Back in August I posted “Let’s Stop Talking about ‘Social Business’” where I made the following statement:
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Let's Stop Talking about "Social Business"
Let’s stop talking about “social business” as if it were some sort of change in how organizations behave.
Federal Computer Week recently published my op-ed piece Why best practices won’t fix Federal IT. I’d be very interested in hearing from GovLoop members what they think of it.
Defining and Measuring Enterprise Collaboration
Recently while consulting on a collaboration metrics project for the World Bank Group in Washington D.C. I updated my definition of collaboration:
Getting Real about Project Management, Collaboration, and Communication
I’ve recently learned — and re-learned — some useful lessons while working with clients and teams on projects and large proposals. These include:
McKinney Interviews Cochran about First HP Pocket Scientific Calculator
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the podcast of Phil McKinney’s interview with David Cochran about Cochran’s involvement on the team at Hewlett-Packard (HP) that designed the first pocket scientific calculator. The situation was interesting from the standpoint of innovation management and luck.
In September 2006 I published The Justification of Enterprise Web 2.0 Project Expenditures. It examined differences between the cost justification of current information systems compared with cost justification of older systems. It discussed how some of the rules for calculating and thinking about technology related costs have changed.
Questions of control and responsibility inevitably arise when strategizing about the role of social media and social networking in the enterprise.
When Do "Best Practices" Make Sense?
Matt Elliot’s Always looking for ‘best practices’ stifles innovation makes the case that slavishly adopting another organization’s “best practices” actually stifles innovation.
Am I Asking the Right Question About Technological Literacy?
Maybe the question should be how technologically literate people should manage the jobs they find themselves doing — jobs that may not be ready to take advantage of all the skills and experience technologically literate people bring to them.