Collaboration
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Linking Communication Collaboration and Talent
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There was a time when if you wanted to collaborate, the only way to do it was either walking over to someone and having a conversation, or perhaps you could call someone’s “secretary” and leave a message. Then we got voice mail. Then we got email. We’ve been trapped in an email world for over…
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Talent Particles in Action
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Until tonight, I’ve never seen a lightning storm from above the clouds. I’m not sure what percentage of lightning strikes actually are visible below the clouds, but this storm over Texas that I’m watching has a few lightning bolts per second all localized in a small area over the course of the last 5 minutes…
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HR Web 2.0 Supply Chain
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In most businesses, if the supply chain stops, everything stops. Ford can’t make cars if they don’t have wheels, hospitals get pretty jammed up if all the CT machines are down, and most organizations wither away if the sales pipeline goes away. You can view almost any portion of any business from a supply chain…
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Innovation, Web 2.0Enterprise Digital Interactions
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I know we don’t need any more buzzwords, but at the same time, HR and corporate organizations really seem to hate calling their internal blog, wiki, networking and collaboration tools “Social” media. There is good reason for this as most organizations are not trying to encourage social behaviors at work, but professional networking, increasing connections,…
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Branding, Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, HR Strategy, HR Technology, Web 2.0Enterprise Web 2.0 and Personal Brands
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I started systematicHR something like 5 years ago as a true weblog – a place where I could record my thoughts as I went through my daily reading and research. More than 5 years after my first blog post that I never thought anyone would read but myself, systematicHR has really become my own personal…
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Going Too Far: Social Media Notifications
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but pretty much every time I receive a notification about farmville or gangster wars on Facebook, I pretty want to shoot the senders. If they are nieces or nephews, they get some allowances for being kids. But when I get literally 5 or 6 notifications in a…
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Lessons Learned From Gaming
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Ok, I’ll admit that I’ve been playing this on-line game. It’s a MMORPG (I can’t believe I remembered that whole thing) and I play a priest in a guild of mages, fighters, archers, etc. What I find entertaining about it is not the game-play, but the collaboration that is necessary to make the game work. …
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The “Other”
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Why can’t we get along with payroll? What makes them so different? It really does not matter when Payroll reports up to HR and when they report up to Finance. There always seems to be some friction. Often we like to think that they are just “different” people. HR people are strategic and nurturing and…
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Immediacy without Details
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I’ll have to be honest – I’m having a really hard time with some of the new technology. I’m supposed to be a technologist and be up on all the latest stuff. But I find myself at odds with some of the theory and philosophy. There seems to be an emerging sense of immediacy and…
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Training Innovation
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I’ve been thinking a lot about whether you can teach people how to be innovators. As North America and EMEA slowly loses production and manufacturing work to countries like India and China, what is left behind is the design and innovation work that is the starting point before production can shift to those other countries. …
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Change Management, Collaboration, Communications, Engagement, Enterprise Solutions, Functional, Governance, HR Service Delivery, HR Strategy
Blending Food Flavors and Cross Functional Collaboration
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I usually write about cycling here, but I generally make it no secret that I’m a wannabe foodie. ((My other blog is a food blog)) Great food is sometimes about simplicity, and other times it’s about depth and flavor combinations. I was recently at Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles (( Osteria Mozza is a partnership…
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David Zinger 3 Words Follow-up
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3 Words Follow-up to yesterday’s post written by David Zinger. I am so pleased you took so much away from 3 little words. It makes me feel stronger than the 3 little pigs and I know some wolf can blow my 3 word structure down. The words are all important to me and my work.…
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6 Degrees: The Data Hub
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“The Power of Six Degrees” recently re-ran on the Science Channel here in the U.S. The basic premise of 6 degrees was that you can connect yourself to any other person in the world, not matter how remote, with only 6 steps. What the show revealed was that in choosing that 6 step path, it…
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Symphony: Scope of Sight
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From where the conductor stands, she sees and hears everything. This is the perfect place from which to direct and convey small changes in vision. The conductor is perfectly situated so that everyone can see her, and she can alternatively see everyone back. If the conductor was anywhere else, she might hear one section louder…
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Collaborative Teams
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04-20 I’ll admit that as much as I talk about web 2.0 and collaboration networks, collaboration is simply not a set of tools. Collaboration can be made more efficient with tools and tools can enable certain types of collaboration, but in the end, I think collaboration is about culture and governance. In my opinion, collaboration…
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Symphony: Individual Performers
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04-15 In a symphony, there are no individual performers. There can’t be. The whole point of a symphony is individual elements coming together to form a single cohesive vision of piece of music. Violins all coordinate to execute in perfect synchronicity and unison, blending to create a single voice in which none of them stand…
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Social Media, Gen Y and the Workplace
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Michael Specht linked over to some survey results presented by Microsoft and Insurity. There were a couple of interesting findings and in my opinion they certainly do point to our need to change how the workplace operates, not only for Gen Y, but also for the sake of business growth and overall collaboration. To simply…
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Enterprise 2.0 Diagram
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I ran across this quite interesting and comprehensive e2.0 diagram and thought I’d share. I like how it’s organized with Actors, Technologies and Methods as part of the engine behind e2.0, but as usual I have a few comments. I probably would have phrased the Business Drivers differently – perhaps removing it as one of…