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Technology can help companies adapt to today's fast-changing landscape, but digital strategist Oscar Berg says firms also must develop a "communication culture" throughout the organization. Berg, who works with the Avega Group, a consultancy in Malmö, Sweden, discussed the need for greater collaboration during a one-hour CMSWire webinar last week.
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While being interviewed on stage at the Recode Code Conference yesterday in Pailo Alto, Calif., Windows CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated some new technology the company has been working on. Skype Translator, as it is currently known, will give Skype near real time translation capabilities.
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When Oscar Berg conceived the idea of a "collaboration pyramid," he did exactly what you would expect a social business expert to do. He shared the basic concept for the pyramid on his blog — so he could refine and improve it through input and feedback from his readers.
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Last week's Tweet Jam showed that interest in Enterprise Collaboration is live and well. Now if we could just agree on what it is .... Definitions are Easy, Right? We kicked off with what Bilal Jaffery called a trick question. It appears that the real trick was a.
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I’m intrigued, amused even, by the expression “the future isn’t what it used to be” coined by French poet Paul Valery to describe European pessimism after World War I.
Understandably, many found it hard to envision a future as they looked out over the devastation of their past.
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Following up on my last post about collaboration in the enterprise, it makes sense to explore collaboration technologies in depth.
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It’s been said that no man (or woman) is an island, and this is as true in innovation as it is anywhere else.
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Any discussion about collaboration that focuses entirely on the "knowledge worker" risks leaving a lot of employees out of the conversation. The Knowledge Worker Wikipedia gives a definition of knowledge workers, from which I will copy a quick snippet: What differentiates knowledge work from other forms of work is its primary
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Let's face it: Getting people's attention, getting time on their calendar, getting them on the phone, getting people to collaborate on anything is like herding cats.
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The lines between the CIO and CMO are blurring as the two roles become increasingly intertwined, led by marketing’s move to focus more around technology and great digital experiences.
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A couple of months ago, I shared a vision where all information was at our fingertips. It's a nice vision for the future of work but we have a more immediate problem: How do I collaborate with Jed in Toledo? There have been a lot of solutions proposed.
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Despite all efforts to trump it or get rid of it altogether in favor of other noble concepts like cooperation, the hard truth is that collaboration has always been here. And it will continue to be here for many years to come. It's a human trait.
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Our most used communication and collaboration apps have little understanding of today’s multilingual, multicultural, multinational businesses. They don’t reflect the nature of the modern workforce or the nature of globalization. Internationalism in software is equated with localization, end of story.
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The gateway drug to enterprise information silos We were all warned about the danger of gateway drugs. Just one moment of indiscretion using Bad Thing X would undoubtedly lead you into a lifetime of abuse of Bad Thing Y, which would eventually ruin your life.
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