A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…
Security is often identified as one of the barriers to wider cloud adoption. Even though it is often counter to reality, there is significant doubt in many organization’s minds about the relative security of cloud as opposed to their…
CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what…
Ever since the term Enterprise 2.0 was coined, commentators have struggled to not only define it, but to also find good examples of its success. One of the reasons for the disconnect between the theory and the practice is a focus by those who strive for an easily understood definition, on explaining Enterprise 2.0 as “Facebook for the Enterprise”.
We’ve been told for years that incentivizing employees is the secret to better performance.
A great talk given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) questions the assumption that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want and, the corollary, that if you punish something, you get less of the behavior.
Dan Pink refers to a study at MIT which was funded by the Federal Reserve. In this study, a whole group of students were given a set of challenges – physical, cognitive, and spatial. Performance was incentivized via monetary reward in an approach typical of most workplaces. So what happened?
A few years ago, back when we were young and naive and thought that social media was some passing fad that the young-uns would soon forget about, Serena Software created some waves by creating “Facebook Fridays”. Facebook Fridays was a quaint and old-world approach towards meeting employees’ desire to participate in social media activities by using […]
We hear plenty these days about the dawning age of Generation Y, that generation that has grown up knowing nothing but the availability of social networking, online gaming, ubiquitous computing and the incredible freedom of choice and information that …
Recently released data shows the adoption of cloud computing breaking through the 50% barrier for the first time. The “Cloud Barometer Survey" research results were released last month and the study looked at how an organizations views its data…
