I’m seeing more and more signals driving this trend which has only been around a short while. Gartner describes citizen development thus. Its precursor was the consumerisation of IT. One […]
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Half life of information and necessary rate of learning
I’ve just recently completed a series of certifications and learning modules for work. This is in addition to the training we have to do every year. It’s a lot of learning and pretty challenging alongside your day job.
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Ways auto industry can transform with As a Service and employee experience
The automotive industry is scrambling to transform itself in various areas: green (move to electric); smart (move to connected), etc. Much is being driven by nimble startups like Tesla, unencumbered […]
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Workplace collaboration on fire but distribution uneven
Some interesting articles and research have just been published about this exploding market. This is where it started for me: Mapping Workplace Collaboration Startups.
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Microsoft Teams Live Events and the new channels of work
I’ve just come off a week of successfully helping a customer run a Microsoft Teams Live Event for an annual event they run. The nature of the event they ran […]
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Startup lessons for the workplace
I discovered this really awesome resource on the BBC – articles and exposes on work life. In it I came across this intriguing concept of Adaptability Quotient in an article: Is ‘AQ’ more important than intelligence?
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Tech Intensity and the Adaptive Organisation
Tech Intensity is not my phrase or concept, it comes from the CEO of the company I work for, Microsoft – Satya Nadella first wrote about it here earlier this year: The necessity of tech intensity in today’s digital world.
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Effective Meetings and Collaboration at work and Microsoft Teams
I’m often frustrated with how meetings are misused and ineffective at work. I know I’m not alone 😬
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Favourite demos from Microsoft Ready and Inspire 2019
Ready is an annual employee focused event run by Microsoft and Inspire is partner focused. We generally run them in July and present some really cool demos and content and […]
Read moreThought Rocket: State of Enterprise Collaboration
As the title of this post suggests, this is a very quick thought on the state of enterprise collaboration, mostly captured in the form of a DanelDoodle – the one […]
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The changing influence of culture and technology at work and the battle for the mind
I work in a field that frequently deals with changing the culture of work through managed change engagements. They are most often aligned to new technology adoption or digital transformation […]
Read moreIf music be the food of work play on
I’ve produced some of my best creative work with the right music. It’s often accompanied by coffee, in a coffee shop. But the crucial ingredient is music. Here is a […]
Read moreBeyond Technology Adoption – Business Scenarios with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is such an incredible work productivity tool. It doesn’t just bring work from other applications into the conversation but the whole tool itself. That plus the ability it offers to structure activities into logical workflows provides perfect context for bringing business scenarios to life.
Business scenarios are an important mechanism in beyond adoption to drive business value.
Check out a brief intro and demo I’m using with customers into the use of Teams in the context of an example business scenario (marketing), focusing on getting things done and driving value.
Meaning and models as future work motivators
We don’t all have the luxury to question why we are working and to what end. Many are in dead end, soul sapping or even worse, life endangering jobs. But […]
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Leading the right behaviours through metrics and new work models
Metrics drive behaviour. Organisations also know that they can better manage, what they can measure. So if you want to change behaviours, look at the metrics you are using and […]
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