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 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 | January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
In my posting How a Collaboration Technology Gets Adopted I described a storyline of how a collaboration technology goes from purchasing through adoption (and beyond to value). That technology could be social networking, SharePoint, an intranet, or a portal – I’ve seen the same pattern with all of them. There are 3 paths for what [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 25, 2012 | Comments Off
Adoption, adoption, adoption. Sometimes it seems like that’s all anyone wants to hear about when it comes to collaborative technologies such as social networking, SharePoint, Jive, or intranets. I’m on record as being a bit of a curmudgeon about adoption since I’ve seen it abused so frequently (particularly in the SharePoint space) by IT folks [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 22, 2011 | Comments Off
On Tuesday Microsoft launched a SharePoint adoption website for SharePoint 2010. It takes a similar approach to the SharePoint Buzz Kit they published for 2007, helping internal SharePoint evangelists (often the owners of SharePoint) to set off light bulbs in the heads of potential business users (and turn them into fans). Seeing as I wrote [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
Ever have one of those arguments at work that never seems to end? People leave the company and pick up right where they left off years later. The role of social computing in communication and collaboration is one of those arguments and two alumni of my Collaboration and Content team, now at Cisco and Microsoft, [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
“Driving Adoption” for SharePoint is a bad idea. There, I’ve said it. I’ve said it before too (see “’Driving adoption’ is a band aid for poor demand management”) using ITIL terminology. Now a new marketing book provides a term that may resonate better: Outside In strategy. In an article at Knowledge@Wharton (“’Outside In’ Strategy for [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 4, 2010 | Comments Off
IBM announced Project Northstar at their 2010 Exceptional Web Experience conference this week. I blogged on the details and my first impressions previously (see here), but wanted to save a side thought about the potential for assisting with information overload for a separate entry. IBM defined their vision in a good diagram with 3 main [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 29, 2010 | Comments Off
The debate about whether collaborative app developers are shifting from IBM Lotus Domino to Microsoft Office SharePoint has been raging for quite a while. Related questions such as whether Microsoft spends more on marketing or just benefits from “shiny new thing” syndrome are also fun to debate. I won’t step into that debate today, but [...]
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