If we are going to stem the tide of failed projects, we need to get an understanding of the common reasons why business projects fail. Here are some of the more common reasons, and what can be done to mitigate them. Depending on which research article you look at, anywhere … Read More
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 Twin Challenges of Collaboration and Productivity
During the eight years from 2005 to 2012, output per hour expanded at an annual rate of just 1.5 per cent—the same as it grew between 1973 and 1996. More recently, productivity growth has been lower still. In 2011, output per hour rose by a mere 0.6 per cent, according to the latest update from the Labor Department, and last year there was more of the same: an increase of just 0.7 per cent. In the last quarter of 2012, output per hour actually fell, at an annual rate of 1.9 per cent. Americans got less productive—or so the figures said.
The Chesterfield Principle
Many organisations have an eclectic mix of software in use with teams, running across the organisation’s various capability groups. These software products range in size, from full stack…
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.
Planning The Enterprise IoT Network
Are you tasked with providing IoT connectivity? Here are some things to keep in mind.
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.
ONS: Driving Open Networking Standards
At the recent Open Networking Summit, leading service providers, standards organizations, and technology providers proclaimed 2016 as the year of open source networking. Proponents believe open source will provide the innovation and cost benefits to networking that have already been provided to the compute and storage industries.
NFV World Congress: NFV Progress And Standards
Here are highlights from the event, which showcased service providers’ NFV deployments.
Distribution of Work in 2015: Meetings, Metrics and Challenges
Everyone knows there are problems with meetings. There are unneeded meetings, meetings that are run badly, that don’t stick to an agenda, that don’t generate decisions. In all we looked at 20 common meeting problems. Overall, we spend about 15% of our time in meetings each week.
