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  • Tools for the real world

    November 7, 2010

    Back2Basics, change management, Collaboration, Strategies, technology
     

    Remember once upon a time when software, and technology in general, was held up as the panacea for all ills? It would bring us the paperless office, vastly reduced working hours, a longer life expectancy, and a better standard of living. I don’t think we’ve gotten here yet – stress related diseases run rife, workers toil […]

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  • Who is Responsible for Collaboration?

    October 21, 2010

    Collaboration, collaboration officer, organizational hierarchy, People and Processes, Strategies
    enterprise 2.0
     

    Recently on HBR an interesting post suggested that companies need to appoint someone to ensure that collaboration occurs, a Chief Collaboration Officer if you will.
    Chief Collaboration Officer is the person (or more likely group of people) who is tasked with“crafting a holistic solution to collaboration; one that involves strategy, HR, product development, sales solutions, marketing, and IT”. So, whose job is it?

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  • A Journey of A Thousand Miles

    October 6, 2008

    Business, Collaboration, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Strategy
    tnz1
     

    Subsequent to TelecomONE over the weekend, and after a session discussing the social media activities of Telecom employees – some issues became evident. I’ve always been impressed that Vodafone New Zealand allow (and, I assume, encourage) Paul Brislen, their…

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  • When the Boss Buys In, You’re Bound to Win

    September 27, 2008

    Business, Collaboration, Design, Governance, IT, New Zealand, Strategy
    unconference
     

      Next weekend I’ll be up in Auckland attending the inaugural TelecomONE unconference. The organisers, in an attempt to explain what TelecomONE is all about, have come up with the following; The Right People + Opinions + Discussions =…

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  • A monolith opens up

    September 6, 2008

    Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, The Cloud, Web x.0
    businessweek, skype, unilever
     

    Really interesting to read this article in BusinessWeek. It tells the tale of Unilever, the massive company that brings us such staple items as Vaseline(!) It seems Unilever is realising that the college graduates they’re trying to attract simply…

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  • Building better web communities

    September 4, 2008

    Collaboration, Design, Web x.0
    david terrar, icaew, online communities
     

    Session one at the unconference was led by David Terrar and looked at building web communities – after his experience building one for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). Some interesting thoughts around "why to…

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  • When you speak in the village square…

    August 14, 2008

    Business, Collaboration, SocialMedia, Society
    twitter
     

    Background: Individual A sent a friend an "@" prefixed tweet asking for advice. A company doing a general twitter search picked up the message and sent a message to individual A offering their services to help. Individual A spat…

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  • Now that’s a refreshing change

    August 13, 2008

    Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, SocialMedia, Web x.0
    o2con
     

    I go to the odd commercial conference and they all tend to have a slick veneer but underneath they’re money making enterprises (after all most conferences are organised by self-serving professional conference companies). I’m heading over to Office 2.0…

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  • Ever decreasing circles

    August 12, 2008

    Blogroll, Collaboration, Design, IT, Society
     

    Sarah posted over on RWW questioning the future for blogging. She questioned whether lifestreaming (which I’m officially terming digital diarrhoea from now on) will replace blogging as the digital trend de jour. In her post Sarah states that; There…

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  • Some cool stuff for SAP

    August 6, 2008

    Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, Strategy
    esme, SAP
     

    Has social media found a role within enterprise? I know it’s hard to believe but people are doing some really cool stuff for SAP. A bunch of geographically distributed people from various stakeholders (industry observers, Siemens, Adobe, SAP insiders…

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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