'Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization is an excellent new book by Dan Pontefract   It “arms you with powerful tools for overcoming resistance to change and creating a culture of collaboration, engagement, and employee empowerment.”   He is the Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS (www.telus.com).

Students in collaborative tasks look for resources that make it easy to share documents. '- Alzougool, B. et al. 2013) "Finding Their Way around: International Students’ Use of Information Sources." Journal of Advanced Management Science , 1 (1), 43-49 doi: 10.12720/joams.1.1.43-49 (you have to register, but it is free. link] - He, D. et al.(2012)

Why is HR late for social collaboration? They concerns about social collaboration are people wasting their time, irresponsible behaviour by people, and regulatory and compliance issues. 'Interesting series of posts from Jane McConnell about the perspective of HR on the digital workplace (aka intranets, enterprise social software, etc).

Adding social (collaboration & cooperation) capabilities to existing productivity tools is a better approach than using a dedicated social platform, Valyanov suggests. If so, then Microsoft’s strategy with Office365, focused on tools first and collaboration second, may be on the right track. CMS Wire. ” - ZDNet.

Organisations are thinking more broadly about the role of technology in helping staff to do their jobs, including how collaboration and content intersects. 'There is so much great stuff happening in the intranet space at the moment. Mobile is shaking everything up, and new tools are shining a light on business processes.

Also look out for the ''KM Conversations'' tables, where you will be able to find people interested in talking about social media, technology, content, collaboration, storytelling and Creating ROI. 'Last year I attended Ark Group''s KM Australia in Sydney as part of a debate on capturing tacit knowledge using social technologies.

We will then work collaboratively on weaving these threads together into a narrative that makes sense. 'For the past 18 months, Jane Hart has been hosting the Social Learning Centre , offering a wide variety of resources, coaching, and workshops. have run several workshops as well, some alone, and others jointly with Jane. Online Communities.

If you take an exception into the social space, collaboration can be more efficient. 'I have written about NewsGator on a number of occasions (see for example:  NewsGator Enhances its Social Sites 2010 Platform for SharePoint ). Now it is moving beyond SharePoint to reach other work processes. Here is a sample Social Sites interface.

Drumroll please… The myths to be busted are: Social Collaboration replaces traditional intranets. 'A few weeks ago we asked the intranet community to vote for your favourite intranet myths, which we’ll duly bust as part of the program at Intranets2013. Everything must be 3 clicks or less from the homepage.

Hyper-connected work environments require people with better sense-making, collaboration, and cooperation skills. Collaborative Work. 'The ability to learn is the only lasting competitive advantage for any organization. Social learning plays a significant role in this. Social Learning. Connected Leadership. Adapting to perpetual Beta.

Yet this is often the sales tactics in my industry: five bucks a month per employee and all or most of those pesky problems with productivity and barriers to collaboration magically go away. 'Friday’s Finds: “first come the innovators, then the imitators, then the idiots … you can set your watch to it.” “Sad.

All of that came since then, and the combination of these tools of connectivity and creativity has created a global education, commercial, communication and innovation platform on which more people can start stuff, collaborate on stuff, learn stuff, make stuff (and destroy stuff) with more other people than ever before. My emphasis) .

 They also closely collaborate with their partner  Contegix  for turnkey hosted and integrated deployments for their customers. Making Enterprise Collaboration Work. It is an “ongoing resource and viewpoint from AppFusions on the value of connecting business and engineering systems.”. Twenty Helpful git Resources.

It looks like they are going to do a series on "the collaborative manager," and they have started out with Chapter 1 on the topic on how to encourage more collaboration in meetings. . As with many people who observe the idea of "collaboration," they complain that the term is somewhat meaningless on its own. Novel, huh?

USA academic libraries Students Collaboration academic sector Information Literacy 'Volume 41 issue 2 (2013) of Reference Services Review (priced publication) has the theme of The Role of the Library in Campus-Wide Recruitment Efforts. Hubbard, Amber T. I''ve never seen one that close before, it was alarmingly large.

'I don''t think I have blogged this resource from JISC : A guide to open educational resources. think what is mainly new is structuring the content into a guide like this. Key contenet areas are: - What are open educational resources? resources Pedagogy OERs

key feature of this design is to tightly integrate Infor''s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Human Capital Management (HCM), and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions into a dashboard and activity stream - in other words, what Alan Lepofsky calls " purposeful collaboration ".

