Collaboration

We don't realize enough the progress that has been made over the last 20 years in terms of collaborative tools, with a clear acceleration over the last 10 years. Users will always complain about the limitations of this or that collaborative suite deployed in their company, and rightly so, but...

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced the end of Workplace, its enterprise social network launched in 2016 to compete with Microsoft Teams and Slack. I've seen a lot of reactions to this announcement, particularly regrets about the fact that collaborating has never been so important, and that it reflects the...

In a previous post I discussed the need to give a quantified, tangible form to the flows of work in order to understand what people really do, which is a prerequisite if we want to help them work better. This was impossible a few years ago, but today we have...

Since I have been working there has not been a time when I have not heard that we should put people at the center. And given that the subject already existed before and still exists today, it seems that we haven't really got there yet. What does it mean to...

The digital workplace has been marketed as a lever for organizational performance for so long that it is taken for granted. But on closer inspection, this is not always the case and it can even be the opposite. As you may have noticed, I have been wondering about the work...

If you were fed up with "The Big Resignation" and are still wondering what to do with "Quiet Quitting" you are not out of the woods yet because here comes your new source of headaches: "Quiet Constraint". Quiet Constraint: the new pernicious effect of remote working First of all, what is...

There is a lot of talk about digital illiteracy when talking about people who, because they do not know how to use digital tools, are increasingly handicapped in a society where the acts of daily life are becoming more and more digital. But with the exception measures linked to...

Recently, businesses have been facing two evils: remote work for which they were not ready and meetings that they never knew how to organize. So when remote meetings started to become widespread, it was a sure bet that we were heading for disaster, by marrying two plagues. I admit that I...

Do we work better together when there is something between the members of a team or is collaboration a primarily technical act that can be satisfied with the minimum of shared human context? It's not a subject for the high school diploma, but I think that many managers and executives...

It's been a long time since we've had a major announcement in the small world of the Digital Workplace, and here we are: Salesforce has just gotten its hands on Slack for the modest price tag of $27.7 billion. Since then, projections on the potential synergies between the two are...