The power of wiki collaboration can be summed up in this Wikinomics graphics, originally created by Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. For large enterprises caught in the mire of email and multiple copies of documents a wiki can be a godsend.
So why is it so difficult change behaviour. Take out wiki and replace with SharePoint and you still have will the tendancy to use email and separate documents.
Collaboration - Email vs. Wiki
From : Wikinomics Blog
Looking for the edge in today’s economy? Trying to increase employee engagement? Don’t forget your employees.
In this interview Tom Peters and Seth Godin tell us if you have loyal employees the loyal customers will come.
There are more interview excerpts on the site “Inside the Entrepreneurial Mind”.
Check out New Perspectives on Business. Also take a look at the other sections: “The Business of Technology”, “How the Biz does Business”, “The Business of Food” and “Richard Branson”.
The site is Open Forum, sponsored by American Express.
If you are small or large business, you should be paying attention to Twitter. CEO Evan Williams talks about using Twitter to connect with your customers.
From: ZDNet.com
Can the benefits of an open office design benefit established enterprises as much as it seems to drive productivity in start-ups? A recent article from Accendor Research Inc. suggests just that.
For enterprises that truly want to benefit in the area of agility and teaming, a quick read and action can reap huge benefits.
We observed, for instance, one workgroup that rearranged their standard cubicles so that, instead of having a cluster of four served by a centre aisle with barrier walls to provide privacy, they opened the four up and created a centre meeting area with a round table. This group — technically oriented — wheeled up to the centre table and back to their “desks” at the margins of the space 10-15 times a day. (The lunch period, instead of being an “eat out” time, moved to become much more of an “eat in” session at the centre table, a mix of social time and “what have you heard” information sharing about industry news and developments.) This group was the parallel to the same function in another office: the other office made no such changes. Four people outperformed (quality and quantity of work) twelve in a more traditional setting: none of the four had ever been anything above a “satisfactory” performer before the change.
Today’s technology (wireless, VoIP, web conferencing and online collaborative spaces) allow anyone to work in the office environment that is suitable for the task. As office furniture is upgraded or offices relocated, fully reconfigurable offices should be high on the list.