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The Digital Workplace Should Shape Up or Ship Out
Workplace technology still lags behind consumer technology trends — no surprises there. But the impact this disconnect is having on employees should cause any business manager to take note. A recent research collaboration between Dell and Intel backs up with data my own observations in the field that employees “are
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3 Reasons Why Corporate IT Investments Fail
Here’s a fact about corporate IT investments: All investments made in hardware and software, development and deployment are sunk cost, never to be recovered. That is why IT investments need to start generating as much business value as possible from day one.
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Social Networks Don't Need Management's Blessing
It's widely believed that one of the best ways to encourage Enterprise Social Network (ESN) adoption is for leaders to set an example. However, research we’ve conducted over the last four years places much more emphasis on personal interest. When working with clients to develop digital workplace strategies we often
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Integrated Digital Workspaces Clean Up Your Clutter
Most people would agree that technology has improved our lives. From global interconnectedness to better cab services, a sea of apps strive to solve all of life’s small inconveniences and make us more efficient, capable human beings. Yet technology exacerbates one problem: clutter.
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The Antidote for Digital Workplace Chaos: Governance
We love the digital workplace, with all the potential and advances it offers. But with these benefits comes a dark side, and that dark side is called Digital Workplace Chaos (DWC). Chances are you’ve experienced it yourself.
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Mind Your Manners on Social Networks
So you want to incorporate enterprise social software into company operations.
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Is Microsoft Building an Outlook Chat App?
Apple, under Steve Jobs leadership, was known for its secrecy — very little was known about the iPhone, for example, before it was officially unveiled. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella’s leadership, may go down in history for its propensity to leak information. There was the acquisition of calendar app Sunrise that
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Let Your Social Collaboration Use Cases Lead the Way
For many organizations, the move towards social collaboration is entirely grassroots-driven. Pockets of employees find a tool which meets their need, and suddenly the organization is faced with many different, unsupported technologies.
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Yammer Co-Founder Wants to Change Your Work - Again
Adam Pisoni likes to change lives — or at least the way people work. Pisoni and former PayPal COO David Sacks founded Yammer in 2008. The enterprise social network arguably changed the way millions of people work. Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion in 2012.
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The Line Between Web CMS + Enterprise Social Networks Blur
While conducting research for my yearly enterprise social network update, a trend that had been simmering for a while bubbled to the top: Quite a few enterprise social networking vendors had or were planning to extend their software in ways that make them nearly indistinguishable from web content management solutions.
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FaceBox at Work: The Newest Collaboration Solution?
We are hardly out of the 2015 gate and the enterprise collaboration market is already experiencing a shakeup. Facebook released Facebook at Work on Jan. 14, the same week Box resuscitated its delayed IPO event, slated to launch tomorrow.
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Slack Extends Collaboration Offering with Plus Plan
Collaboration software provider Slack launched some new features this week that target companies with growing teams. The San Francisco-based provider is betting on these teams needing help with single sign-on, compliance exports, a 99.99 percent uptime guarantee and 24/7 premium support.
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Who Wants To Play With Facebook At Work?
Facebook unveiled its new social network Facebook at Work today, a sign of its interest in the lucrative office productivity and collaboration market. A smartphone app called Facebook At Work, with the look and feel of classic Facebook, is now available in app stores.
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Where Social Collaboration Is Heading
Social collaboration software has come a long way, both in terms of acceptance in organizations (if not daily usage) and products. Ten years ago social collaboration was mostly thought of as Facebook for the enterprise, an unfortunate tagline that suggested frivolity and not utility.
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