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Brad Grissom’s career path exemplifies how the separate skillsets of business and IT can meld harmoniously together.
His background in business continuity and disaster recovery planning has proved very helpful in his current role as senior manager of communication and collaboration solutions at Southwest Airlines.
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How do you define digital workplace success?
To me, a successful digital workplace is one that helps us get jobs done.
The idea of the digital workplace emerged from the content-centric world of intranets, as people began to recognize there was more to work than intranet content alone.
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When enterprise social collaboration technologies started hitting the mainstream five or six years ago, some argued social was just a fad — real business was done through more structured collaboration platforms.
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Your business depends on effective internal communication to run efficiently, but this is easier said than done.
With new channels and applications emerging all the time, employees face a bewildering set of choices.
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Social and collaboration tools in the workplace get a chance to shine when put to work to improve specific business processes.
It's not about transparency for transparency's sake. Or an opportunity for shameless self-promotion.
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When Microsoft rolled out Office 365 Groups in 2015, it once again thrust the future of Yammer into the spotlight.
The enterprise social network (ESN) industry at large closely watched the move as other providers, including Jive and Beezy, continued to enhance their platforms.
Many of these questions were answered in September with Microsoft's announcement of a
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Is anything rarer than an intranet that employees love?
While I’m fully versed in the black swan model of how it’s impossible to prove a negative, this might be the exception.
All enterprise intranets and social networks have the same glaring flaw that technology cannot fix: search.
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More and more employees are no longer willing to accept management strategy, particularly when it comes to technology.
“Almost 80 percent of our workforce are using Slack,” the IT manager told me ruefully. “It wasn’t part of our plan.” I’ve heard the same story on a number of occasions recently.
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It's time to see what Facebook at Work can really accomplish and what kind of impact it'll have on the enterprise social network (ESN) market.
The social network king is set to launch its new enterprise collaboration platform next month.
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Before social media hit the mainstream, we had no idea how engaging – or frankly, addictive – it would be.
This month marks the tenth anniversary for Facebook’s now ubiquitous news feed – an innovation from the social network giant's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, that many users initially detested.
Lessons
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The UK electorate sent shockwaves across markets, businesses and governments alike by voting in favor of leaving the European Union. Questions about economics, growth and business productivity are at the forefront of many peoples’ minds and will remain there for quite some time to come.
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It's summer vacation time — do you know where your experts are?
While the quiz below won't necessarily help you locate your sales rep in the Bahamas, it will give you a sense of how good your people finder is.
Answer the series of questions.
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The phrase "knowledge is power" has become such a cliché, it's easy to dismiss its truth. We sometimes forget just how crucial knowledge is for culture, society and, of course, business.
Accumulated organizational knowledge is called corporate memory.
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Searching for expertise
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