Breaking through the Coasean Floor by , for

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In James Q. Wilson's 1989 book Bureaucracy, Wilson repeatedly mentions Ronald Coase and his 1937 paper 'The Nature of the Firm' regarding the... read more

Increasing Your Focus on SharePoint Productivity by , for

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I was reading Daniel Antion's post entitled Make SharePoint Simple, which made me think about my own transition into the topic of SharePoint productivity this past year. In his article, Dan... read more

Personalization the Key to Collaboration by , for

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It sounds counter-intuitive, doesn't it? To improve collaboration within your team or company, you need to improve end user abilities to personalize their experience. [At this point, all the... read more

The Turbulent Move to the Cloud by , for

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We can all see that our organizations are getting to be more mobile -- whether than means people doing more from their smart phones and tablets, or just that teams are more geographically disper... read more

Collaboration through Gamification by , for

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In a presentation to the Finland SharePoint User Group, Jussi Mori (@JussiMori) of Peaches Industries outlined some of the issues surrounding end user adoption and productivity on any collaborat... read more

Preventing Productivity "Leakage" by , for

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How productive are your end users? We all have this idea running through our minds about what productivity means, and whether or not we think our organizations are good at getting the most out o... read more

Force-Feeding Taxonomy to the Enterprise by , for

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While presenting at last year's Taxonomy Bootcamp (a KMWorld event) in Washington DC, I was able to attend a number of sessions on information architecture and taxonomy development given by... read more

SharePoint Wins with the ECM Ecosystem by , for

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I started a conversation with my friend and ECM expert Chris Riley a few months back (Is SharePoint 2010 Really Ready for ECM?) in which we explored some of the enterprise content management cap... read more

Augmenting, Bridging, and FOAF Networking by , for

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While on the road this past week meeting with various partners and technologists at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, coupled with recent news around Microsoft's acquisition of Yam... read more

Augmenting Your Social Capital by , for

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Many organizations underestimate the cultural learning curve associated with implementing more social collaboration tools. People are becoming more familiar with consumer-based social tools, yes... read more