promoting collaboration. The fifth purpose, is to reflect, influence and help shape culture. Organisational culture is often expressed as ‘it’s the way we do things around here’, though this is a less than satisfying explanation. strong culture may only require a single (delightful? Intranets culture MORE >>

Connecting co-workers via Enterprise Q&A enables people to reach consensus, collaborate on a response, and co-create a workaround. As organizations invest in social collaboration platforms, many of these systems will have, or soon include, an Enterprise Q&A capability. Social Networking & Collaborationtrends. E2.0). . MORE >>

Do we first require an organizational culture adaptation prior to any meaningful Enterprise 2.0 tools need to become so simplistic, easy to use and of course generally available to an organization before a culture can be considered connected, flat and more collaborative? That should change the culture, right? adoption? MORE >>

One of the most powerful tools for moving an organization’s culture toward collaboration and knowledge sharing is a process called Action Learning. Design and implement a collaborative process for long-term strategic vision development and deployment. ? Building a culture of collaboration. For example: ? MORE >>

In the following excerpt from Chapter 3 of Living Networks ( available for download here ), I describe the approaches call center giant Convergys takes to try to align culture and process with its clients. Tags: Business relationships Collaboration These are difficult decisions to make, and even harder to implement well. MORE >>