly, but surely, paying off as developers of bespoke .NET applications are effortlessly transitioning to the HTML5 and CSS3 world now available in SharePoint.
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Why Office 365 Is Your Path to Streamlined Productivity
Considering the current excitement brewing around the Office 365 product suite, one could easily mistake this offering for a new solution. Microsoft’s flagship productivity offering has, however, been around since June 2011 with the provided benefits increasingly gaining momentum in markets worldwide.
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