Many of you have never heard of fractal organizations, I hadn’t until I talked to a colleague working on the Hyperloop project, which she described as a “fractal organization.” I could not find it on Wikipedia, but google (today’s source of all knowledge on the Internet) had a variety of listings. I looked at an…
Bioteaming and Collaboration
“Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer” Jerry A. Coyne, “Why Evolution is True” Many of nature’s mistakes are contained in the fossil record, but there are many of nature’s creations that are very effective and have lasted (virtually unchanged) for millions of years (the shark for example). David Zinger did a…
Virtual Reality and Collaboration
Virtual Reality (VR) is certainly the hot topic today, but it is not a silver bullet that will cure all collaboration problems, and mysteriously make collaborative interactions go flawlessly. What we are starting to see more of today is things like Augmented Reality (AR) that build upon traditional displays of information (like heads up displays)…
Wearables and Collaboration
“Wearable Technology: The Next Frontier”. The panel was composed of a number of experts: Yeves Behar from Jawbone, Mike Bell from Intel, Justin Butler from Misfit and Monish Perkash from Lumo Body Tech. Although the moderator asked great questions, as did the audience at the end of the session, no one talked about collaboration. The post Wearables and Collaboration appeared first on .
Why Don’t We Have The Collaborative Skills We Need?
With teams becoming more distributed (geographically), and hybrid meeting becoming the norm, collaboration is more important than ever. Yet, aside from learning to share toys in kindergarten, we get very few collaborative skills in our formal education. With teamwork becoming the norm, and more contractors or consultants on teams, collaborative skill improvement is both a unique and effective way to turbo-charge team performance.
Polycom Predictions for 2016
What changed in 2015? “Without question, 2015 will go into history as a pivotal year in the collaboration industry. At the beginning of the year, Polycom predicted big changes to the collaboration landscape, including increased use of collaboration tools in global companies, dramatic changes to workspaces, and a structural change to the way people meet.
Basics of Healthy Enterprise Relationships
Nothing can make an enterprise more profitable than healthy relationships. Relationships with customers, suppliers, regulatory agencies, etc. Most of what we see today, that is called “collaboration” is not really, is it people talking AT each other on line, trying to be heard and recognized, and I believe ultimately trying to connect.
