Kategorie: English language articles
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Why Social Collaboration fails: Old Habits and Persistence, Command and Control
The obvious question is: Why the corporate social network lacks the participation and lively zest found in consumer social media systems? And what can be done about it? Source: Learning from HBR: Making corporate social network collaboration successful – Work Monkey Labs Interesting thoughts on the lack of adoption of Collaboration software and Enterprise Social…
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The real Collaboration Challenge: Get your Employees interested. And give them a Hand … After all
Great article by Paul Rubens on Computerworld Malaysia with a lot of truth: The real challenge is to get your employees adopting your solution (whatever it is): „G2 Crowd found that only four platforms could regularly boast adoption rates above 75 percent, and no product achieved 100 percent adoption.“ Companies are going to invest in…
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AI Is More Than Machine Automation: It’s About Human Augmentation
Great read on Artificial Intelligence and how we should approach, control and manage it: AI to Augment Human Processes he future of AI in the workplace is not about AI as a crutch, automating tasks and removing responsibility. Those who employ AI in this way face a future where the human eventually has nothing to…
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Whitepaper: Cognitive Systems And The Workplace Of The Future – Creating new forms of employee engagement through intelligent IT
The article and the Whitepaper are in my opinion a must read for everybody thinking about the Workplace of the Future: The way we work is undergoing a major shift. We expect the same kind of intuitive, tactile experience with our workplace technology that we now take for granted with our smartphones, tablets and gaming…
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Communication & Collaboration: Generational Preferences at Work
I think the distinction in the different generations from Baby Boomers up to Generation Z is very often to stereotype. Baby boomers can behave like Millenials and vice versa. Nevertheless I found this graphic from Avanade quite useful illustrating the different working and communication styles: And these quotes fit perfect into the picture. The Most…
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Collaboration: „Unifying Systems behind simple, intelligent and elegant User Interfaces“
I do agree with the conclusion, that we need a simple, intelligent and elegant user interface. According to McKinsey, the average worker spends 28 percent of their day dealing with email. This time, they argue, can be unlocked through the use of social and collaborative tools, raising the productivity of knowledge workers by 20 to…