Archive for 'Collaboration Biz'
Get rid of your office
Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by Luke.
There are those who claim that salaries are the biggest expense in running a business. I disagree. You get a return on that particular investment. Offices on the other hand drain your bank account. Sure it provides a place to work. But so does your home, a coffee shop, a co-working space, or a trillion [...]
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The Business of Free – An Examination of Different Business Models
Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by Ryan A.
Photo: kalandrakas In the recently released book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson illustrates a recent trend in business, the business model where you give away products and services for free. This trend has been especially popular among web 2.0 companies, where the focus has been shifted from making money, to making [...]
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The New Way to Work: The Future of Document Management Software
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Ryan A.
It’s the year 1989, and Microsoft has just released Word for Windows at a price of $500 US dollars. Twenty years later, Microsoft Word remains dominant in the industry, as the most popular word processing application. However, Word is still currently an offline tool. Two decades of development on Word have created a tool that [...]
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Good Office Design Can Encourage Collaboration among Workers
Posted on 10. Sep, 2009 by Ryan A.
The prevailing design aesthetic of office spaces, being pioneered by companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are proving that an open and cubicle free work environment promotes efficiency, increases group work productivity, and improves employee morale. Facebook’s New Office: You won’t find any cubicles in Facebook’s new 150,000 square-foot office in Palo Alto, California. The [...]
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Start-up Synergy: US Grand Prix Engineering (USGPE) and Silicon Valley
Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Ryan A.
It was announced yesterday that the new United States based Formula One team US F1 signed a deal with Youtube to be its primary investor. In an interview with Autosport.com, YouTube’s co-founder Chad Hurley sees tremendous potential in this deal to integrate new media and social connections into Formula One. Photo: Christiaan Ploeger As a [...]
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Focus on Business Collaboration: People Managers
Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Ryan A.
The core task of any business manager is people management. Your effectiveness at managing the people you interact with is the key component in deciding whether or not you will be successful at managing projects. So, let’s break that task down into the important components: Delegation with Transparency and Efficiency—“what are they working on?” The [...]
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Bad managers hate collaboration apps
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by Luke.
There is only one single group of people that hate collaboration tools and applications. Bad managers. They hate things like Huddle with a vengeance. All that transparency, the focus on actually doing work as opposed to obsessing and moaning about processes, not to mention the quick feedback and dialogue! All really bad things as far [...]
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Getting to the first kiss in a project
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Luke.
By Jaan Orvet Starting a new project is a bit like dating a new person. There is some prep, mutual interests, places and goals are assessed, there’s a bit of back and forth, and if everything goes well one of you moves in for the first kiss. Or in project lingo – the first to-do [...]
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The Implications of an Aging Population
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by Ryan A.
For the first time ever, the retiring population is a much larger percentage that those remaining in the workforce. In addition, there is a significant age gap between those that are retiring and those workers left in the workforce. What will the workplace of the future look like?
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Work Smarter, Commute Less, and Save the Planet
Posted on 16. Jul, 2009 by Ryan A.
Transportation-related emissions are the fastest growing green house gas emissions category in the United States. This includes commercial business, and personal travel as well as commuting. Transportation by car or by plane accounts for a little over 12% of the total green house emissions produced each year. Most of this travel is work related. Re-think your commute and find ways to reduce your carbon footprint.
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Developing a Web Application on a Shoestring Budget
Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Ryan A.
Web applications have taken over the web, to help us do everything from remember our daily chores, connect with our friends, or to play games. Virtually every modern website on the web today, uses some type of web application to help process and serve data. The popularity of web applications really started around the late [...]