Google Apps for messaging, productivity and collaboration. She quotes Forrester analyst Tim Sheedy, who comments: "IT isn''t the be all and end all," Sheedy said. It can be a differentiator for those organisations that choose it to be a differentiator, like the Commonwealth Bank.". iPads for mobility (for store managers).

First, I want to elaborate a bit on collaboration and cooperation. Two types of behaviours are necessary in the networked workplace: collaboration and cooperation. Cooperation differs from collaboration in that it is sharing freely without any expectation of reciprocation or reward. Collaboration is just getting things done.

Sam Marshall (UK) is the owner of ClearBox Consulting and has specialised in intranets, collaboration and the digital workplace for over 15 years. 'Australia is a long flight from the rest of the world, and this makes it harder for local teams to keep up on what’s happening in the broader intranet community. Michal Pisarek (Canada).

However the breadth of Hub Sydney’s scope and intent, combined with its focus on collaboration and distributed value creation, makes it a very welcome addition to Sydney’s startup and independent worker spaces. Australia Collaboration Crowdsourcing Entrepreneurship Future of work Social trends Uncategorized

The sector of conversations reflects the social nature of knowledge work (Brown & Duguid, 1996; Lave & Wenger, 1991) and incorporates the spectrum from passively followed conversations to collaboration with others focused on performing specific tasks. 'PKM is much more than processing information. Passion at Work, page 11].

ended up using Edmodo, but not really catching on to mendeley (nor did my students as it was a bit limited in collaborative work, we found). snapchat, google +) and/or businesses might be using for collaborative work or communication. 'Each summer, I choose one or two new emerging technologies to learn. So I need your help.

” Get collaborative, cooperative & connected. If nobody sees it, then it would be best to let the training department drift into obscurity so that others can take the lead in promoting cooperation, collaboration and knowledge sharing. 'Donald Taylor asks where your learning & development (training) department resides.

'I was too busy at the end of last week to follow much of the ACRL conference live, but I did pick up some links etc. from the Twitter feed when I did dip in. will give some of these over the next day or two. Firstly, Maria Accardi delivered a session on feminist pedagogy. 2013) Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction. Library juicy press.

Now Moxie’s collaboration capabilities can be engaged to handle escalations. 'In November, Moxie and Microsoft   announced  a partnership to pursue a joint go-to-market strategy to offer Spaces by Moxie within MSFT Dynamics CRM. See –  Moxie Integrates with Microsoft Dynamics CRM ).  

Collaboration skills can help workers to share knowledge so that people work and learn cooperatively in teams, communities of practice, and social networks. Probably the biggest change we are seeing is that the content delivery model is being replaced by more social and collaborative frameworks. It is also difficult to transfer.

Collaboration has become increasingly frictionless, meaning increasingly costless. ' . One aspect of career resilience it''s important for us to keep in mind is the need to have multiple options. This is particularly true when it comes to our finances, where we need to be far more entrepreneurial than we''ve been in the past. Resilience

So, for large organizations, not only will no single technology platform meet all your knowledge-sharing, collaboration and cooperation needs, but no single approach will either. 'Knowledge-sharing practices are highly contextual. have seen this with clients in multiple locations, across national borders. Leadership Work

Through application integration, Bloomfire wants to be the “primary location to access relevant content, and the primary communication channel for noticing, collaborating, deciding and acting on information and knowledge.”. 'Bloomfire. This need has been made more acute with the advent of easy-to-use knowledge tools on the consumer Web.

Collaboration Project Management 'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

Social media and collaboration tools will transform the intranet into a platform that will engage with staff and improve knowledge management. 'We live in interesting times. As part of our work at Step Two, we provide ongoing advice and mentoring for intranet teams around the globe. Many projects have stalled as a result. Don’t wait!

The presentations are listed by theme: Active learning and creative pedagogical approaches; IL and the digital future; Collaboration and partnerships; Transliteracy; IL and employability; Future-proofing the IL practitioner. 'Impressively, the presentations from the #lilac13 conference (held at the end of March) are up online. link].

