For companies undergoing rapid growth, balancing the impacts of new hires with existing collaborative and cultural models can be a challenge. The business has a strong culture and a flat structure. How does 99designs plan to manage its expansion without compromising collaboration or culture? Collaboration. MORE >>

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? MORE >>

Ephraim Freed at ThoughtFarmer has a piece on What "collaboration" really means. People refer to all social software within a company as “collaboration,” and this causes confusion. Those boundaries might be organizational, or they could be geographic or cultural as well. Photo: "Collaboration with Henry T. Interesting. MORE >>

conference, The End of the Culture 2.0 Nobody pounded the table for cultural change. Nobody talked about transparency or modeling collaborative behavior. software is all about changing the culture of the enterprise. If there are no processes around collaboration, those need to get set up and built with the organization. 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 >>