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Mastering the Digital Workplace Is an Overwhelming Task
CHICAGO — Companies and knowledge workers haven’t quite cracked the code of the digital workplace. They haven't mastered the perfect employee experience — yet. Those represent “overwhelming” challenges for those charged with leading digital workplace success in their organizations. All About Survival Brice Dunwoodie, founder and CEO of Simpler Media Group (SMG), delivered
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Stowe Boyd: Embrace Today’s Work App Fragmentation
Analyst and futurist Stowe Boyd examines the tools we use to work today while also exploring how the very nature of work itself may shift in the years ahead.
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How to Survive When the Robots Come For Your Job
The robots are coming for our jobs.
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Digital Transformation: The Elephant in the Room #DXS15
The term "digital transformation" has rapidly risen into prominence in the last few months, crowding out earlier terms used to describe the intentional, (r)evolutionary change in organizations that emerging technology has driven. (Editor's Note: Stowe Boyd will be presenting a session on the business implications of the IoT on Nov. 3 at CMSWire's DX Summit 2015 in Chicago) Changing How We Do Business The introduction and maturation of communication technologies in the 1990s sparked the business
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New Workplaces Mean New Demands on Leaders
We have been witnessing a defection from web 2.0 era "social collaboration" tools because they don’t actually help people get their jobs done. Those tools may reflect an idealized company of five or more years ago, although I doubt it.
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The Sticking Point with Social Collaboration Tools
Charlene Li, founder and CEO of Altimeter Group fights the good fight in a recent Harvard Business Review article -- "Why No One Uses the Corporate Social Network " -- but ultimately makes a conclusion that's not supported by her own data.
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What's Wrong with Social Collaboration Tools? Everything
Several forces are at work in the "social collaboration" tool marketplace that are creating great turbulence. It’s fairly well-known that businesses face a systemic issue with adoption of social collaboration tools.
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Social Networks Scale, When Will Social Tools?
The Rippling Out of Networks Consider how you operate at work. Perhaps you are a creative, a graphic designer in a large agency.
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The Fall of Collaboration, The Rise of Cooperation
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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2014 Predictions: What Side of the Future Are You On?
Here’s two very different sayings about the future. The first makes the case for effective prediction as something like blunt force trauma: Any useful idea about the future should appear to be ridiculous. -- Jim Dators I always hope that the ideas I offer about the future will have that
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Foundations of 'Social Rights' in a Scale-Free World
One of the central paradoxes of the social web is this: social means "me, first." That sounds selfish, but I don't mean "me, first" in that sense. What I mean is that in a bottom-up, open context, our identity comes first, before connection.
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A New Social Contract
In January 2004 I started writing a monthly column for Darwin magazine called Social Contract about the then-just-emerging awareness of social software, and since I am starting a weekly column here at CMSWire I thought I would take a look at that piece, with eight years of messing with social
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Curation in the Enterprise: Imagining Increased Social Scale
The current social business architecture -- a social collaboration layer sitting "on top" of non-social functional enterprise applications, like CRM, HR, ERP, a social frosting on a non-social cake -- is not going to meet the needs of 21st century business.
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