Leaders Who Don’t Support Collaboration Should be Replaced
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing“~ Albert Schweitzer Sometimes I wonder if leaders at companies really understand the power they have, not just from a corporate strategic level but from an employee behavior level. Leaders today’s have a responsibility not only to shareholders but also to the employees [...]
The Risks of “Gamification” for the Enterprise
This post was inspired by a discussion I had with Bert Sandie who is the Director of Technical Excellence at Electronic Arts. It seems as though nowadays everyone is talking about “gamification” for the enterprise. For those of you not familiar with the concept, gamification is all around taking game mechanics and concepts and applying [...]
The Cost of a Disengaged Employee
I’ve had a lot of interesting discussions lately around employee collaboration and one of the topics I’ve been having conversations around is employee engagement. Now before I go into more detail I want to stress that engagement in this case doesn’t refer to activity on a platform such as submitting ideas, commenting, sharing status updates [...]
Collaboration: Let’s Start Focusing on the How-To’s
There are a lot of great and valuable resources that talk about why collaboration is important (customer, partner, and employee) and why it’s valuable to organizations. While these conversations are still important to have I think we’ve reached a time when we need to start focusing more on the strategic and tactical side of how [...]
I Found a Chief Collaboration Officer and his name is Todd
I think at this point it’s safe to say that I’ve worked with, researched, and communicated with hundreds of companies around how they are leveraging emergent tools and strategies to impact their business. A few weeks ago I asked if we need a chief collaboration officer which received a lot of attention. Out of all of these [...]
What is the Future of Email?
Gartner has an interesting graphic they created which I stumbled upon after reading a CMSWire article. The image helps explain the email paradox which is email is not the best method for information sharing and distribution yet it’s not going to go away. The image compares email with social networking and looks at several variables. The most [...]
A Tool, A Tool, My Enterprise for a Tool
This week I’m at the CITE (Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise) conference in San Francisco where I’ve been able to have some interesting conversations with collaboration and IT leaders at various organizations around the world. I always learn something new from these events and it’s always great to see friends such as Kevin Jones [...]
Can Small Companies Benefit from Collaboration?
Many of the examples and case studies we are seeing today around emergent collaboration involve companies with thousands of employees around the world. But, this doesn’t mean emergent collaboration tools and strategies are only for the enterprise. In fact, nothing could be father from the truth. Collaboration can benefit any company of any size. Chess [...]
Ctrl – Alt – Social
In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough these are euphemisms or perhaps more correctly the opposite: dysphemisms – the substitution of a disagreeable word…
Collaboration by Design
Collaborating is one of those things we all do every day. We don’t think about every interaction we have and then wonder, “hey, did I just collaborate?” It’s just a part of how many of us work and behave; we’re social creatures. This is why it’s always amusing to have discussions on the value of [...]
Do Organizations Need a Chief Collaboration Officer?
More organizations are starting to deploy new collaborative tools and strategies as a core part of their business evolution to connect and engage employees. It’s becoming increasingly difficult (especially at large companies) to oversee these initiatives as typically there isn’t a role devoted to collaboration. Usually collaboration falls on the shoulders of employees with an [...]
Tibbr Leaps Forward With GEO Feature And HTML5
Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage), Tibco’s social tool competing with the likes of Chatter, released a new version, Tibbr 3.5 with two new features which makes the product pretty hot in the market. In fact, I have been pretty impressed with Tibbr by the time it came into the market. Unlike many companies who were totally clueless [...]
Collaboration is a Business Requirement
I find it interesting that when it comes to collaboration; oftentimes it still need to be sold as a line item. I mean, doesn’t that seem a bit ridiculous that a company needs to have someone explain why they need something that can connect their employees together? Some companies have some type of tool in [...]
Where are Collaboration Budgets Being Allocated?
When it comes to deploying a collaboration solution for the enterprise there are a lot of things to consider especially when it comes to budgets. Towards the end of the 2009 I wrote an article called, “Companies Interested in Enterprise 2.0 Need to Take Strategy Seriously,” which looked at data collected from a 2009 report [...]
Collaboration and the Zombie Apocalypse
Tools are never enough for anything and never will be. If I handed you a cyclotron, a spectrometer, or an atom smasher (yes, all physics tools) you would probably end up hurting yourself (as would I). The same goes if gave you a bulldozer, some wood, bricks, and concrete and asked you to build me [...]
