For the last seven years we've been writing about intranets, and our focus has relentlessly been on how to make the intranet more valuable for staff and the organisation. Our over-arching statement has always been this: Staff will use the intranet if it's useful. The challenge is to uncover and understand staff needs, ...
Articles tagged: culture
Collaboration anti-culture: can It get any worse?
Michael Sampson has written about cultural barriers to collaboration, giving a real-life example. To quote: "Collaboration" will fail at your firm, because of lack of freedom. Eg, you two are hand-slapped for going to talk to other people at head office (talk!). Collaborative activity doesn't flourish in tightly controlled environments ...
10 DOs and DONTs of organizational change
Ross Dawson has posted 10 do's and dont's for organisational change. To quote: 3. Select and discover pilots Pilots are the instrument of experimentation, of trying new things within safe boundaries. Choose what new things you want to try and how to go about it, so you find out what works ...
No collaboration without communications
Organisations are rushing to jump on board the web 2.0 bandwagon, which seem to offer a collection of affordable tools to collaborate and share knowledge. While many organisations are currently experimenting with social media tools, strong successes are still relatively rare. Consider the following scenario: an organisation introduces collaboration by piloting ...
