Wednesday: October 3, 2007 6:12 AM
What do the following companies have in common: IBM, Levis Strauss, Kodak, Zenith, Firestone, Timex, Nestle, US Steel, Polaroid, and Sears? Answer: they all owned or lead their industries during my generation. Take IBM, many people will say they ...
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Thursday: October 4, 2007 11:19 AM
I am still stuck on the differences between Communication, Coordination, Cooperation and Collaboration. I need an analogy to use to demonstrate what it means when two disparate teams actually collaborate together. Imagine Main Street in some lit...
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Tuesday: October 9, 2007 8:26 PM
One of the topics that really doesn’t get much discussion are the concepts of marketing and branding within the Enterprise 2.0 space. I don’t really want to spend time on dwelling on the basic definitions or utility of this type of effort. I wou...
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Friday: October 12, 2007 8:31 AM
Regardless of your position, role, responsibility, there is one thing that you can be sure of in our environment. You are part of one or more business models within the enterprise. The bottom line is that all of us provide some form of service to ...
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Tuesday: October 23, 2007 6:51 AM
There is axiom that states that if you connect customers then you connect them to your brand. This indicates that if you provide the means by which customers can get together and share information, knowledge, and best practices with each other, t...
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Tuesday: October 30, 2007 6:01 AM
This months, the Harvard Business Review published an excellent article discussing the right conditions where collaboration can flourish. In large organizations, where the workforce is distributed, there are certain elements that need to be in pla...
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