All tagged social business
Collaboration is important to buisness, but it isn't the only thing. And it can't be forced by merely rearranging the deck chairs. Peter Vander Auwera gives me incentive to think about these things.
The Boston Globe, David Allen and Farhad Manjoo all have me thinking about personal productivity, and how to go about creating the necessary focus.
A couple of articles have me thinking and wondering why we still convert "collaboration" or "social business" into things they are not. The problem - as always - is that people are confusing the tools for the behavior. The behavior we want to see is people working together to get things done ("collaboration").
I received a number great responses from my last post on KM for small businesses: more than just email. The most important comment I will repeat: whatever you do has to fit with the style of the business. There is no such thing as one-size-fits all knowledge management. Therefore there is no one-size-fits-all technology. And for small businesses, the technology is most likely a smaller element anyway. Much more of what's considered to be knowledge management happens in the conversations and interactions amongst the members of the business.