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Jul

2011

Killing the status meeting and the next generation of productivity

"Commentary - Right now, 60 percent of the US and Global workforce is made up of knowledge workers; it's predicted by 2012 there will be a 6 percent difference between the demand and supply for information workers. Even today, with U.S. unemployment in the high single digits many companies struggle to hire qualified workers. These workers are expensive to hire, train and retain – and there are few proven methods to maximize their productivity. "

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The next productivity push will come from optimizing how information workers collaborate, communicate and complete their work
Information worker management is about orchestration, not micro-management. Hire, train and orchestrate using the right tools
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- . Rigid tracked-changes and chain-of-approval are giving way to fluid consulting and a focus on the end product.
- Prudent management requires thoughtful use of resources – and when your resources are the minds of your people, optimization is not about speeding up an assembly line by having parts next to it
- Status updates – via email, a meeting, a PowerPoint deck - kill productivity.
- Information workers spend countless hours gathering information, preparing and presenting about their work rather than DOING their work
- We all want to know the status, but we don’t have the time to waste building materials just to convey it. It should be conveyed by the work execution process.
- Status meetings are the quality control of information workers – they happen after the product is created and are outside the natural process of doing the work.
- Build visibility into the work process and not only will productivity go up, but this new data will allow you to plan for future work and devote resources more effectively.
- Moving to the cloud is the fastest and most secure way to centralize information and create visibility into your organization.

May

2011

Serious Play: The Business of Social Currency

"Like many other platforms, including popular networks such as Facebook, Empire Avenue caters to human psychological factors and uses game techniques to reward participation and encourage a participant to willingly "give up" what is truly valuable in business--data. So why would someone want to give up data? Facebook knows the answer to this question: social currency."

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Social currency is shared information that encourages further social encounters. It's not a new concept, but the social web increases its prevalence.
As someone who has taken a deep dive in several social networks (I joined Twitter in 2007) and observes both the gaming and currency aspects of them, I do believe these dynamics will influence the business world as it becomes more connected.
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- Not everyone enjoys competition, but competitive environments often generate more participation, and friendly competition can lead to positive results.
- Features that encourage participants to play are often effective ways to increase participation and engagement.
- A system that keeps count of your accomplishments typically acts as the primary reward for an individual who chooses to continue to participate
- dives deep into topics and scores individuals or companies against those topics indicating a status tied to influence in a specific topic or category. For businesses, this can be valuable in knowing who's who in regards to the topics you care about.
- However, your customers, employees, and even business partners are likely spending scores of hours on their social network of choice trading in some type of social currency, even if they don't know it.

Mar

2010

Sharing Status Updates Reduces Duplication Of Work

"Internal microblogging provides companies similar benefits to services like Twitter, but adds a layer of privacy, by sharing the information only within your company. This enables you to provide status updates internally, which you would not share with the public. For example, you can mention customer accounts, codenames, future projects, and other "internal-only" things. (last sentence added after original post) "

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Want more proof, take a moment and read about how St. Louis Public Radio is using Signals to openly share information. As station manager Tim Eby says: “People understand each other more, and they know what others are doing. This lets us respond more quickly to new opportunities."

Oct

2008

JP Rangaswami on Sharing Acitivity in Businesses - The Social Enterprise

JP Rangaswami of BT Design went a little bit further in that direction, by outlining how social tools can usefully become part of our working practices - and even build on some of the existing ones.

Social tools enavble the communities within businesses to emerge. There are fewer figures of authority and it's more a peer space than the traditional heirarchial business.

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Young people today are going to come into the workplace used to pervasive. mobile communications and they're not going to be impressed with the static, lock-down worsktations we have now.

"They're pre-trained not to think as stupidly as previous generations," said JP.
"If we make everything we say a data object, and we can share and move it around," he says. "It becomes valuable."