With Technology, We’re Never Satisfied
We are a consumer society. We are fascinated by the new. We’re often dazzled by fashion over substance, form over function. We run out...
Category: Management 2.0
Consider the Scope of Your Networking
At the February meeting of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) Seattle chapter, we’re planning to halt the content for a month...
Diversity, Social Teams, and the Zappos Holacracy
The news is afire over Zappos founder Tony Hsieh’s decision to eject the traditional management model at the online shoe retailer, and to embrace...
The Speed At Which Value is Created
At a recent event I attended in Florida for AIIM.org, futurist, author and educator Thornton May, who was facilitating the event, asked a very...
You Could Say That I Am Pro-Business Analyst
The Business Analyst is a largely misunderstood role. Years back, I worked closely with BAs in my role as a Technical Project Manager within...
Balancing Governance and Social
Back in 1997, between working full-time, attending business school in the evening, and trying to get my own software startup off the ground, I...
Making community a Strategic Activity
Sitting in the MVP Summit this week on Microsoft campus in Redmond, I’ve been thinking a lot about community. The SharePoint community is a...
Controlling Sprawl Means Process+Culture
One of the reasons SharePoint grew so quickly over the past decade was due to the strict controls placed on many corporate portals, or...
Building a Brand
"If your brand walked into a bar, what would it start talking about?" ~Lisa Moretti, Gartner A common mistake is thinking that your corporate...
Process, Iteration, and Failure Lead to Innovation
Innovation rarely comes as the result of an apple falling from a tree and hitting you in the head. Innovation is more of a...
