Often times, I would say that the last place to possible start an IT project that would be business facing would be in IT itself. Not that most haven’t successfully deployed projects on behalf of business but often times, business problems started and tried to be solved through and by the IT department most often […]
Jonathan Distad
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Magic Quadrant or Wave – Choosing a social business platform
We are starting to see some congruence in our techno-equalizers – the Quad and Wave. The leaders are starting to pull together: IBM SharePoint 2010 Jive But one area that is often noted is that many solutions are vertically aligned. That’s not a bad thing. As a general rule most of the leaders in either […]
Social Business through Human Resources
Often when we are brought on site for analysis’ of companies for social business endeavors, oddly HR comes up as one of the more useful areas of social business. Aside from IT or maybe Marketing, HR comes out as a business unit that has some of the most repeatable processes. Daily they bring on new […]
Reducing Total Cost of Care through Collaboration
HBR has a really great article on reducing the cost of medical care and they hit on a few topics that are close to what I am working on and becoming passionate about. We all know that medical care is messed up and spiraling out of control – even with government intervention. This hit me […]
Omnifind 9.1 – a brand new search
Admittedly, search hasn’t been IBM’s game for a bit. Slowly over the years we have seen their search product, Omnifind, come together and now with 9.1 it all changes – for the better. I have reviewed pretty much every major player in the search market from Autonomy to Google to Endeca to Lucene and […]
Buzz+failure=Google+
BusinessWeek has a really nice article explaining Google+. There are a lot of articles about Google+ and how to use it. It is intriguing in the BW article about how Google has struggled with social through purchases and organic builds. Each one has resulted in what some call “catastrophic failure” to “mis-fires”. I am not […]
20 reasons NOT to collaborate – You don't have ways to bring ideas to fruition
“Insert Ideas or Comments Here” – most companies have a suggestion or idea box. Usually its near an HR generalists cube because he or she is a young whipper-snapper and said the company needed one. Ideas are dropped in and they go into the suggestion abyss – never to be seen nor heard of again. […]
20 reasons NOT to collaborate – You don’t have ways to bring ideas to fruition
“Insert Ideas or Comments Here” – most companies have a suggestion or idea box. Usually its near an HR generalists cube because he or she is a young whipper-snapper and said the company needed one. Ideas are dropped in and they go into the suggestion abyss – never to be seen nor heard of again. […]
20 reasons not to collaborate – you enjoy a silo-driven company
The cartoon below makes me laugh because its one of the biggest reasons enterprises consider social software. We are coming out of a fairly rough downturn in the economy where most industries found themselves having to make tough staffing reductions and that left employees who had to truly fight for their jobs. If you didn’t […]
20 Reasons Not to Collaborate – You are afraid of people voicing ideas (congruent and contrary to corporate *insert dept*)
Ideas – what to do about these pesky things. What if they point out a failure or shortcoming of the company? Not as big of a concern is ideas that would compliment and build on a culture or system that is working great. Control by legal, marketing or communications are usually some of the bigger […]
Paid Collaboration is here
I don’t think that I would consider myself living under a rock. But last week I heard about this little Google site called: prizes.org. A site that Google started that basically hooks ideas and ‘experts’ together – and pays! Say you have a buddy getting married, or you need some help planning a vacation to […]