Category Archives: Collaboration

November 7, 2010 Posted in Back2Basics, change management, Collaboration, Strategies, technology Leave a comment

Tools for the real world

By Ben Kepes

Remember once upon a time when software, and technology in general, was held up as the panacea for all ills? It would bring us the paperless office, vastly reduced working hours, a longer life expectancy, and a better standard of living. I don’t think we’ve gotten here yet - stress related diseases run rife, workers toil [...]

October 21, 2010 Posted in Collaboration, collaboration officer, organizational hierarchy, People and Processes, Strategies Leave a comment

Who is Responsible for Collaboration?

By Ben Kepes

Recently on HBR an interesting post suggested that companies need to appoint someone to ensure that collaboration occurs, a Chief Collaboration Officer if you will.
Chief Collaboration Officer is the person (or more likely group of people) who is tasked with“crafting a holistic solution to collaboration; one that involves strategy, HR, product development, sales solutions, marketing, and IT”. So, whose job is it?

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October 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, New Zealand, SocialMedia, Strategy 1 Comment

A Journey of A Thousand Miles

By Ben Kepes

Subsequent to TelecomONE over the weekend, and after a session discussing the social media activities of Telecom employees – some issues became evident. I’ve always been impressed that Vodafone New Zealand allow (and, I assume, encourage) Paul Brislen, their PR man, to participate in social media – be it on

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September 27, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Governance, IT, New Zealand, Strategy 1 Comment

When the Boss Buys In, You’re Bound to Win

By Ben Kepes

  Next weekend I’ll be up in Auckland attending the inaugural TelecomONE unconference. The organisers, in an attempt to explain what TelecomONE is all about, have come up with the following; The Right People + Opinions + Discussions = TelecomONE Innovation Basically the unconference seeks to create a forum where

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September 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, The Cloud, Web x.0 Leave a comment

A monolith opens up

By Ben Kepes

Really interesting to read this article in BusinessWeek. It tells the tale of Unilever, the massive company that brings us such staple items as Vaseline(!) It seems Unilever is realising that the college graduates they’re trying to attract simply cannot function within a rigidly locked-down IT infrastructure, where outside-the-firewall IM,

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September 4, 2008 Posted in Collaboration, Design, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Building better web communities

By Ben Kepes

Session one at the unconference was led by David Terrar and looked at building web communities – after his experience building one for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). Some interesting thoughts around "why to build communities". I pointed out that in fact we were discussing

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August 14, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, SocialMedia, Society 2 Comments

When you speak in the village square…

By Ben Kepes

Background: Individual A sent a friend an "@" prefixed tweet asking for advice. A company doing a general twitter search picked up the message and sent a message to individual A offering their services to help. Individual A spat the dummy claiming he was the recipient of spam, his privacy

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August 13, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, SocialMedia, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Now that’s a refreshing change

By Ben Kepes

I go to the odd commercial conference and they all tend to have a slick veneer but underneath they’re money making enterprises (after all most conferences are organised by self-serving professional conference companies). I’m heading over to Office 2.0 in San Francisco in a couple of week and it was

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August 12, 2008 Posted in Blogroll, Collaboration, Design, IT, Society 3 Comments

Ever decreasing circles

By Ben Kepes

Sarah posted over on RWW questioning the future for blogging. She questioned whether lifestreaming (which I’m officially terming digital diarrhoea from now on) will replace blogging as the digital trend de jour. In her post Sarah states that; There was a time when casual, personal blogging was your way to

August 6, 2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, SocialMedia, Strategy Leave a comment

Some cool stuff for SAP

By Ben Kepes

Has social media found a role within enterprise? I know it’s hard to believe but people are doing some really cool stuff for SAP. A bunch of geographically distributed people from various stakeholders (industry observers, Siemens, Adobe, SAP insiders and consultants etc). Details of who was involved can be seen

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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