The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreModern communications and collaboration tools still don't address fundamental problems with meetings. Here's what is missing.…
Read MoreNew shifts in collaboration are changing the way we work, the way we create teams, and how we make distributed teams more effective.…
Read MoreThe time for enterprise-wide expensive solutions for collaboration has passed. Today’s collaboration tools are cloud-based and driven by more immediate mobile and video formats, and by companies such as Adobe, Blue Jeans, and Clarizen.…
Read MoreCloud-based videoconferencing that offers high fidelity and the ability to connect seamlessly to any video end point is critical to businesses because it increases employee engagement.…
Read MoreThe outsourcing market as a whole is approximately a $115 billion industry, and the top 14 crowdsourcing firms alone brought in about $50 million in revenue in 2011. Here's how companies can harness this power.…
Read MoreWorkplaces are changing because of trends like BYOD and gamification. But other emerging technologies are also altering not only what our work and space look like but also how we collaborate on that work. This piece delves into the different types of collaboration to provide a baseline of concepts. It then examines how emerging technologies like driverless cars, brain science, and 3D printers are being used to further collaboration in the near and far future. These advancements will not only support more and better types of collaboration in the workplace but will also impact where we work, what a workspace is, what we work on (literally), and how we share our work.…
Read MoreProject management today is much different than it used to be, and three common issues often arise in the workplace now: complexity, linear working and poor project management. Avoiding these pitfalls leads to smoother processes, more-productive workers and, ultimately, better business practices. This piece analyzes how new tools and project management software are creating the solutions to make that possible.…
Read MoreThe social enterprise is being touted as the next big thing: the new way to do business, a social way to do business. But the next big thing in collaboration is crowds, not social.…
Read MoreThe future of work is already here. It is just already distributed, one might say. The freelance economy, microtasking, mobile workers, coworking spaces, crowdsourcing: All of these point to how work is increasingly shifting from the twentieth-century model of Taylorism (think scientific management applied to labor processes such as assembly-line production and fixed workplaces) to a more flexible, hyperspecialized and connected workforce. This report examines the new world of work, from the devices and software services we use to the growing role of social media, the importance of a group-centric mentality and how the roles of employees, managers and organizations are evolving.…
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