Page 2 of 2 All in all, the three cycled through 11 collaborations – but importantly, they did not plan more than one or two pairings in advance. The agreed-upon cycling framework allowed the partnership to grow organically without being hemmed in by a rigid twosome or threesome arrangement. […]
Video Conference Users Distracted by Their Own Appearance
Video traffic has increased significantly, with large companies experiencing an increase of 70% annually according to Cisco research. In its own research, Steelcase found that people get distracted when they see themselves on video: 72% of workers notice their physical appearance on the screen when on a video conference […]
Hurdles Remain In The Adoption of Video Conferencing
The popularity and prevalence of video conferencing systems in the business world has certainly grown in the past handful of years, but unfortunately many roadblocks yet remain in the path of making unified communications technology a truly strong and lasting presence. Many businesses still report hesitance to adopt the […]
**Building the social enterprise**
Why do so few companies capture the full value of social technologies? There’s no doubt organizations have begun to realize significant value from largely external uses of social. 1 1. Roxane Divol, David Edelman, and Hugo Sarrazin, “ Demystifying social media ,” McKinsey Quarterly , April 2012. Yet internal […]
Does technology improve employee engagement?
From telephone and e-mail in the 20th century to unified communication and enterprise social networks in the 21st, businesses have long applied the latest technology in the hopes of improving efficiency and productivity. When this happens successfully, the investment turns in sufficient business impact to justify the cost. When […]
Social Enterprise 2013 – The End of the Beginning!?
Recent discussions in my network show some concerns regarding the job changes of experts in the field of social business. For example Rawn Shah, ex-Social Business visionary at IBM and writer-in-residence at Forbes, posed the question: “ Is social business as a field dying, or is it heading for […]
Employee engagement, social business, collaboration: are we getting it?
At last week’s CCE2013 event, a lively panel chaired by Alan Lepofsky addressed the topic of age in the workplace. By that I mean the panel opined on a not too distant future when there could be five generations in the workplace. […]
How to Lead Change Effectively by Learning from Past Setbacks
Some organizations go from project to project doing exactly the same things they did the time before – and the time before that. That would be OK if every change exceeded expectations and came in on time and within budget. But, the truth is, about 70 percent of organizational […]
Helping hands – purposeful collaboration lessons from CCE2013
Den Howlett | On October 30, 2013 I’m at Constellation’s Connected Enterprise 2013 in Half Moon Bay. It’s a very different kind of analyst event. It’s almost a non-event in the conventional sense, an unconference of sorts if that makes any sense. Sure, the vendors in the crowd get […]
Communications. Unified yet? Why not? – Quocirca Insights
Unified communications (UC) has been presented as a potential solution for all sorts of woes facing organisations; network complexity, playing telephone tag, high call costs, too much travel, desktop clutter etc. Despite lots of hype and huge marketing budgets from many of the biggest players in the industry, adoption […]