Archive for the 'On collaboration' Category

Recently there was a case in Norway (the first in our country that I know) where profiled Norwegian blogger Vampus tweeted “cleaned out my desk and ready for new challenges”. She was just internally reorganized in her company, and most certainly did not quit – at least not by communicating to her boss via Twitter.
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I am referring to Swedish SaaS Company Projectplace International AB, which proves the Enterprise SaaS model absolutely viable. I was flying home from Tromsø the other day and read an 8 page insert to SAS inflight magazine Scanorana (a nice advertising media by the way).
More than 300 000 projects are currently run on projectplace. I [...]


Steria Norway is testing collaboration with Yammer – so far we are satisfied and a need is uncovered. It is a great example of enterprise software as a service solution featuring what seems to be good enough enterprise security by reducing visibility by others to only those with same mail domain.
Other than that it is [...]


Gartner and IBM says Cloud computing will skyrocket in 2009. Microsoft is more reluctant but coming along as well. Several news sites report that 2009 will be the year of enterprise cloud computing, but others are unable to spot the next salesforce.com, requesting it to come out of the cave. Why? I believe that security [...]


Ok, I admit, I have forgotten all about SecondLife, Linden Dollars and avatars in my recent research on social media.
In a class called collaboration at Uni three years ago I visited another 3D-world, and today (after being ticked off by a colleague) i joined SecondLife and now officially have an avatar called TigerOfNorway Riddler (why [...]


Today I read the latest Norwegian issue of Computerworld (nr 5 2009, pg 6), and to my great pleasure I found an article from our Senior Gartner columnist about the “war” between the IT Organization wanting to standardize and the vast amount of different quick win business applications that the business side want to use [...]


Building on my post yesterday, defining a collaborative culture, a colleague notified me of the Gartner Quadrant from 2007 that already has made the connection between collaboration and social software. since someone already put it out, here it is again:
However this quadrant is now getting old, and it has also recieved some critics, for the fact that it does [...]


I have earlier blogged on social media and changing the culture. As social media is often about new forms of online collaboration, I now add collaboration (not as in collaborationism, but as in collaboration at work) as such to that mix. Every project manager ought to know that to create a culture for collaboration is [...]