Culture change is a bear. The conventional wisdom is that it takes years to change a culture, defined as the assumed beliefs and norms that govern “the way we do things around here.” And few organizations explicitly use culture as a way to drive business performance, or even believe […]
The Luck Factor in Great Decisions
20131119_1 Bill Gates made a bad decision early in his career. In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that some other people made even worse mistakes, we might not ever have heard of him. Yes, Gates was and is brilliant, and he worked hard. Malcolm Gladwell, author of […]
Video Conferencing Expected to be Preferred Business Communications Tool in 2016 According to New Survey on Global Video Conferencing Trends and Etiquette
Media releases are provided as is and have not been edited or checked for accuracy. Any queries should be directed to the company issuing the release. · Asia Pacific sees video as critical tool for global business · Audio quality – the ability to hear everyone clearly – ranked […]
Organizing for change through social technologies: McKinsey Global Survey results
While the percentage of companies adopting social technologies remains high, it has plateaued. After seven years of research on the use and benefits of social tools, respondents to our latest survey 1 1. The online survey was in the field from June 11 to June 21, 2013, and garnered […]
Why Stack Ranking Is A Terrible Way To Motivate Employees
Marissa Mayer Stack ranking , also referred to as forced ranking, where managers across a company are required to rank all of their employees on a bell curve, has been a controversial management technique since then GE CEO Jack Welch popularized it in the 1980s. Only a small percentage […]
Making the Leap: Creating the Next Generation CIO
by Angelia Herrin | 3:21 PM November 4, 2013 Corporate IT functions and IT leaders are entering a radically new era. Major new developments–including cloud computing, big data/analytics, mobile technology, and a distributed workforce–mean that CIOs and their staffs are being asked to lead and support businesses in very different […]
Running IT Like a Business
Rob Webb, CIO, TBM Council A few weeks ago, I caught up with Robert Webb, former CIO of Hilton Worldwide and Equifax before that. Rob has recently been named CEO of TBM (Technology Business Management Council ), a non-profit organization of CIOs who work together to define a decision-making […]
IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users
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 […]