(NEW YORK, NY) Lawyers love pouring cold water on new ideas; “that’s not the way we work,” or they proclaim something to do with “liability” and “privacy regulations” as knee-jerk arguments for blocking innovation. “Sometimes listening to legal counsel is not always the best thing to do, “ says Shel Holtz, consultant and Principal of […]
SharePoint offers so many services, so many bells and whistles, it is a mile wide… but only an inch deep (possibly a foot deep). SharePoint is such an effective, all-encompassing, basic solution for so many challenges and opportunities that the bulk of the services, without expensive customization, leave much to be desired – the basics […]
Social media is now present on just about every big and medium-size corporate intranet. Though most deployments are minimal, if not pure pilots, and are usually not done with much planning or change management. It’s no surprise then that most executives (senior management) still need to be sold the value of social media on the […]
Luddites are frequently overused as consummate examples when contrasting technophobes of the past with those of today. I prefer more timely and recent comparisons than those textile artisans of the early 1800s because there there are more obvious and laughable, modern-day comparisons to today’s technophobes. Famed negotiator Herb Cohen went to work for GM in […]
Social media on the intranet (Intranet 2.0) is not a fad, or a passing trend that will fade away. Despite the curmudgeonly calls of the greying Luddites it’s not just here to stay, it’s breaking through the firewall with increasing velocity. Consider the findings of the Intranet 2.0 Global Study: 87% of organizations have at […]