According to Dr. James Ware, author of the recently released book “Making Meetings Matter, How Smart Leaders Orchestrate Powerful Conversations in the Digital Age” notes that the 21st Century is the age of networked knowledge. And for me, that means connecting in a meaningful way with others, whether you do it via email, Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social …
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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.
Where Can You Apply Collaborative Leverage?
Collaborative leverage is a concept which talks about optimum performance in a process that utilizes some aspect of collaboration. It is the ability to apply the right technology to the right process at the right time with the right people. Below are the six areas we found in any size and type of company that have collaborative leverage. I have included the department, an example of where and how it can be used and what the benefit may be.
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.
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.”
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.
