by Craig Roth | February 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Many of the ease of use, form factor, and responsiveness promises made by mobile devices and software providers depends on an important underlying assumption: that you are consuming textual information way more than you are creating it. Sure, you may snap some photos, like/thumbs-up/+1 some stuff, and email or IM a sentence or two, but [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 17, 2012 | Comments Off
With all due respect to William Ury and his negotiating strategy book “Getting to Yes,” the difficulty faced by owners of governance projects in organizations not used to governance is how to get to the point that saying “no” is feasible and actually works. After all, you don’t need to do anything with governance if [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 14, 2012 | Comments Off
Today is Valentine’s Day. What better day to show some love to your knowledge infrastructure – the email, calendaring, intranet, portal, business intelligence, and content management systems that tirelessly serve your information needs all year? The best part is that you don’t even have to trudge to the boutique chocolate shop, jewelry store, or florist. [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 8, 2012 | 3 Comments
I’ve had a handful of clients ask me about the same use case: we need something to maintain a high level view of how a whole slew of projects are doing. There’s no standard project management software or approach being used, so this just has to be superimposed on the existing chaotic and inconsistent processes [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 7, 2012 | 3 Comments
Have you gotten any emails with this Email charter attached that points to “10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral”? I’ve seen a few examples, but the “email charter” is one of the better and more organized attempts I’ve seen. Unfortunately, these email etiquette screeds suffer from the problem that they focus on email. I’m [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 6, 2012 | Comments Off
Many clients are asking about how to develop mobile custom applications, create mobile front-ends to existing applications, secure their mobile content, select mobile devices, craft mobile policies, and manage the devices. Those are all very good questions to ask and critical to supporting the needs of flexible, distributed organizations and workers. But what about mobile [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 3, 2012 | 3 Comments
Well, this whole virtual collaboration thing, working from anywhere at anytime, was a nice try but now I guess it’s over. So says Lucy Kellaway in the Economist’s “Year in 2012” issue (Back to Formality). I’d best transition my industry analysis coverage area (collaboration, communication) to dry cleaning of wool suits, corporate real estate trends, [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments
The amount of unstructured content being produced is increasing at an exponential rate and is increasingly spread across repositories, uncategorized, and untagged. Is your first thought: A. Oh my gosh! How can these information assets be protected? B. Oh my gosh! How am I going to be able to find anything or notice anything important? [...]
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