Connect to Work
Last week I wrote about one of the key themes that I believe are going to make up the future work, I encourage you to read that post titled: The Future of Work is About Customized Work. There are several of these themes that I’m going to be exploring in the near future and the [...]
The Future of Work is NOT About Replacing Sharepoint and Email
Some still believe that the whole point of investing in enterprise collaboration tools and strategies is simply to replace existing systems that organizations are currently using such as Sharepoint and/or email. Let me be clear that it is about far more than that. At the core; we are talking about the future of work. Technology [...]
The Evolution of the Networked Enterprise: New McKinsey Research
McKinsey just released some more research on the use of social and collaborative technologies within the enterprise. Not surprisingly they found that adoption levels are continuing to climb and are almost double what they were in 2009. The more important finding from the research they conducted was that organizations are moving beyond the experimentation phase with many [...]
The Future of Work
A lot of companies are interested in what the future of work looks like and what direction companies are going to be heading towards. However, this means looking beyond just technology. Based on a lot of conversations that I and my team at Chess Media Group have been having with clients and other companies, I [...]
How Would You Work Without Email?
Sometimes when I speak with clients or companies interested in understanding the future of work and collaboration it helps to put things into an interesting perspective. There are many people (including business leaders) out there who are still not up to speed on what is happening in the world of enterprise social software, collaboration, and the future [...]
Humans are Taking Jobs Away From Robots, Not Vice Versa
First let me set the stage. I’m a big fan of Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson who are the authors of Race Against the Machine, a book which explore how technological innovation is impacting our jobs, skills, and wages- more specifically how technology is taking our jobs. Andrew McAfee was featured in my book, The [...]
Why Employees Should be Allowed to Work From Home
Today around 10% of Americans are regularly working from home, and for good reason. Many organizations today are starting to implement flexible work environments where employees can either work part time or full time from home or from a cafe, a bookstore, or anywhere else. There really is no longer a good reason to force [...]
Meet Josh: He’s Your Future Workforce
Meet Josh (my brother), he’s 18 years old and lives in Woodland Hills, California. He loves music and is a great singer, trombone player, and guitar player. Josh, goes to college and he’s very interested in math and science. He loves learning new things such as taking apart and putting together gas scooter engines, video [...]
