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December 17, 2010 Posted in Dan Pink, MIT, Motivation, People and Processes 2 Comments

On Motivation, and What Really Drives Us

By Ben Kepes

We’ve been told for years that incentivizing employees is the secret to better performance.

A great talk given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) questions the assumption that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want and, the corollary, that if you punish something, you get less of the behavior.

Dan Pink refers to a study at MIT which was funded by the Federal Reserve. In this study, a whole group of students were given a set of challenges – physical, cognitive, and spatial. Performance was incentivized via monetary reward in an approach typical of most workplaces. So what happened?

Tagged adoption, enterprise 2.0, productivity |

November 1, 2010 Posted in Back2Basics, Sharepoint, Solutions, time savers 1 Comment

What a Difference a Minute Makes

By Ben Kepes

OK, so the song talks about a day and we’re talking about a minute, but allow me some creative license here. The recent SharePoint challenge demonstrates how real life users can save about a minute each time they use the harmon.ie sidebar to access sharepoint, to upload an email to SharePoint or upload a document and attach A link [...]

Tagged email, productivity |

September 14, 2010 Posted in distraction aids, distraction blockers, distractions, knowledge workers, productivity tip, Strategies Leave a comment

Avoiding Distractions

By Ben Kepes

The first word in the blog title – Distracted – is really relevant to this post. As knowledge workers, we face distractions more and more often in our work day that send our productivity plummeting and do little more than annoy us. So how …

Tagged productivity |

April 23, 2008 Posted in Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

National’s plans for FTTH

By Ben Kepes

Everyone will by now have seen National’s plans unveiled yesterday for a $1.5b investment in FTTH. John Key’s announcement is below; Lots of commentary about this already, Rod is pretty positive as it reasonably neatly dovetails with the work the NZI has done (and which Rod was involved in). Now

Tagged bb, ftth, national, productivity |

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.