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• Report on which web2.0 technologies work for the enterprise

  I thought that this article was topical given that I am writing on how organisational culture and behavioural style impacts the sorts of collaborative tools that individuals and organisations gravitate to and find useful. The reports cover 11 common Web... Posted Nov 18 2008, 05:38 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: planning, Collaboration, Strategy, organisational culture, web2.0

• Root Causes of Communication Fragmentation: Organisational Culture

  This is the second article in a series of articles which examine factors causing the sort of organisational inefficiencies that lead people to use products like SharePoint. My first article in the series examined individual learning and behavioural styles... Posted Nov 17 2008, 12:39 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Project Management, planning, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Globalisation, Books, Assurance, social fragmentation, organisational culture

• Root Causes of Communication Fragmentation: Learning styles and behavioural styles

  This is the first article in a short series that will be looking at factors causing the sort of communication problems that underpin the motivation to implement a product like SharePoint. When you think about why you want to implement SharePoint, it tends... Posted Nov 17 2008, 12:38 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Governance, Assurance, social fragmentation, organisational culture

• I’m a twit too

  I’m always a little slow on the uptake with anything new (Nintendo Wii being my first games console in 10 years being a case in point). But what the hell - let’s have even more information flowing into my PC for my poor old grey matter to... Posted Nov 01 2008, 06:16 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Collaboration

• It’s all in the way you ask the question…

  (Nerds are going to find this post dead boring). Before I start, let me state that I am a believer in the Honey and Mumford theory of learning styles, as well as the Marston DISC assessment. I think both are closely related, and go some way to explaining... Posted Oct 02 2008, 08:17 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Project Management, planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Wicked Problems

• Office SharePoint 2007 Document: How to Get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft

  Microsoft has released a whitepaper "How to get the Most Value from Social Computing for Business with Microsoft". The whitepaper discusses the value of social computing for business, citing 2 customer references of large scale enterprise deployments... Posted Aug 28 2008, 07:16 AM by Alex blog about Microsoft Filed under: Collaboration, The new world of work, Whitepaper, Social Networking, Social Computing

• "Ain’t it cool?" - Integrating SharePoint and real-time performance data - Part 2

  Hi again This article is the second half of a pair of articles explaining how I integrated real-time performance data with an SharePoint based IT operational portal, designed around the principle of passive compliance with legislative or organisational... Posted Aug 09 2008, 02:03 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: planning, Collaboration, SharePoint, Governance, ITIL, ISO17799/27001, Sarbanes-Oxley, COBiT, Infrastructure, NETFLOW, WMI, OSISoft, SNMP, real-time, PERFMON, PI, Web Parts

• IT and the Corporate Immune Mechanism - the "Mother Hen" reflex

  Recently, I came across the blog of Dux Raymond, a Project Manager, forthcoming author and trainer who looks at SharePoint from a project management perspective. Being rather interested in that area myself, I read his "Empowered by SharePoint"... Posted Jul 25 2008, 05:01 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk

• Thinking SharePoint Part 3 - A tale of two clients

  My third post on "Thinking SharePoint" for www.endusersharepoint.com reproduced here Hi all [Quick reference: Part 1 and Part 2] If you have followed the first two articles in this series, I have been attempting to talk about SharePoint "head... Posted Jul 23 2008, 08:03 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: Project Management, planning, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint, Governance, Risk

• Thinking SharePoint Part 2 - The "Unconsciously Incompetent" Ikea Mecca

  My next post on "Thinking SharePoint" for www.endusersharepoint.com reproduced here. Hi again. Sorry about the delay in continuing with this "how to think SharePoint" series, but in Australia, the month of June is the end of the financial... Posted Jun 26 2008, 09:45 AM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: planning, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint

• Thinking SharePoint (and listen to your mother!)

  Note: Special thanks to Andrew Jolly for his excellent ideas and feedback I have to say, SharePoint is one of the most misunderstood products that Microsoft have ever released. The misunderstanding extends from executive management who signed the budget... Posted Jun 13 2008, 07:09 PM by CleverWorkarounds Filed under: planning, Collaboration, Strategy, SharePoint