The Barriers to Working like a Network in Office 365
It is frustrating to see the potential of technology and not have it realized. The solution is there but, as they say in New England, “you can’t get there from here.” Such is Office 365. Read full...
View ArticleBusiness Relies on the Strength of Networks
Not too long ago it was possible for a company to make long-term detailed plans and then execute those plans over a period of several years. They could — with fairly good accuracy — predict the demand...
View ArticleWhen ‘Work Like a Network’ Won’t Work
Hierarchy has become the bogeyman of the "future of work" movement. Listen to some commentators, and it sounds as if the honest worker in the corporation is being oppressed by power-crazed managers,...
View ArticleFast, Flexible, Innovative: Why Networks Thrive
Vienna, September 1901. A man you’ve probably never heard of, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, was born. A man whose theories are helping to shape the future of how you do work. Ludwig von Bertalanffy, let’s...
View ArticleForget Community –‘Social’ is Now a Commodity
Remember the glory days of Enterprise Social software? When startups were acquired and innovations were exciting? When we all believed that social technology could help us change the way we worked for...
View ArticleCMSWire Tweet Jam: Work Like a Network #SocBizChat
It sounds good in theory: "work like a network."But what does this look like in real life? What changes does this style of work require from companies and are companies (and employees) willing to make...
View ArticleSocial Networks Scale, When Will Social Tools?
I’ve observed a curious arc in the discourse around social networks, especially in the past few years since open (or "consumer") web applications like Facebook and Twitter have gained hundreds of...
View ArticleConnected Enterprises Provide Better Customer Service
Networking your organization — making it more agile, more enabled and more responsive — makes a ton of sense from a practical perspective. From an operational perspective, however, it is much more...
View ArticleDave Gray on Work Like a Network and the Role of Hierarchies
It’s been two years since Dave Gray published "The Connected Company" with Thomas Vander Wal. Since then, the disruptions to the marketplace noted in the book have only accelerated. But companies are...
View Article‘Work Like a Network’ Isn’t Rocket Science, It’s People
Your personal network, your social network(s), your corporate network, your neural network … you can’t swing a cat these days without hitting a network (Note: no cats were harmed in the writing of this...
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