Does IT matter… in Australian supermarkets?
Writing in ITNews, technology journalist Liz Tay compares the IT strategies of Australia's major banks and supermarkets - she see parallels with a University of Melbourne paper that categorised CIOs as...
View ArticleInfor launches Ming.le - focusing on a social user experience for enterprise...
A late entrant to the enterprise social software market, last year enterprise software company Infor launched Infor10 SocialSpaces.This week they announced an upgrade to this concept, called...
View ArticleOpen sourced intranets you can download
I like to keep my eyes open for alternative intranet technologies - here are a couple of new options to consider:DCMS Wordpress themeThe developers of the intranet for the Department for Culture, Media...
View ArticleKM Australia 2013
Last year I attended Ark Group's KM Australia in Sydney as part of a debate on capturing tacit knowledge using social technologies. This year I'm looking forward to attending as a participant, although...
View ArticleDo the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) benefits really add up?
From CFO magazine, an interesting financial perspective on the value of BYOD - quoting from a Nucleus Research paper they warn:"Companies can’t reap the full benefits of a bring-your-own-device policy...
View ArticleIs HR interested in the Digital Workplace?
Interesting series of posts from Jane McConnell about the perspective of HR on the digital workplace (aka intranets, enterprise social software, etc).The first two posts (with another to come) ask:Is...
View ArticleSAP SuccessFactors raise the user experience bar for a digital workplace
Yesterday I attended day 1 of SAP SuccessFactor's SuccessConnect conference in Sydney. I was there to learn more about SAP's roadmap for its enterprise social software offering (SAP Jam) and also to...
View ArticleGovernment disrupted
I first got involved with the Government 2.0 conversation in 2009, but a lunch time discussion the other day reminded me that the arc of change on that particular wave of change has come to an end here...
View ArticleSocial innovation with purposeful mobile apps
Yes, yes, I know this is just marketing. But even so, its nice to see social innovation enabled by mobile apps being highlighted.This 10 minute video highlights the following apps:Skyscape - a clinical...
View ArticleDoes technology-led social innovation in Australia have to be blue-sky?
I'll get to the point of this blog post in a moment… but first:I blogged about FutureGov's Australian Patchwork pilot back in March. This is a recording of FutureGov's Dominic Campbell presenting at a...
View ArticleRentokil Initial's Google Sites intranet
This post is part of series looking at alternative intranets, using cloud-based platforms, like Google Apps and Salesforce.Rentokil Initial (RI) is a 110-year old company, which now employs over 60,000...
View ArticleWolters Kluwer swaps a static intranet for an enterprise social network
The idea of replacing a traditional or static intranet with enterprise social network is an idea that has been floating around for sometime. However, opinion is quite divided - some will tell you can't...
View ArticleExamples of companies who put their intranet on the internet
I've previously written about the Royal Mail's externally accessible staff website (unfortunately, if you are outside the UK they have now geoblocked the content).Here are some more examples, both...
View ArticleVirgin America's mobile social intranet case study
If you are looking for more detail about VXConnect, this Salesforce Webinar features Virgin America's Benjamin Eye, who explains the objectives behind their mobile, social intranet:The Virgin America...
View ArticleEsn-info-mgmt
Its been suggested that you can't manage controlled or confidential content in an enterprise social network - a traditional intranet and/or document management system are an absolute must in any...
View ArticleKm
Knowledge management is all about the people, right. Actually, its a little more complicated than that.Nancy Dixon presents one of the better overviews of the state of knowledge management today, where...
View ArticleYes, we can reduce (if not eliminate) our reliance on email
Matt O'Hara, CEO of two registered social and sporting clubs in Wollongong, Australia, joins a growing list of businesses like Volvo, ATOS, Halton Housing Trust, and Ferrari that are actively changing...
View ArticleLeonardi & Treem: Understanding the barriers to success and benefits of...
I just discovered some work by Paul Leonardi, a professor of communication at Northwestern University with an appointment at the Kellogg School in the US, who has been researching what he calls...
View ArticleCoffee morning in Melbourne on Tue 6th August
I'm going to be in Melbourne for a few days next week and thought it would be good to organise a coffee morning. We'll be talking about everything from social intranets and knowledge management to...
View ArticleNancy Dixon Explains 3rd Era Knowledge Management
Knowledge management (KM) is all about the people, right. Actually, its a little more complicated than that.Last year, Nancy Dixon presented what I think is one of the best overviews of the state of...
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