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Collaboration: a technological promise that is falling short (and it’s going to get worse)

For decades, technology has been advancing with the same promise: to make work smoother, smarter, more collective, and more collaborative. Each new wave, from email to instant messaging, from business social networks to artificial intelligence, has promised us that collaboration would finally be simple, almost natural, and on paper, the promise seems to have been kept: we communicate more, faster, with more people. And, in a way, we have succeeded in transforming the organization of work into a gigantic network of information flow. But in fact, the more we communicate, the less we really...

Always connected employees means a dysfuntioning organization

It's was the happy times of omniscient connectedness. "Always on" was fashionable. Mobiles, 3G, and wifi allowed us to be connected any time, anywhere,...

Why keeping guidelines and policies for social media only ?

There's no collaborative or social solution implementation that comes without guidelines or policies. That's a legitimate concern given the large range of freedom given...

After Email, What If We Get Rid of Meetings

What if, after email, meetings were the next curse businesses will have to deal with ? If we listen to employees and even managers,...

Digital Workplace and Intranet : the 2013 trends (part #2)

As promised, here's the second part of my post on the Digital Workplace trends for 2013. • User Generated anything Initiatives aiming at having users generating...

Social and 2.0 : employee adoption does not matter. Manager’s does.

Summary : making employee adopt new usages and tools is often seen as pivotal for the success of any social business or 2.0 initiative....