Collaboration isn’t working.
What we have ourselves here is a chasm. (this article originally appeared in CMSWire) Collaboration isn’t breaking out all over. Dear Colleagues: Can you feel it? Its the subtle loosening […]
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Prediction 2013: Social Business Tech will stop blaming culture for failure
Another CMSWire cross-post. The prevailing theory is that the main reason your business is not yet “social” is that you aren’t trying hard enough to change your culture. Really? In […]
If Social Business Is the Answer, What is the Question?
This article was originally published in 2 parts at CMSWire. What are the fundamentals of Social Business? Tough question. Maybe even the wrong question. Maybe the question is “What is […]
The Pursuit of (Organizational) Purpose.
In the last few years, we have all accepted as desirable cultural traits the ideas of “collaboration” and “engagement”. Many people have talked about why these values are, uh, valued. […]
Wicked Teams for Wicked Problems
Earlier this week, CMSWire published a well-edited version of this article. What follows is the unexpurgated, much longer version. Pick your poison. What are Wicked Problems? Some problems are such […]
Common Operating Picture – share facts, debate possibilities
The Department of Defense defines a common operating picture as “A single identical display of relevant information.” A COP is the key to enabling team analysis and decision making. In […]
G20, Social Media, Solving Hard Problems
This year the G20 did something different. Several weeks in advance of the G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto, they began to use a social collaboration tool to prepare for […]
Its not the same thing – the 3 types of collaboration
A year or so ago, i found myself in a (slightly heated) discussion around what the key enabling factors for collaboration were. Somewhere along the way, I discovered (as often […]
Is “collaboration” enough to make teams productive?
No. For years, the prevailing practices for productivity were project and process management. Now we’ve begun to recognize the critical role of collaboration, and collaborative software for improving productivity, but […]
Focusing on the Ends, rather than the Means
Collaboration is a means, not an end. I’ve said it, others have said it. Great. Good. Now lets focus on some of those ends – Many of which have been […]
