A “Connected System” Approach to Collaboration
While the underlying chat technologies within Microsoft Teams, Slack, and other competitors have been around for decades, the advent of the cloud and the...
Category: Collaboration Tools
Transitioning to the New Normal
Why is change so difficult? Change is hard because it requires letting go, and possibly giving up some degree of control. Within an organization...
The Ongoing Battle with Content Sprawl
As many of you are aware, I have spent a sizeable chunk of my life writing about and presenting on knowledge and information management...
Achieving Business Alignment Without An “Easy” Button
What does it mean to achieve “business alignment?” Ask 10 people, get 10 answers. In my experience in working with various social and collaboration...
The 6 Tenets of Productivity
For those of us in the collaboration space, our lives are filled with the almost daily battles of integrating disparate systems and data, improving...
Data Silos and Systems of Engagement
Research conducted by Columbia University and others has shown that when confronted with too many choices, customers struggle to make any decisions — and...
The Problem with Microsoft Teams Governance
Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Groups are incredibly powerful productivity tools for modern collaboration, but as with any other collaboration or communication tools, without...
The Community Response to Shadow IT
I’ve written about this in the past, but thought it was time to once again make some of these important points: There are fundamental...
Adding Interactive Forms and Quizzes to PowerPoint
While not a brand new feature (released late 2018), the integration of Microsoft Forms is with PowerPoint for Office 365 provides a seamless way...
Adding to OneNote Meeting Notes via Mobile
As you all know, I’ve been a fanboy of OneNote pretty much from Day 1. As an Office Apps & Services MVP, I try...
