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Tag: enterprise 2.0 (page 7)
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Escape the Cubicle with Office 365
We are no longer tethered to an office — high speed Internet and cloud capabilities took care of that. With mobile devices that can connect to the internet and the cloud, and digital workplace tools that allow collaboration from anywhere, there’s just no point in being stuck in a cubicle.
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How To Hire Your Super-Team
The concept of the “super-team” is the heart and soul of countless comic books and movies: a unique group of individuals that come together, despite their different backgrounds, to make something great happen.
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Unify Square Gets $4M for Skype for Business
Unify Square, a startup that helps businesses implement Skype for Business, secured another $4 million in funding in a round led by Microsoft. This brings the total of an extended Series B round that started in February to $12.2 million.
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Sure You Can Work All the Time ... But Should You?
Mobile apps promise a revolution in how we work. Along with social apps, mobile apps let knowledge workers stay in touch with colleagues better and perform tasks wherever they happen to be. That might be at a customer site, at home or even on vacation.
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The Road Half-Traveled: Attaining Mobile Success
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost describes the conundrum of choosing between two paths. And while literary experts argue that it wasn't Frost's point at all, the poem is commonly used to reinforce the idea that there is merit in taking the harder, less-traveled option.
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Start Your Collaboration Off on the Right Foot
Collaboration technology adoption in the enterprise can be a daunting pursuit. Many great tools have been designed to better facilitate team cooperation and productivity, while also contributing to a company’s bottom line. A Clinked.com survey found that 75 percent of businesses are using (or planning to use) enterprise collaboration tools.
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Are We Too Fixated on Collaboration?
Solutions, engagement, productivity, collaboration. The marketing language surrounding enterprise IT software comes with its very own jargon, and the word "collaboration" in particular is overused. Office 365’s product page talks about helping “collaborate across departments.” SharePoint pledges to help potential customers “store, sync and share and easily collaborate,” Google Docs
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Your Collaboration Program Didn’t Fail. It Just Needs to Evolve
We’re all familiar with the Scary Analyst Headline: "Gartner Says 80 Percent of Social Business Efforts Will Not Achieve Intended Benefits Through 2015." Companies across the globe have trembled under the shadow of this warning, wondering if their efforts will be doomed into the darkness of Collaboration Failure.
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Will Information Overload Ground the Digital Workplace Before it Takes Off?
By some estimates, data in the workplace doubles every 18 months. And being able to process and make sense of this data has become an increasing challenge as updates and notifications come in from all directions — on the desktop, from mobile devices and soon from wearable devices as well.
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3 Keys to Your Next Promotion
This is not a "Top X Tips" article. If, after reading this article, you say to yourself "if I do these three things, I'm guaranteed a promotion," you are too naive to deserve a promotion.
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A Little Bit of Collaboration Culture Goes a Long Way
One of July's themes at CMSWire is "Keys to Successful Enterprise Collaboration." Allow me to recommend a thought-provoking article by Sam Marshall: "Why Collaboration Works for Others, But Not for You." Here I’d like to offer a different and, I think, more basic approach than Sam’s.
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CMSWire Tweet Jam: Keys to Successful Enterprise Collaboration #SocBizChat
Collaboration certainly isn't a new idea — businesses have been practicing for years — so how is it possible that so many companies continue to fail in implementing a successful collaboration strategy and what are the secrets of those that are getting it right? Join us as we discuss these
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Conquer Your Workplace Distractions
“Before we begin, please put your phones on silent or vibrate.” Sound familiar? Meetings, lessons and conference sessions routinely begin with this message.
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Your Office Is Everywhere
Describing the traditional office used to be simple. It was the place you’d enter every workday, to do the job you’d been paid to do, that you'd leave at the end of the day.
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