These participating host companies will share their business vision, outline their founding principles and values, and discuss what it means to be part of NY’s collaborative ecosystem. All participating companies share a commitment to open communication and open collaboration that is the hallmark of modern, innovative businesses.

Do that with clear and collaborative communication. 'No, really. There''s a business lesson here. Blinds.com CEO Jay Steinfeld reflects on a recent trip to Thailand. Ever find your leadership skills tested by something bigger than you? couple of weeks ago I rode elephants on my honeymoon in Thailand. CRUNCH! Invest heavily in training.

This idea of looking at how to build relationships and collaborate with others as being key to resilience is something I talked about in my recent post on limiting beliefs  and Sheri''s experience reinforced its importance to me. . This to me is more evidence that we need to work with these patterns on a regular basis. . Related articles.

Business relationships Collaboration design Enterprise 2.0 'The New York Times has an interesting article titled Engineering Serendipity which looks at the some of the ways companies are trying to create felicitous and unexpected connections between their staff. After introducing what Yahoo! The University of Chicago sociologist Ronald S.

This makes leaders responsible for developing an open, collaborative culture, and suggests that inspiring these attitudes toward knowledge management will have positive individual and organizational consequences. complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. – John Gall.

'SharePoint is a sophisticated platform that supports a whole range of functionality, although it is perhaps best thought of as a Web content management system or document collaboration platform. This doesn''t mean it is always the best platform out of the box for specific contexts or use cases. Meanwhile, Yammer and Skype also use Wordpress.

Here are some presentations from the LILAC conference last week (on the right is a view of the area where they served lunch etc.) - from sessions I didn't attend but which look interesting! key=0AkGq4A6nr7oQdGxXd2Q5V21qT1pNeWRGRlRPNHVtUmc#gid=36. lilac13 librarians Further education academic sector Information Literacy

Forrester research report -  The Total Economic Impact Of Microsoft Office 365 Midsize Customers – describes these collaboration needs of mid-size companies: “Everyone being able to work in a collaborative environment is essential. * This post is sponsored by Microsoft Office 365 *. We can work smarter and fewer hours.”.

Communication, for both collaboration and cooperation, is key. In thinking about the coherent organization , a couple of realizations occurred to me. One is about how those layers actually are replicated at different levels. The other is how those levels need to be aligned in the organization to the overall vision. itashare. social strategy

Option 3: Turn the critic into the collaborator. When was the last time you read your resume? Go ahead and give it a look. Read your last job description. It’s impressive, right? Chances are, you emphasize your accomplishments, your ability to create stunning deliverables, and your extensive knowledge of the user experience practice.

There is a new paper from the (US) Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment. will probably return to this (after I have finished catching up with LILAC - I still have a couple of posts to do).

and collaboration solution that helps both co-located and distributed teams work together in real time. Adopting the features of the "social graph" to the project collaboration space, Wrike allows users to bring together as many projects as they need and work on them in a scalable environment.  

As social learning, collaboration, and even complexity become mainstream concepts, the array of products and services around them are becoming commoditized. Five years ago I noted that big consultancies were jumping on the Web 2.0 For example, what exactly is “Advanced” Web 2.0 technology ? Blogs with lots of colourful widgets? complexity

Collaborating for deep, critical information behaviour from Sheila Webber. Yesterday I gave a presentation at the LILAC conference #lilac13 in Manchester with some discoveries from the Deep Critical Information Behaviour project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Encouraging cooperation , along with workplace collaboration, ensures more open knowledge sharing. Seth Godin makes a very good point about trusting the select few to curate information, whether they be leaders, managers, certified professionals, researchers, or any other group of experts. Seth Godin explains it with this graphic.

Here at the LILAC conference #lilac13 in Manchester, UK, I'm afraid I missed the start of International Students: a collaborative approach to teaching IL skills from Amanda Southam and Julie Moody as I was talking to Brian Kelly after his talk. They want better visibility of the IL materials e.g. producing a LibGuide.

The project’s aim was to transform a piecemeal array of school visits to our libraries into a consistent service delivered by librarians in collaboration with local schools, university faculties, and the Widening Participation Office." They already had visits to the library from schools, but it was very ad hoc and piecemeal.

