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…
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 .
Some Thoughts on Unified Communications
I have written about UC recently when I covered ConnectSolutions in a blog last month. I also think this area is changing rapidly. One of the factors is a new standard (owned by Google, but there is an open source version) WebRTC is this new standard that is changing the face of video conferencing, and ultimately UC.
The WHY of Collaboration?
Most companies today tell customers how and what, but not why because often they don’t know the why or can’t articulate it. This is something I have thought about for a while. Why do I do this, why have I focused on collaboration for most of my career? My answer is “I believe I can make the world a better place, one collaborative interaction at a time.”
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.
The Distribution of Work in 2015
You may have noticed some changes in the way you are working today, compared to how you did things 5 years ago. Maybe you do more on your mobile device, use more video or screen sharing? In December of 2014 we did a survey of three different populations with over 500 responses to look at how some of the ways we work are changing.
Distribution of Work in 2015: Collaboration Success, Challenges and Tool Use
Collaboration Success and Challenges When we asked what the top three challenges to collaboration success were in their organization, only one was about technology: Better collaboration technologies (52% felt their tools did not support distributed work) More transparent and interactive leadership Cultural change for more transparency, better communication and coordination We also asked what made…
Collaboration and Your Economic Graph
Jeff defined his Economic Graph as “a tool that can “digitally represent” both every economic opportunity in the world” and “every skill required to gain those opportunities.” Combined with a database of “a professional profile of every worker in the world,” this theoretical tool would not only provide job-seekers with potential career destinations, but also — and here’s the disruptive bit — give them a clear idea of how they might arrive at those destinations.”
