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The Future of Emergent Collaboration, 'Smart' Platforms

November 11, 2011 by Jacob Morgan with 45 views

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how collaborative platforms are going to evolve or the next few years. After starting my vendor review series I was really able to get much more insight into what vendors are thinking and where they are going. [read more]

20 Success Factors of Collaboration

September 28, 2011 by Jacob Morgan with 98 views

20 factors of success in the six areas of environment, membership characteristics, process and structure, communication, purpose, and resources. [read more]

Looking Stupid and Other Risks of Emergent Collaboration

August 31, 2011 by Jacob Morgan with 42 views

The topic of risk isn’t new and I’ve discussed it here along with a risk assessment framework. However the typical types of risks we keep hearing about are those which pertain to the company as an entity. What about actual risks to employees that work at these organizations? We haven’t really spent enough time talking about these things have we? Think about it, what are the risks for employees using these tools at their companies? [read more]

Ways to Focus: Increase Your Team's Signal to Noise Ratio

April 3, 2011 by Yosh Beier with 69 views

Too much competes for our attention – deadlines, last minute request, surprises. A constant level of high urgency acts like noise. Here is what we can do... [read more]

Social Software Gaining Greater Traction with the Enterprise and Vendors Respond

May 17, 2010 by Bill Ives with 445 views

Forrester’s Rob Koplowitz writes that 2010 will be a defining year for enterprise 2.0 in his report, Enterprise Social Networking 2010 Market Overview. He goes on the writes that “a very broad and rich landscape of technology vendors will differentiate to stay relevant in this crowded market. With enterprise social technologies, buyers... [read more]

Libraries for the future

May 4, 2010 by Kate Carruthers with 256 views

I spent most of my youth and childhood hanging about in public libraries and reading their books. In fact I blame libraries for most of my quirks these days, since it was there that I was exposed to dangerous ideas from philosophers, historians and fiction authors. The local, school and state libraries provided a welcome haven... [read more]

If Collaboration is the Killer App for Bussiness

March 23, 2010 by Tac Anderson with 391 views

  I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about collaboration, open business models and open innovation. When I think about the future of business, how it operates and how its structured and if collaboration really becomes the killer app… What happens when collaboration with all stakeholders is fully integrated into all parts of... [read more]

Creating Accountability in Cross-Functional Teams

January 20, 2010 by Elizabeth Houck with 919 views

The 4th of the 5 Keys to Successful Cross-functional Team Leadership Over the years, I have brow-beat, begged, babied, and over-rewarded just to get team members to be accountable - the fact of the matter is you can't force accountability. Team members must make themselves accountable, not just to themselves but to the team.  The... [read more]

The Brutal Reality of Collaboration: Communication is Everything

January 15, 2010 by Alora Chistiakoff with 358 views

Over the past year, the Enterprise 2.0 space has started seeing some momentum that its evangelists have been waiting years to experience. And it's for one basic, underlying reason: Enterprise 2.0 is about collaboration, and collaboration is a profoundly difficult and expensive business problem, particularly in a down economy.... [read more]

Leadership! Sharing the Way

January 7, 2010 by Niall Devitt with 177 views

Describing “what is Leadership?” can prove a challenge for a great many organisations.  Unfortunately nowadays, leaders are expected to lead without ever being afforded the time to investigate what it means to lead. Is leadership a about the result? Is it more to do with the process? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? It is... [read more]

How many hats do you wear? Team Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

December 23, 2009 by Elizabeth Houck with 960 views

In my first post on cross-functional teams, 5 Keys to Successful Cross-Functional Team Management, I outlined the 5 keys needed for successful cross-functional team management: Goals, Roles, Responsibilities, Accountability, and Reward. My second post addressed the first of those keys: Cross-functional Team Leadership in Startups and... [read more]

Cross-functional Team Leadership in Startups and SME's: The First of 5 Keys - Goal Setting For Success

December 2, 2009 by Elizabeth Houck with 372 views

Goal Setting For Success I could talk about the perils of virtual cross-functional teams; and spout percentages on how most go over schedule, budget, or fail to meet company, customer, and personal expectations. But if goals are not clearly defined, how are the ever to be tracked and met? The first of five keys in this series on cross-... [read more]

Dreamforce 09 Day 1 - Lots of Chatter

November 19, 2009 by Ardath Albee with 229 views

The first thing I have to say about Dreamforce is WHOA! 19,000 people registered this year, from 60 countries. So many were in attendance that they had to have an overflow room for about 3,000 to watch Marc Benioff's keynote from afar.Salesforce.com clearly wants to see everything in the cloud...their cloud. What's not to like? A multi-... [read more]

Six ways technology is transforming small business

November 18, 2009 by Ross Dawson with 665 views

This article was written to frame The Insight Exchange's SME Technology Summit in Sydney on December 1. While many of the references are to Australia, the issues apply globally. Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are taking a larger share of the business pie and increasingly driving economic growth. This is one of the most... [read more]

Vendors Are Talking: Grocer is “not going to let someone steal my customer”

October 16, 2009 by jmcaddell with 101 views

Language, especially spoken language, is very revealing when it comes to someone’s values. This is why corporate executives are subjected to media training to keep them on message while speaking in public – meaning, of course, to appear to say something while not really saying anything. Sometimes, however, executives defy their training... [read more]

Giving versus Co-Creation

July 6, 2009 by JimBenson with 174 views

It’s 9:30 am at Moderate Technologies. Peter Weinberger, the president, walks into the office, and he’s excited. Earlier that morning while showering, he had an epiphany – one he believes will revolutionize how moderate people do moderate things.  He bursts into the office and exclaims, “I have this awesome idea! Let’s do it!”... [read more]

Office War: The Rules and Fools of Engagement

June 22, 2008 by David Zinger with 68 views

I came across the 5 minute video called The Great Office War. See what can happen from 4:30 to 5:00 when we fail to work together…as I.T. and Sales have an all out battle: Link to original post [read more]

Collective Intelligence in the Age of Conversation

June 9, 2008 by Mario Vellandi with 66 views

One year ago, I wrote an article for a nonprofit multi-author book project called “The Age of Conversation“. At the time, social media in the form of online blogs and other interactive/collaborative content was a very hot topic in sociology, journalism, and business circles among others.   While I saw the obvious benefit for social... [read more]

Sometimes the grass IS greener at a startup!

January 15, 2008 by AlexanderMuse with 42 views

Charlie asks, ‘Why aren’t you working for a startup?” You might work for a BIG company if you have ever: focused on getting that bonus to pay off your mounting credit card debt, instead of buying that shiny new Porsche you have had your eye on? told people where you work and had them ask if you know so and so in some department you... [read more]

Change: Use the Margaret and Ruth Principle

December 20, 2007 by Steve Roesler with 86 views

This article is the thirty-third in a series about Change from Steve Roesler. CBS radio newsman  Charles Osgood is a favorite of mine. On the Osgood File program, he tells the story of two ladies who lived in a convalescent center. Each had suffered an incapacitating stroke. Margaret's stroke restricted the use of her left side,... [read more]

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