by Craig Roth | March 14, 2011 | Comments Off
Around 1990, an end user computing tool began making the rounds at the financial services firm where I worked. It did quick database and forms work, and a typical set of pros and cons emerged as central IT struggled with embracing it as a way to empower the business units (alternately worded as “get them [...]
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by Craig Roth | March 10, 2011 | Comments Off
A colleague recently brought up the issue of how universities aren’t preparing knowledge workers for the real world. That sparked me to dig up a 2008 blog entry I wrote on another blog and would like to expose to my new GBN audience. It was about how students are taught to solve problems being spoon [...]
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by Craig Roth | March 9, 2011 | Comments Off
I hope that anyone interesting in shaping the communication, collaboration, and content strategies of their organizations is planning to attend our Catalyst conference, being held in July 26 – 29 in sunny San Diego. One of the strengths of Catalyst has been the detailed end user presentations to illustrate how IT challenges have been addressed [...]
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by Craig Roth | March 8, 2011 | 8 Comments
Feeling the pain of inbox overload? Here’s an idea: now add in messages that are status updates from your CRM system (“Jim Chen just hit his monthly AGP quota”), content management system (“Presentation AugConfv2-2.pptx was added”), social networking page (“Jackie Cropper just commented on Susan Hg’s photo”), and project planning system (“Task ‘Get buy-in from [...]
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