Archives for Collaboration and social

Collaboration: questions to ask

By: James Robertson Posted: August 30, 2009

A central team needs to ask many questions to understand business unit and team collaboration needs.

Mitigating enterprise collaboration risks

By: James Robertson Posted: August 30, 2009

There are many perceived and actual risks when collaboration tools are introduced within organisations. This table lists some of the key risks, and outlines options for mitigating or eliminating them. …

Mitigating enterprise collaboration risks

By: James Robertson Posted: August 30, 2009

There are many perceived and actual risks relating to enterprise collaboration, and there are many ways of mitigating them.

Cutting through the hype of social media

By: James Robertson Posted: July 22, 2009

When discussing intranets and related enterprise-level software, it’s easy to get caught up in the technology. There are many features and components, so much whizz-bang functionality. It can be difficult …

When starting intranet-based online discussions in an organisation, whether they are forums, blogs, comments on articles, or internal Twitter-style tools, how should you go about moderating them and maintaining their …

No collaboration without communications

By: James Robertson Posted: March 23, 2009

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 …

No collaboration without communications

By: Amanda Broomhall Posted: March 23, 2009

Getting the fundamentals of good communication right is a prerequisite for collaboration initiatives.

We need to find the business value in collaboration

By: James Robertson Posted: March 17, 2009

Managing collaboration takes a lot of work. Rolling out the tools is easy, whether it’s team spaces, wikis or blogs. To ensure that they are successful is another matter. If …

Untangling collaboration spaces

By: James Robertson Posted: February 6, 2009

An all-too-common scenario: Collaboration spaces, such as wikis or SharePoint team areas, have multiplied across the organisation. Now numbering in the thousands, some are hugely successful but many are not. …

Three tiers of collaboration

By: James Robertson Posted: November 18, 2008

There are many elements of collaboration, and we often encounter the “blind men and the elephant problem”. We’re all talking about collaboration, but we’re actually discussing different parts of the …