However, Ovum did take a shot at what they see as a hole in Microsoft’s unified communication and collaboration strategy: "Perhaps Microsoft should glance over its shoulder and take a look at IBM as it releases Notes and Domino 9 Social Edition and integrates Microsoft Exchange with its own business social software platform, IBM Connections.

Jane perceives this intranet to be separate from both the structured project collaboration and social collaboration systems that may also exist. Of course this data has to be considered in context: Are these same organisations already satisfied with their traditional intranet and structured project collaboration tools?

which included User generated content, networking, voting, tools, sharing, tagging and collaborating. Here at the LILAC conference in Manchester, the first keynote was Steve Wheeler, on Learning 2.0: Digital pedagogy. Steve's blog is Learning with 'e's (I think there may be a pun going on there) and his Slideshare is here. lilac13 web 2.0

But I looked forward to seeing what collaboration would look like as a true tenure-track faculty member. I was surprised when I read a couple of weeks ago that the University of Virginia was taking faculty status away from its librarians. It appears from reports that many of those in the library with faculty status are up in arms about it.

John also covered their latest news, the collaboration with Terracotta to provide better support for the use of Big Data using the Terracotta BigMemory , capability. spoke with John Crupi, their CTO, and Sandra Hamorsky, Director, Product Marketing about their latest moves. Presto 3.5, In this case it was Hurricane Sandy. With Presto 3.5,

An effective suite of enterprise social tools can help organizations share knowledge, collaborate, and cooperate – connecting the work being done with the identification of new opportunities and ideas. It takes a networked organization, staffed by people with networked mindsets, to thrive in a networked economy. complexity PKM Work

It is an open source, enterprise-class, social collaboration platform. First, eXo want sot make social collaboration a utility so IT can easily embrace all collaboration within a single platform.   Recently I spoke with Patrice, Lamarque, VP of Products, to catch up on their latest moves. We started with eXo 4.0.

Collaboration Future of education Future of work Keynote speaker Social trends UncategorizedThis morning we completed the five-city Tomorrow-Ready CIO event series , run by CIO magazine and sponsored by IBM. My keynote across the five locations was on the Future of the CIO, using a Future of the CIO framework I recently created.

Ahold is an international grocery chain based in the Netherlands, that in 2011 launched a new intranet (a "Distributed new and content platform with real time collaboration") using Google Apps - the slides are available to download (PDF). Gmail, Calendar, etc). Hat tip Samuel

But to tackle complex scenarios like multi-agency collaboration, we need simply but scalable solutions. When I joined Ripple Effect Group in 2009 (then known as Headshift), one of the company's case studies that immediately resonated with me was Patient Opinion. What does it do?

Work in the network era needs to be both  cooperative and collaborative , meaning that organizations have to support both types of activities. But in this emerging network era, cooperative innovation trumps collaborative innovation , writes Stowe Boyd. have added in the four CMM stages to the image below. Both are required.

She writes that, “resistance to social collaboration comes from perceptions about lack of business value and waste of time.” As I wrote in the first part of this series, I recently received a review copy of Digital Workplace Trends 2013 by Jane McConnell. My last post begin to look at some of the details in the report. post by Andy McAfee.

Autodesk, academia and coming-of-age firms like Stratsys and Organovo are all collaborating on an incredible new dimension on creation with programable materials

Enterprise social networks and software are a far better way of encouraging collaboration and releasing valuable information from individual inboxes.'". Back in 2011 lots of people were skeptical about Atos CEO, Thierry Breton, and his war on email. Sorry, the link above might get paywalled when you click on it). Hat tip Paul Wallbank

The report is organized into eight sections: transformation, mobile, social collaboration, process, experience, investment, change, and finding your direction. Collaboration tools can turn Taylorism. Jane found a wide range of social collaborative capabilities in place, with a high increase in interest in the past 12 months. 

IBM Connections 4.5 - social networking and collaboration platform Luis Benitez's slides from IBM Connect 2013 with more detail about Connections 4.5 have now been published: ID301 - What’s Coming in IBM Connections from Luis Benitez. IBM Connections Content Manager 4.5 - social + content.

Knowing what people are working on will help people to collaborate, to cross-pollinate across these ideas. As I’ve mentioned before, Lisa Hinchliffe and I presented on and authored a paper for the Library Assessment Conference in October. There’s a shared vision. As most of us know, this is rarely the case in most organizations.

