The Planner collaborative task management tool found in Office 365 is a bit of an underused gem. It's certainly worth calling attention to, particularly after an initial Office 365 launch when people have got used to the basics of OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, etc.
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A few years ago, Google was said to divide users into repetitive, bored and urgent. "Repetitive" users are monitoring: a stock price or weather, for example. "Bored" users are killing time, and "urgent" users need specific things like directions to an airport, fast.
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“The network, rather than organizational units, processes or hierarchies, is the main architecture of work” — Esko Kilpi Hierarchy has a bad reputation. It hangs out with bureaucracy and is a known associate of that miscreant inflexibility. I’m here to say that in a digital age we might actually
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Three minutes. That's how long it takes before someone complains how awful search is during one of the employee focus groups I run for clients on their digital workplaces. It comes up even if it isn't what I asked about.
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Consumer and workplace chatbots share the same technology, but there are some fundamental differences between the two. Consumer chatbots tend to be narrower in focus and deal with high volumes of shallow requests.
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Here's a paradox for you: although the majority of enterprise intranets are built on SharePoint, SharePoint historically has had few built-in features that perform basic intranet functions.
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The market for SharePoint add-ons that give intranet functionality is growing rapidly, not just in the number of options but also the number of companies rolling them out. Each year I lead a review of the SharePoint Intranets in-a-box marketplace. The reports reflect the growth in the market: the first report in 2016 covered
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At the end of the book “The Dilbert Principle,” Scott Adams writes, “Some people think that because I cleverly mock current management methods I must have some excellent ideas that I am selfishly keeping to myself.
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There’s nothing like a seasonal break to get people thinking about quitting their company and joining the gig economy. This mode of work is growing vigorously, at a rate of roughly 27 percent more than payroll employees according to one U.S. study.
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Reading one of Sam Marshall's articles gives his readers an opportunity to step back and see the topic at hand in full: both the good and the bad. Marshall willingly gives praise when called for, but tempers any praise by noting where there's still room for improvement.
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