As I’ve shared here before, about a week ago I participated in the Social Now event where I got the opportunity to finally meet face-to-face Stowe Boyd, one of the best thinkers about the future of businesses and work. Stowe did the closing keynote of the event and if you want a summary & tweetable … Continue reading »
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A look at Digital Workplace Trends in 2013
It is an exciting time for digital practitioners and 2013 promises to be a turning point for many organizations. The digital workplace concept is gaining momentum as organizations are beginning to realize that work is fundamentally changing This is one of the opening quotes that can be found in the Digital Workplace Trends Report 2013 … Continue reading »
Social Now: interview with event organizer Ana Neves
No sales pitch, just Social… Now! This could well be the motto of the event my friend Ana Neves is currently organizing, due to take place in the 27th and 28th of June in the lovely city of Oporto, Portugal (I’m honoured to be part of the panel of experts of this event). To understand … Continue reading »
The future of work vision by Podio
There’s ample debate today around the need for a change in the way we work and how the future of work will look like. The reasons for this topic to be increasingly talked of usually come to reasons such as: the tools we currently use fail to really help us get work done in a … Continue reading »
Knowledge (shared) is power
Late March 2011. Flying from Frankfurt to London to attend Dachis’ Social Business Summit. I pick a Harvard Business Review magazine and seat comfortably on the plane. Open page 1 and get this: For those interested in the topics of knowledge management and, mostly recently, Enterprise 2.0 or Social Business (whatever is your favorite lexicon) … Continue reading »
A dream come true: teaching Enterprise 2.0
Mid February 2011: a dream comes true and I find myself standing in the classroom as the teacher. The journey started many months before when I was challenged to give a 1 hour seminar at the local business school on the topic. That experience (I must have passed the test) eventually turned into an invitation … Continue reading »
Collaboration: death by email
It hit me today! I’m working on a personal project and discussions started running in email threads (supported by Dropbox for storing and sharing some files and a couple of interactions on a Facebook Group). I thought of suggesting a collaboration platform but since everyone seemed comfortable with this modus operandi I let it be. … Continue reading »
The end of the work as we know it?
In the last few months I had the privilege of attending three very interesting conferences with top notch speakers. Their talks revolved around topics such as social media, social business, ubiquitous computing, network economy, or the future of the role of IT inside organizations. From the different talks I selected the following quotes because they … Continue reading »
Book review: Collaboration by Morten T. Hansen
Finished reading Morten T. Hansen’s book entitled ”Collaboration: How leaders avoid the traps, create unity, and reap big results“. How I got to this book is a perfect example of the benefits of today’s Web. I first remember seeing a recommendation of this book by Professor Andrew McAfee several months ago. And as time went by, the more … Continue reading »
We are just the same
This week I participated in a brainstorming session on the future role of IT across different business units. The gathering featured mostly IT people and some line-of-business folks and we separated in groups containing elements from both “worlds”. As the session went on, and we all contributed with several ideas, I suddenly realized that the worries and … Continue reading »
