February 2012
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The social intranet is not so social yet
The good news: most organizations have social media on their intranet. The truth: very few organizations, about 9%, have a true social intranet.
According to the Social Intranet Study of 1,401 participants in organizations of all sizes (conducted by Prescient Digital Media and IABC), intranets are becoming more social, but there’s a fair bit of work to still be done.
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Poster presentation at Org Science Winter...
Amir Sasson and I - Lene Pettersen - submitted an abstract ‘One size does not fit all: Social Business Software, Strategy and Organization in Multinational Knowledge Intensive Firms’ for this years Org Science winter conference ‘Formal Organizations Meet Social Networking’. We were invited to present a poster;
Since we belive in taking our own medicine, we launch our...
January 2012
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Hvordan lykkes med Enterprise 2.0?
På tirsdag holdt jeg et innlegg på NETworked POWER konferansen hvor jeg snakket rundt en tweet jeg tvitret. Nedenfor er manuset mitt fra innlegget (jeg har fylt ut litt enkelte steder.) Er du kunnskapshungrig etter flere erfaringsbaserte praktiske råd om intern kommunikasjon, samhandling og Enterprise 2.0 bør du følge med til høsten, for da kommer Kommuneforlaget med en ny SoMe bok i sin...
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Når teknologien setter oss milvis tilbake
Jeg har en amerikansk venn som ble hoppende glad da han flyttet til Oslo fordi man “Trenger ikke bil i en by som Oslo hvor man har et såvidt godt utbygget kollektivnett”. Han hadde jo egentlig rett. Tigerstaden og bilinfiserte Amerika kan ikke sammenlignes på dette punktet.
For akkurat ett år siden kvittet jeg meg med bilen min. Folk ble overrasket og spurte hvordan jeg skulle få mine...
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The Trouble With Too Much Information →
[source: MIT Sloan Management Review]
Companies that pursue a number of improvement initiatives at once risk creating information overload for employees.
Is too much information causing your employees to make mistakes? That was the case in a number of Six Sigma improvement initiatives that I studied in aircraft manufacturing and repair companies. I discovered that the companies’ use of...
December 2011
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How Toyota and Linux Keep Collaboration Simple
(extract from Philip Evans and Bob Wolf’s article in Harvard Business Review, 2005):
Obsession, interaction, and a light touch
The rules of markets are about cash and contracts. The rules of hierarchies are about authority and accountability. But at the core of the Linux and Toyota communities are rules about three entirely different things: how individuals and small groups work...
November 2011
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DealBook: Zynga’s Tough Culture Risks a... →
A data-driven culture, which has been at the root of Zynga’s success, could become a serious liability, warn several former senior employees.
Bits: Asana Introduces a Souped-Up To-Do List to... →
Asana, a secretive start-up founded by Facebook veterans, introduces its long-awaited business software tool to the public.
October 2011
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Cyberhippie: Why Do Schools Use Proprietary... →
cyberhippie:
This is a thing that pisses me off and also makes me a little confused, why would a school spend shit loads on software licenses for things like Photoshop and MS Office when it could get open source alternatives for free. I know that Photoshop may have a little more features than something like…
September 2011
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Facebook Users Beware: Facebook's New Feature... →
If you didn’t watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook announcements last week — and of course the vast majority of Facebook users did not — you may be in for a surprise. Aside from the dramatically redesigned Facebook Timeline profile pages, which roll out in the coming weeks (and which I’ve …
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Birds in Enterprise 2.0 flock together?
Today Marika Lüders and I presented a brief introduction of our findings in our Enterprise 2.0 research case at the conference Kunnskapstinget 2011 in Oslo, Norway. We have depth interviewed 27 knowledge workers in four countries and at six entities. We have captured their digital competence and we have used social network analysis based on the close colleagues at work the informants have...
June 2011
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Disrupt the Disruptor---Cloud Computing on IT...
IT Outsourcing was widely regarded as a great innovation, fundamentally changed the landscape of IT industry with unprecedented impact on thousands of millions of companies’ IT operation. Thanks to the high velocity of technology innovation in IT industry, when IT outsourcing model has yet to fully penetrate the market, the yesterday’s disruptor are facing the same emerging challenge from today’s...
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Facebook and twitter, and their negative impact?
There has been a lot of debate lately on how social media are influencing our lives. Most often this debate is a about the negative implications of social network sites. Recently a new book “Alone Togheter” by the author Sherry Turkle said that “despite the invention of these social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, people are actually feeling lonelier than ever as they are having...
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A note on Enterprise 2.0
It is almost a decade since Charlie Chaplin made the film Modern Times where he criticizes the poor working conditions factory workers undergo, with constant pressure from management to increase production on constantly shorter time. Although quite some time has passed by, we can find similar mindsets in the debate on using social media at work. Concepts as time theft, gossiping at work and other...
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A democratic and collective blog
I admit it. I don’t have the time or the effort to host a blog by myself where I write about tech stuff I’m interested in. It would probably be up and going for a while, and then slowly die. Sounds familiar? There is a lot of not-updated-the-past-year-blogs out there. But does it have to be so either or?
I mean, I do comment on other blog posts, and I could contribute with a post on other...