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Entries in Collaboration (66)
Will Merging U.S. Science Agencies Increase Innovation?
I read the news report Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed by AP Science Writer Randolph E. Schmid with mixed feelings. The report describes a serious proposal to combine two US government agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Collaboration, Innovation, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D Management
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There's Nothing Wrong with the Social Networking Industry that Some Honest (Cost) Information Won't Fix
Jeremiah Owyang’s LiveBlog: What’s Wrong with the White Label Social Networking Industry?, especially if you read the comments, delivers a good snapshot of the gaps that still exist between product evangelism and the realities of implementing specialized online social networks.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Collaboration, Social Networking, Standards, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis, Social Media, Adoption, Strategy, Social Network Portability, Software, DataPortability
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How To Avoid Common Strategic Planning Mistakes
For the past few months one of the most popular posts on this blog has been A Short Definition of “Strategic Planning.” I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because the term “short definition” is in the title. Why read a “long definition” if a “short definition” is available?
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Social Media, Strategy, Strategic Planning
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How Can Collaboration Systems and Social Media Complement Agile Project Management?
I recently met with Thad Scheer, President of Sphere of Influence, Inc. Thad’s company specializes in agile and lean project management methods. During our meeting Thad and I discussed some of the changes occurring in project management methods and practices.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Social Media, Project Blog Survey, Agile
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How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Innovation, RSS, Cost Analysis, Tagging, Metrics, Email, Adoption, PowerPoint, Knowledge Transfer
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Some Suggestions for Fixing Corporate Email
In my recent post Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email I listed questions management should ask about corporate email to help plan for adoption of more modern collaborative software applications. The idea behind that post was simple:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Email
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Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email
This document discusses some of the questions you can ask about your organization’s current use of email and how improvements can be made. Also discussed is email’s impact on the adoption of new tools more suited to supporting workgroups and collaboration such as blogs, wikis, and groupsites for sharing information about people and projects.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Expertise Management, Innovation, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Email
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Is It Too Late to Reverse the Fragmentation of the Web?
One year ago I published Balkanization of the Web - or Just Better Focus? There I expressed concern that the proliferation of specialized search engines — and the indexing to support them — would lead to a more fragmented web. I thought that gaining the benefits of specialization could ultimately reduce the benefits we experience from the nearly universal access to web based contents that we’ve been taking for granted.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Software Islands, Network Effects, Social Media, Search, Adoption, Twitter, Social Network Portability, Semantic Web, DataPortability, Fragmentation
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Are Collaboration Tools Part of the IT Infrastructure or Part of the Application Portfolio?
I was interviewed yesterday by a Forrester Research staff member about how CIO’s (Chief information Officers) should approach the implementation of collaboration tools (click here for a list of blog posts related to “collaboration”). We talked about the usual adoption issues related to “web 2.0” applications within the enterprise.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis, Strategic Planning, Software
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Project Management, Social Media, and Defining "Community"
As a continuation of our Conversation about Project Management and Social Media, Lee White in his recent post Project Community states the following: The point here is not that Social Media, as discussed in earlier posts, directly drives efficiencies, but that it can create a community of project stakeholders that are passionate about the successful completion of a project.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Project Blog Survey, Definitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, PMandSM
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