by Aaron Levie | 12:00 PM November 14, 2013 The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company . As for the delight of the […]
Unified Communications in the Cloud (Dec. 12:
Press Contact: Diane Myers Principal Analyst, VoIP, UC, and IMS Infonetics Research (408) 583-3391 diane@infonetics.com twitter: dianemyers twitter: infonetics Infonetics unified communications survey finds video and cloud on the rise in the enterprise Campbell, CALIFORNIA, October 7, 2013—Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 2013 […]
Video Conference Users Distracted by Their Own Appearance
Video traffic has increased significantly, with large companies experiencing an increase of 70% annually according to Cisco research. In its own research, Steelcase found that people get distracted when they see themselves on video: 72% of workers notice their physical appearance on the screen when on a video conference […]
Younger execs swapping phones for webcams: Cisco survey
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com If you’re an executive of the old guard, you may be using the phone to conference call your team – but for the next generation of business executives, the webcam is their collaboration weapon of choice. In a global survey of more than 1,300 respondents […]
New Research Finds Use of Videoconferencing Growing As an Enterprise Productivity Tool
Video Moves from Meeting Rooms to PCs and Mobile Devices A new global survey shows that video conferencing is becoming increasingly important as an enterprise productivity tool that keeps our mobile, global workforce connected, and that it’s expanding from the conference room environment to office desktops, home laptops and […]
WebRTC: Is it the Panacea for the Video Conferencing Industry?
WebRTC: Is it the Panacea for the Video Conferencing Industry? For the industry, WebRTC presents more problems than it solves. For the industry, WebRTC presents more problems than it solves. I’m all for instant gratification and taking WebRTC at face value if it offers just that! WebRTC is all […]
Hurdles Remain In The Adoption of Video Conferencing
The popularity and prevalence of video conferencing systems in the business world has certainly grown in the past handful of years, but unfortunately many roadblocks yet remain in the path of making unified communications technology a truly strong and lasting presence. Many businesses still report hesitance to adopt the […]
Why Social Business Initiatives Fail
advertisement Mount Everest Why do so many social business programs fail? Gartner research estimates that fully 80% of social business initiatives will deliver disappointing results over the next three years. That’s a bad track record. It’s almost as if organizations were sabotaging their own efforts. A careful look at […]
The Rise of the Enterprise Social Consultant
Image: Jason A. Howie/Flickr Deloitte predicted that by the end of 2013 90% of Fortune 500 companies will have partially or fully deployed an enterprise social network, a 70% increase over 2011. Here we are at the end of 2013, and I think that number has been nailed many […]
The Curse of Knowledge
Magazine Impenetrable strategy statements can’t unite employees behind an organization’s goals, but concrete language and stories can. Many sensible strategies fail to drive action because executives formulate them in sweeping, general language. “Achieving customer delight!” “Becoming the most efficient manufacturer!” “Unlocking shareholder value!” One explanation for executives’ love affair […]