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Chat has replaced email, and it’s even worse

For years, email was considered the scourge of business collaboration. Too many messages, endless discussion threads, a disastrous signal-to-noise ratio. And I was certainly not the last to point out the risks of information overload or its unsuitability for modern collaboration. But what's almost magical about the world of technology is that every time a technology shows its limitations, another one comes along to complement or even replace it, even if the problem is more about how it's used than the tool itself. We have therefore seen a flood of instant messaging tools such as...

Making the most of key resources in collaboration

Summary : tomorrow's organization will be connected and communicative. This is the only way to success in the knowledge economy. But communication and exchange,...

Separation between personal and professional time dies hard

Summary : we're being told that the frontier between personal and professional is bluring, that ubiquitous tools are going to make it deprecated. We're...

Is workload measurement the problem of the century ?

Optimizing workload has always been a key concern for businesses and managers. A too heavy workload regarding to the capacity leads to explosion, a...