Simple concept, but have you thought about it? It’s funny because if you ask an entrepreneur or a self-employed person what they consider work or how many hours they work a week you will get a very different answer than if you ask someone with
Recently Harvard ran an article published by Serguie Netessine and Valery Yakubovich (from Insead and ESSEC) called “Getting Your Employees to Compete Against Each Other” and “The Darwinian Workplace.” Naturally this caught my attention. According to the article: “By using technology to create a form
The folks over at MIT teamed up with Deloitte to produce quite an interesting report around Social Business which included responses from almost 3,500 people around the world. The goal of the report was to shed some more light around what is happening in the
I don’t think anyone can really say when collaboration starts but I think we can all agree that it starts well before we enter the workforce. Most discussions around collaboration today have pertained to the enterprise, but we start to work with and communicate with
Let’s say you’re an executive at a larger size organization with around 100,000 employees and are looking to infuse your company with collaboration, where do you start? Now, I don’t mean starting in term of developing use cases or reviewing vendors. I mean, which department or
As we’re nearing closer to the book launch date (July 9th) I’m going to be sharing more content around the book and also some announcements. Today I’m happy to reveal who two of the contributors are to the foreword and afterword as well as what
This Wednesday the 16th at 10am PST Ben Haines, the CIO of Pabst Brewing Company will be joining me on a webinar to discuss some of the common collaboration problems that organizations face today. We’re going to try to have a casual discussion around what
I (and many others) have spent a great deal of time talking about why organizations should invest their resources in collaboration tools and strategies. But let’s assume for a moment that you didn’t. How long do you realistically see your organization going on without making
I had the opportunity to have several in-depth conversations with John Rooney (CIO of Technical Strategy) and Ethan McCarty (Senior Manager, Digital and Social Strategy) of IBM. The conversations resulted in our recently released case study on Implementing Enterprise 2.0 at IBM. Here is an
1. Individual benefit is just as important as the overall corporate benefit (if not more important) Don’t focus on the overall corporate value and benefit when communicating collaboration to employees. Employees care about how this will impact them on an individual basis. How will this