In fact, I’d suggest that the best activities are meaningful, challenging, and collaborative. I was part of a meeting about online learning for an institution, and something became clear to me. We were discussing MOOCs (naturally, isn’t everyone?), and the opportunities for delivering quality learning online. There’s more.

They include managed information and processes, structured collaboration, social collaboration and a mobile dimension. An even smaller number, 20%, have provided mobile access to work tools for collaborative, HR and other task-related needs. I recently received a review copy of Digital Workplace Trends 2013 by Jane McConnell.

Group Collaboration and Intranet Manager. I’ve just closed the application process to join the Advisory Panel for my upcoming book. I’m now working through the list, whittling 50+ entries down to the chosen 30. More on this to come… In the meantime, one thing that was interesting was the diversity of job titles. IT Manager.

And that comes from a creative and collaborative workforce.  This will be about equipping and people to work together on shared goals: sharing , commenting, contributing, collaborating, and more.  The other meme from the retreat event  last weekend was the notion of leadership for complexity.  the Coherent Organization ). itashare.

In the past, it was a good idea to avoid the word 'workflow' in discussions about enterprise social computing because people immediately jumped to thinking about highly structured and automated workflows that you might find in a system of record or a collaboration platform, like SharePoint or Dominio/Lotus Note.

Her message sent a shockwave through the digital workplace and technology community: To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side. It’s old news that Yahoo!’s That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices. offices. Yahoo!

At workgroup level, individuals will be better able to collaborate if their (prior) work is detailed. So I was away for the weekend at a retreat with like-minded souls, Up to All of Us , thinking deeply about the issues that concern us. walked away with some new and renewed friendships, relaxed, and with a few new thoughts.

Collaboration. In these loose networks, cooperation (sharing freely without any quid pro quo ) is the order of the day, not collaboration (working together toward a common objective). Working Together. Complexity (Cynefin). Social (TIMN). Practices. Group Work. Chaotic. Tribal. Novel. Action. Simple. Tribal + Institutional. Complex.

For example, they dropped wikis as they are used more as a collaboration tool than a communications/ engagement tool and divided the social networking category into specific tools and platforms.  This time it was co-authored by Ava M. Lescault who is also at the center as Senior Research Associate and Associate Director.   

Opportunity to collaborate and share ideas with other Panel members. It’s been an open secret that I’m working on our next book, which has a working title of “What every intranet should do” This will be an exploration of everything that intranet can (and should) do to help staff and the wider organisation. commitments.

USA academic libraries Pedagogy assessment Collaboration academic sector Information LiteracyVolume 41 issue 1 (2013) of Reference Services Review (priced publication) has papers from LOEX-of-the-West and includes: - A systematic approach to performative and authentic assessment by Brandy Whitlock, Julie Nanavati (pp. Snyder (pp.

During each call Jim moderates a loosely structured conversation that engages all the participants in a collaborative exchange of ideas and experiences. 11 AM Pacific Standard Time. March 21, 2012. Free, but advance registration is required. And the one after that will be on April 18 , 2013, at 9 AM PDT. from Jessica Lipnack). link]. Tweet.

When: Thursday, March 7, at Noon Pacific Standard Time. Register : https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/476196598. Please join me and my colleague, Pi Wen Looi of Novacrea Research , for a lunch-and-learn session to learn about “Leveraging Mobile Work to Engage Your Employees.” We planned to conduct this webinar well before Marissa Mayer of Yahoo!

Soft skills, like collaboration and cooperation, are now more important than traditional hard skills. While cooperation is not the same as collaboration, they are complementary. Collaboration requires a common goal, while cooperation is sharing without any specific objectives. Collaborating on specific tasks is not enough.

Ed Brill on IBM, Collaboration, and More. Over the past few weeks I have posted a series of case studies from people I interviewed in 2005 about their blogging efforts. Now as we move to 2013, I found it interesting to look back at the early days of business blogging. only included cases from people who are still blogging now.  

In order for Yahoo to have a culture of collaboration employees need to be face-to-face with each other to talk about the critical issues they collectively find themselves facing. Marissa is right! Virtual is here to stay. Neither of those activities is worth the cost in time or travel. The Oscillation Principle. the complexity of the issues.

collaboration area that supports knowledge exchange and innovation to reduce replication of effort and share corporate knowledge across teams, and in the process, erode those persistent silo boundaries. For many intranet teams, their intranet progresses forward on the basis of incremental improvement, as it should. vision is not a strategy.

