Productivity
Around the world of social software, particularly enterprise social networks (ESN), the discussion of value always gets back to a discussion of worker productivity. It’s a logical point of focus of course, I mean ESNs should increase productivity through reducing time to find correct information or expert(s); by reducing push email through a pull – [...]
Is Social Business Dead?
Has social for business run its course and now we should just move on, because there’s “nothing to see here”? Have businesses given it a good go and, finding no value, are they abandoning their efforts?
Breaking "Things" into Smaller Pieces
One of the byproducts of the Internet is a phenomenon that is impacting all sorts of things, the trend of breaking things into smaller and smaller pieces, dramatically changing the subsequent consumption models. The ability to connect everything using the Internet opened up new business / economic models, new ways of working, new ways to [...]
Emerging and Changing Employment Models
The recession and its aftermath created a business and social change wave that we’re still struggling to understand. One area in particular, work or employment, both the way people are employed and the way companies and individuals get at least…
Work: You’re Doing It Wrong
As is fitting on Labour Day, I’d like to draw together some threads I’ve seen over the last week, all relating to work. They may not seem initially to be connected, but don’t worry – I’ll get there!! The first came in the form of a post titled “Are Women Dissatisfied Enough?” on one of [...]
Work is Communication
Work relies on, no, consists of two things: brains and hands communication Brains and hands: The appropriate and best-possible ability must be available, that’s a good start. But what can brains and hands do unless they know what to do?…
The Human Cloud
I spent the past week in the clouds attending Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Salesforce likes to categorize its products into different "clouds", like sales cloud (sales force automation), service cloud (customer service system), data cloud (crowdsourced contact data), etc. In fact…
Get Ready for Chaos at Work, Warns Gartner
The world of work is going to become increasingly chaotic during the coming decade and organizations are going to have to plan for “radically different technology governance models,” warns industry analyst Gartner this month. The firm recently published a list of ten changes the world of work will witness during the next ten years, and [...]
SAPPHIRE NOW 2010
I’ve been a bit quiet lately in regards to the day job, many know I have switched roles inside of SAP but I’ve not really gone into great detail about what it is that I am doing these days. So I thought I would take a moment to kick things off with what I will [...]
