In my industry talks on Social Media, I mention the challenges presented to organisations by consumer technologies, so-called “shadow IT”, social media and mobile technologies. A new generation of technology users are used to having leading edge, powerful technologies and are not satisfied with the constraints placed by their employers on their technology use, productivity [...]
Archive of posts tagged collaboration
Is “Generation Gmail” Really Putting Businesses at Risk?
24 February 2011, 8:46 pm
Filed under Google, Internet.
Tagged 3G, blog, Blogger, blogging, Cloud Computing, collaboration, data protection, email, facebook, Gmail, google, hosting, information security, intellectual property, Internet, IP, iPhone, IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management, Microsoft Exchange, mobility, netbook, online storage, Posterous, security, Shadow IT, SharePoint, sharing, Social Media, tablet, TCD, Trinity College Dublin, Tumblr, Typepad, Wordpress, Xaas, Yammer
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Why Organisations Don’t Learn From Project Failure
20 October 2010, 11:54 pm
There are two key reasons that organisations don’t learn from project failure: not acknowledging failure and not learning the lessons of failure. In the first of a short series of articles on project failure, John Lawlor explores the reasons why organisations don’t learn from project failure.
Filed under Project Management.
Tagged Ahmadābād, Anticipatory thinking, Australia, Bob Sutton, Boston, Brazil, Chennai, collaboration, culture, Denmark, Denver, failure, France, India, Indiana, Ireland, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Johan Roos, knowledge, learn, learning, Learning organization, LinkedIn, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Maharashtra, Massachusetts, Mexico, Michael Lissack, Mumbai, Netherlands, New Mexico, New York, New York City, Project, project manager, Republic of Ireland, Robert Kegan, Robert Sutton, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Social information processing, Social Media, story telling, success, tacit knowledge, Tamil Nadu, The Knowing-Doing Gap, The Netherlands, truth telling, United Kingdom, United States, Work Matters
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Social Media Revolution? What’s Your View?
9 May 2010, 5:47 pm
This interesting and very cleverly done video had had over 70,000 views since being posted in the past few days on YouTube. It is also generating the usual mix of light and heat in the accompanying comments. Whatever one’s personal views about Social Media, I think it would be foolish to ignore the reality and [...]
Filed under Social Media.
Tagged Cio Connect, collaboration, Communication, data privacy, Media, privacy, sharing, Social Media, TCD, teaching, Trinity College, video, youtube
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Inspiring Talk by Venky Narayanamurti at Science Gallery
25 March 2010, 12:58 am
I went along this evening to a pretty full lecture theatre in Trinity College’s Science Gallery to listen to Venky Narayanamurti of the Harvard Kennedy School speaking on the subject of science, technology and society. He is a man clearly passionate about his topic and spoke with conviction, vigour, animation and not a little humour. [...]
Filed under Technology, Trinity College Dublin.
Tagged Albert Einstein, applied science, Barack Obama, collaboration, crowdsourcing, Haiti, Harvard, HArvard Kennedy School, India, innovate, innovation, Internet, invent, invention, inventor, iTunesU, James Watt, Kenya, Louis Pasteur, mobile phone, Obama, open source, phone, President, Research, Science, Science Gallery, SMS, society, TCD, Technology, Thomas Edison, Trinity College Dublin, UCD, University College Dublin, USA, Ushahidi, Venky Narayanamurti, Washington DC, web, White House, youtube
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Mindtouch Deki makes group collaboration easy
21 August 2008, 11:00 pm
I recently downloaded a free open source software system called Mindtouch Deki from California-based company, Mindtouch. More than just a wiki, Mindtouch Deki is a web-based collaboration tool that enables teams to work together and share files and information over the Internet. I am currently involved in a project involving four organisations in Ireland; one [...]
Filed under Social Media.
Tagged collaboration, deki, mindtouch, open source, wiki
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