You don’t know what you don’t know by , for

SharePoint

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  You’re tasked with rolling out SharePoint, the company want to do collaboration better. Being a conservative organisation the execs have engaged a very expensive, but respected,... read more

Innovation can be mechanical, too by , for

Capture ECM

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A couple of months ago, I wrote how important it is not to settle for automation when there is innovation to be had. Today, I'd like to take this one step further, and perhaps one step to th... read more

Innovative open source software by , for

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When I originally discovered open source software, most of the projects were usually works of love, developed by passionate amateurs in their free time and that were interesting but were often n... read more

Don't just automate, innovate! by , for

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Properly conceived and implemented, information technology lets us save time, money, and resources on a daily basis by allowing us to automate the more predictable, repeatable, and painful of ou... read more

Occupy IT: John Mancini Peers Behind the Fire Curtain by , for

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John Mancini is the CEO of AIIM. But I've come to regard him as a one man reality check -- someone who deals in the day-to-day operational slog of a trade group with the big picture capacity... read more

SharePoint and Big Data - Buzzwords, the Cloud, and Reality by , for

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  As midsize to Fortune 500 type organizations are finding out, a hosted SharePoint cloud outside of their immediate control can cause unbelievable frustrations. Configurations or small... read more

Activity Streams Are Not the Killer App by , for

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Expert blogger David Lavenda wrote an interesting piece for the Fast Company blog which essentially paints activity streams as the email-killer. While Twitter provides a sort if activity stream,... read more

The Power of Decentralization by , for

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Back in 2001, I joined a venture capital-backed startup to help design and deploy a hosted collaboration platform for high-tech manufacturing companies and their extensive ecosystems of design a... read more

How do you spell IP? by , for

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How do you spell I.P.? IP is a system problem if you're steeped in process. There are all kinds of hard stops and high boundaries for containing what the organization knows in orde... read more

How to kill innovation in SharePoint, in five easy steps by , for

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Alright, I admit it: I borrowed my post title from a great article by Jason Hiner, Editor in Chief of TechRepublic, in which he provides guidance on the habits to avoid if innovation is in any w... read more