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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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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…
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The Future of Collaboration: No longer Slave to one Rhythm, instead Rhythm is a Dancer
The discussion is on again, One-vendor-for-all-things or Best-of-Breed: The one-vendor-for-all-things-enterprise approach has no place in today’s business landscape, Levie says. “When you have providers of technology that focus on a specific area and build a best-of-breed technology, we just know empirically that customers get more innovation from that provider than a company that sort of…
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At Work: We need more than just the Central Information Feed, we need Artificial Intelligence augmenting our Human Intelligence
Very interesting posting: But over the past 10 years, as consumers of social media, we’ve become trained to receive and engage with information in the form of a feed. It’s now natural to us. … Social feeds are now intelligent, can figure out what you like – and what you dislike – and sort the…
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The Vision of an Effective Manager versus Today’s Micro Manager
Gallup found that 50 percent of workers who quit their jobs left due to issues with management, supporting the idea that employees leave bosses, not jobs. Employees today are looking for companies with less layers of management and more freedom in the workplace. … This means companies want: Less micromanaging and more autonomy Faster development…
