Why You Shouldn’t Give People Too Much Credit

Changing expectations to help achieve better results

Sometimes I feel like I give people too much credit. I don’t mean credit as in praise or accolades. I mean I too often think that people…

Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth

Or, why everyone needs to know their role…

There is an old saying dating back to the 16th century that “too many cooks spoil the broth.” If you do a search on this phrase, most of the examples you’ll find relate to…

Implementing IBM Connections

Tips and advice from zero to launch…

I’m gratefully, thankfully, miraculously near the end of a long journey to implement IBM Connections for my company of 50,000. This journey took longer than it should have but this article…

How Watson Work Aims to Help Fulfill the Promise of Enterprise Collaboration

IBM’s new Watson Work Services and Watson Workspace initiatives set out to bring cognitive computing to collaboration…

Numbers: One Week into the Launch of our Redesigned Intranet and ESN

What they are saying and what they aren’t saying…

Numbers by themselves rarely tell a complete story. And sometimes the things we can measure aren’t…

Using IBM Connections to Take and Synchronize Notes across Devices

What works well, and what can be improved…

I’m a digital note taker, having given up pen and paper many years ago. Since then, I have tried out the most popular…

Can we build AI without losing control of it? — Sam Harris

A TED Talk from Sam Harris on the perils and passion of pursuing artificial intelligence.

My Version of the Future of Work

This is what the future of work looks like to me. This view of the future of work is imagined through the lens of employee productivity and engagement. My focus then is on how future employees will communicate, collaborate, and get things done.

Three Tips for Presenting To Executives

And a bonus rant about the lost art of the memo

Intranets aren’t Dead

But, you need to have mobile components to your digital workplace…

Stuart Jackson, VP of Communications at Nissan Europe, shared a somewhat provocative idea on LinkedIn the other day claiming that the intranet was dead…