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Ready or Not, it’s Time for Businesses to Get Social

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Enterprise social networking has been one of the most profound innovations to sweep the business world. Social networking itself now accounts for around 20% of all Internet traffic according to ComScore, which is a huge increase considering it was virtually zero five years ago. But this trend isn’t without its problems. Gartner has found that…

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Collaboration Roll-up: Ditching Comfort Zones, Gaining a Business Model + a CMO and CIO Love Story

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Conspire focused heavily on collaboration in May, with posts covering everything from business models to love stories (specifically between CMO and CIO). Check out six of our favorites below. Business Collaboration Finally Grows Up in 2013 After compiling decades of research, MIT Professor Tom Allen found that, despite the seemingly booming popularity of business collaboration platforms, people…

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The Cult-ure of Work

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I recently read a survey from Deloitte which looked at the importance of a strong business culture and found that in exceptional organisations (and let’s face it we all want to be exceptional!), there’s often a two-sided focus: strategy and culture. It also said that 88% of employees and 94% of executives believe having a…

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How Going from Virtual to Visual Will Reinvent Collaboration

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Recently I wrote about taking the next step in business collaboration, and how companies with their eyes on the climb not only need to come at collaboration from a business perspective first, but should also incorporate unified communications, enterprise social networking, and video technologies into business growth strategies, instead of merely viewing them as tactile…

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Gaining Business Value from E2E Collaboration Solutions

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All the collaboration solutions in the world don’t matter much unless they help your business grow, and tools are only as effective as the strategies they help execute. Web 2.0 technologies like chat, video correspondence, and other internet-based functions that transcend the webpage, are more than just instruments that speak to our need for connectivity;…

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The Future of Marketing is Collaborative [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Managed right, a variety of skill sets and ideas in one melting pot can yield innovative and sustainable business results. But in today’s socially-powered world communication is once again quite personal, meaning top-notch collaboration must transcend far beyond the office. Now, the most forward-thinking companies are expanding collaboration by bringing their very customers into the…

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Agile vs. Traditional Project Management: a Quick Q&A with Don Souza

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There’s been a lot of talk lately about the realm of project management, particularly when it comes to the radically different approaches and trends of today’s offices (see agile). And as with most transitions, some people are suffering from blind excitement while others are moving forward begrudgingly, secretly hoping for a resurgence of the “good ol’…

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