March 3rd, 2010 by Janus Boye
No Comments| collaboration, communication, yammer
Microblogging service Yammer was introduced in 2008 and today claims that over 60,000 businesses use it worldwide. Despite the rapid uptake in adoption, most organisations we interviewed for this summary reported mixed experiences and some internal resistance.
What justifies yet another internal communication tool alongside existing tools such as e-mail, intranets, wikis, SharePoint and instant messaging? …
November 26th, 2009 by Dorthe Raakjær Jespersen
No Comments| Aarhus 2009 Conference, collaboration, conference, google apps, intranet
Congratulations to Neil Morgan, global intranet and web manager, from the WWF for being voted Thursday’s best speaker at the recent J. Boye Aarhus 2009 conference.
Neil’s presentation discussed how the WWF are using Google Apps for collaboration. Collaborating using Google Apps has pretty much become fundamental in the organisation. Everyone just “get itâ€.
The success the …
April 8th, 2009 by Janus Boye
3 Comments| collaboration, hbr, intranet
Collaboration remains a hot topic and is almost universally viewed as a good thing. A Harvard Business Review article on When Internal Collaboration Is Bad for Your Company by Morten T. Hansen from the April 2009 Edition challenges conventional wisdom by taking a closer look at the false assumption that the more employees collaborate, the …
February 22nd, 2009 by Sara Redin
3 Comments| collaboration, communication, intranet
If questions such as “Why do you need an intranet” stops you cold, maybe you should find a good mantra that simply describes the purpose of the tool so that any stakeholder can understand it. A killer mantra I recently picked up in a presentation by Mette Aarup of the pharmaceutical company Nycomed describes the …