The Culture of Collaboration

Community Collaboration and Recycling San Francisco Style

2008-08-20T17:07:06-07:00

San Franciscans toss away at least five bicycles a day. When the mountain bike craze ebbed, that number was higher—at times, 20 bikes a day. And SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc. (aka The Dump) also gets 10 to 20 pieces...

Virtual Worlds and Cisco's Evolving Culture

2008-07-31T11:34:46-07:00

As organizations adopt virtual worlds, there is growing confusion about when telepresence or videoconferencing may fit the bill and when virtual worlds make more sense. Virtual worlds such as Second Life and Qwaq Forums enable geographically-dispersed colleagues to collaborate in...

Making Sense of Meetings

2008-07-30T14:27:06-07:00

There is certainly a distinction between collaboration and meetings. Nevertheless, one company is laser-focused on bringing efficiency to meetings through collaboration before, during and after meetings. That company is MeetingSense, which has just released version 3.0 of its hosted software....

Lodestar Gets Nearly 700 Nominations for $250K Collaboration Prize

2008-07-21T16:16:21-07:00

The Lodestar Foundation has received 600 to 700 nominations for its first annual $250,000 collaboration prize. Today is the deadline, and I just got off the phone with Lois Savage, the foundation’s president. Lois tells me that the impetus for...

Collaboration Means Knowing When to Step Aside

2008-07-08T16:05:47-07:00

“Do you want to be rich or do you want to be king?” That’s the question Mark Perry, general partner with New Enterprise Associates, asks founders of portfolio companies who resist being replaced. Often, venture capitalists like Mark seek to...

Collaborating in the Same Room—What a Concept!

2008-06-21T10:44:48-07:00

Collaboration happens because of the interplay of culture, environment and tools with an emphasis on culture. While tools are key enablers, collaboration never happens solely because of tools. That said, real-time tools including instant messaging, web conferencing, videoconferencing, telepresence and...

Malcolm Gladwell: Measurement Methods Killing Creativity and Innovation

2008-06-06T18:06:03-07:00

Malcolm Gladwell is about to turn talent recruitment and development upside down. Last Monday at the American Society for Training and Development 2008 International Conference and Exposition in San Diego, I talked with Malcolm about his forthcoming book. Outliers: Why...

Collaborative Music and Video Production Changing Entertainment Business

2008-05-30T14:57:21-07:00

Budding musicians, filmmakers and other artists are creating value through collaborative production. Online creative collaboration now goes well beyond finding and meeting like-minded artists. Now people are producing artistic works collaboratively without sharing physical space. This is having an increasing...

BMW, Daimler and Collaborating with Competitors

2008-05-19T17:43:37-07:00

Collaborating with competitors involves yin and yang, two opposing and simultaneously complementary facets of a single phenomenon. This balance can create substantial value, particularly when the collaboration involves common processes that provide no competitive advantage. An example of this is...

Adobe Acrobat Connect Becoming Enterprise-Ready

2008-05-04T21:01:00-07:00

I’ve been using Adobe Acrobat Connect for more than a year, and I’ve come to appreciate its simplicity. The web conferencing program has fit the bill as a Minneapolis-based colleague and I have collaborated on refining The Culture of Collaboration...