The call for papers for the Creating Knowledge VII conference ( Win-win ways: Educational enhancement through collaborative partnership between students, academics, and librarians ) has been extended to 17 March. The conference takes place in Lund, Sweden, 14-16 August 2013. cfp events

And even for collaborative group work, sharing a tablet is better than hovering around a laptop. Donald Clark (the UK one) generally writes great posts: insightful and irreverent, and consequently fun. like that he is willing to counter the prevailing wisdom with good research. hope to someday meet him. mobile strategy

Much of my professional focus is about learning at work, and improving how people collaborate, cooperate and innovate in internet time. Learning may be the work in the network age, but that does not mean that learning will get you the work. knowledge era is a fine thing, it sounds great … for a minority of people. They see the numbers.

It provides tools to help families and those who support them, such as estate planners, lawyers and accountants work on family issues in a collaborative manner. This is another in a series of case studies from people I interviewed in 2005 about their blogging efforts. will only include cases from people who are still blogging now.  

For example: intranet plus collaboration. Intranets are changing. With new technology and ways of working, intranets in many organisations are becoming much more than they’ve ever been before. intranet plus social. intranet plus document management. intranet plus business process automation. What are you seeing?

Collaboration Isn’t Working: What We Have Here is a Chasm writes Deb Lavoy in CMS Wire. Why do we not yet have 100 words for different kinds of collaboration and teams, as expert in it as we think Eskimos are about snow? What Collaboration is only part of the solution to building social or open businesses.

The connected workplace requires  collaboration as well as cooperation. Both Both collaborative behaviours (working together for a common goal) and cooperative behaviours (sharing freely without any  quid pro quo ) are needed, but most organizations focus their efforts on shorter term collaboration. 21C_Leader

Traditional organizational logic suggests that most employees of big corporations should primarily only talk to other people at their organization to do their work and should only engage with "competitors" when a deal is being brokered or there is a particular need for cross-sector collaboration.

Yesterday I did a deep dive into the user experience of three different intranet and collaboration platforms: SharePoint 2013, Jive and Confluence. SharePoint 2013 in particular has a strong web-publishing orientation and this is apparent in the user experience in some aspects of its collaboration capabilities.

When evaluating SharePoint 2013 specifically as a collaboration platform, this question is often top of mind. Is utility more important than usability? The Metro user interface in SharePoint 2013 is a refreshing update to this mature platform, but usability goes deeper than just the front-end theme. And it makes a big difference….

Also, training departments must be ready to adapt to knowledge artisans by allowing them to  collaborate and connect with their external online networks. Are knowledge workers the new artisans of the network era? If so, can you call yourself a knowledge worker if you are not allowed to choose your own tools?

Sugar CRM links to IBM Connections to use its capabilities to help with collaboration around sales. Also cooperation is enhanced through collaborative gamers. This is another in a series of my notes on IBM Connect 2013. Here are my notes from 2011 and 2012. Nigel said there will be five demos from IBM partners. having to talk to IBM.

These notes cover the Monday Press Session: Reinventing the Inbox with Ed Brill, Director, Social Business & Collaboration, IBM.  Here is that interview: Blog Cases from 2005: Ed Brill on IBM, Collaboration, and More. Ed runs product management for messaging, collaboration, and unification. and IBM docs.  

One aspect of the research, however, reinforced for me the power of collaboration in the design process. My takeaway from all this: try to practice a collaborative approach whenever possible to inform your work and allow yourself to see six sides of the box. A quote that I stumbled on during grad school stuck with me. One,” I said.

truly believe that Jessica knows more about virtual teams and distributed collaboration than anyone on the planet. The next "Talking About Tomorrow" open mike conversation will be on Thursday, February 14, at 9 AM Pacific time. Participation is free but advance registration is required. Share this! Tweet.

It will be more collaborative. There are two things we know for sure about the future of work: It will be more distributed and mobile; and. Those two trends create some interesting and important tensions; they are not incompatible, but they do point in different directions. flexible work programs (e.g., supporting distributed teams. Tweet.