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10 Nov 09

McAfee’s Hypothesis (plus contest results!) : Andrew McAfee’s Blog

  • First, that all email, all the time yields many problems but also one benefit: one-stop shopping for all collaboration activities. Second, that that benefit is highly valued by busy senior managers. And third, that these managers get to call the shots for the collaborations they’re involved in.
  • McAfee’s hypothesis: Within organizations, collaboration technologies are dictated by the most powerful person involved in the collaboration.

McKinsey: What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration

  • Unfortunately, the productivity measures for collaboration workers are fuzzy at best. For production workers, productivity is readily measured in terms of units of output; for transaction workers, in operations per hour. But for knowledge workers, what might be thought of as collaboration productivity depends on the quality and quantity of interactions occurring.
  • The interactive graphic that accompanies this article provides a synthesis of our view on how organizations can improve collaboration.
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Dunbar’s Number and the Future of Communications

  • The asymmetrical and casual nature of social networks is allowing humans to engage in what Robin Dunbar has termed “social grooming” with increasingly larger groups — without investing increasingly larger amounts of time.
  • Dunbar argues that the number of people with whom humans can maintain a relationship is a function of neocortical size.
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27 Oct 09

Ozzie on the realtime wave

  • We expected to get the answer e-mail, because e-mail is the 99th percentile tool that we use for collaboration, but people don’t view it that way. They view e-mail as personal: I’m sending stuff that I want to be sent, I receive stuff that I should see or that people —
  • Blogging was at its birth default public, and so that had a certain impact on the vast majority of how people used it. E-mail was born as a default private mechanism.
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