Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category

Communities and networks connection

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 16, 2009
Filed in Collaboration, News

Tomorrow is the big launch. Nancy White has been toiling away with Tony Karrer to develop a dynamic website that aggregates community and network blogs. …

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Community of practice paper featured in Insightory

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 7, 2009
Filed in Collaboration, News

Just to let you know that my paper on tacit knowledge and communities of practice has been featured on insightory.com.

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Assessing the health of a community of practice using net promoter score

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —February 3, 2009
Filed in Collaboration

It’s a simple idea: if you have more promoters than detractors you can expect your business to thrive. This is the basis of the Net …

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Use stories to communicate the value of collaboration

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 29, 2009
Filed in Business storytelling, Collaboration

In the previous two posts (Shawn’s on his forthcoming presentation and Chandni’s about collaboration between Google and P&G) have used specific examples to illustrate how …

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I’m giving a talk on collaboration and your invited

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 23, 2009
Filed in Collaboration, News

For years software vendors and consulting firms have been developing SAP software components for NSW government agencies and on-selling the same software to numerous other …

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Profiting from Collaboration

Posted by  chandni —January 21, 2009
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

Google and P&G are both known for their innovation capabilities and strict internal policy. Driven by market forces, they made an exception. They swapped about …

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Getting communities of practice going

Posted by  Mark Schenk —January 19, 2009
Filed in Collaboration

In the latter half of 2008, we worked with a number of companies to establish communities of practice. In training the people with key roles …

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Group rewards result in higher performance

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 8, 2009
Filed in Anecdotes, Collaboration

When I was at IBM leading the software services group in Melbourne I suggested in one of our leadership meetings that we should introduce a …

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Trends that will affect enterprise collaboration

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —January 7, 2009
Filed in Collaboration

The beginning of the year is a good time to take stock of where things are going and try and get a handle on the …

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Banning Facebook and the like from corporations

Posted by  Shawn Callahan —December 17, 2008
Filed in Collaboration

On January 16, 1920 the National Prohibition Act came into effect in the United States and all intoxicating liquor was banned, and so began the …

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