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How Much Talent Do You Get Out of Each Employee?

“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th Century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the...

0 replies - 399 views - 06/06/13 by David Austin in Articles

Why it's so important to work out loud

I have to credit Thyda Nhek for introducing me to this phrase (who may have heard it from John Stepper), but ever since she mentioned it, it has stuck with...

0 replies - 263 views - 06/06/13 by Jive Community in Articles

Altimeter report on the collaborative economy

The so called sharing economy has been growing for some time now. The philosophy is a simple one. Rather than buy a product outright, you share it with other...

0 replies - 219 views - 06/06/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Good governance signals right mobile direction

In my previous post in this series on mobile ‘Why you need a mobile strategy‘ I said mobile is one of the key drivers for the transformation of...

0 replies - 485 views - 06/05/13 by Mark Morrell in Articles

Gamification market to be worth $5.5bn by 2018

Gamification is certainly one of the buzzwords of 2013 so far.  A new report has attempted to predict the size of the gamification market in the...

0 replies - 624 views - 06/05/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Turkey’s Prime Minister and that pesky social media

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has officially blamed, drunks, extremists and Twitter for the ills that Turkey is facing with protestors in...

0 replies - 170 views - 06/05/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

Move Your Feet

The advice to walk around in the organization is often presented under the Japanese name Gemba, which says that one ought to be there where people are...

0 replies - 147 views - 06/05/13 by Jurgen Appelo in Articles

Report Looks at How to Improve Employee Engagement

A few weeks ago I wrote about some new research by Insead business school looking at how to effectively disseminate the strategy of an organisation to...

0 replies - 2087 views - 06/04/13 by David Austin in Articles

Eric Schmidt on disruptive technologies

Last month McKinsey produced a fascinating report on 12 disruptive technologies that they believed would fundamentally change society. They've followed up the...

0 replies - 479 views - 06/04/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Gamification as a Certifiable Skill

We all know that Gamification has made a big and quick impact in the Business world over the past few years. This, of course, is not a new concept in...

0 replies - 427 views - 06/04/13 by Jive Community in Articles

Can you predict how many times a tweet will be retweeted?

A year ago some researchers at MIT believed they had stumbled across the secret behind why tweets get shared.  They narrowed it down to a list of ten...

0 replies - 150 views - 06/04/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

6 tips for intranet teams

Mobile and social concepts and technologies are rapidly redefining knowledge work and transforming our digital work environments, including intranets....

0 replies - 141 views - 06/04/13 by Oscar Berg in Articles

Is the future of blogging automated?

The infinite monkey theorum suggests that if you sat monkeys at a typewriter for long enough, they would eventually write something comparable to...

0 replies - 596 views - 06/03/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

Key Learnings from Gamification course (Coursera)

I posted that I had completed the wonderful Gamification course on Coursera.  Ryan Rutan suggested it might be worth sharing a couple of key learnings,...

0 replies - 664 views - 06/03/13 by Jive Community in Articles

Tim Cook on collaboration

Back in April Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the 25th anniversary of the MBA at Duke's Fuqua Business School. Of particular note are his views on collaboration. ...

0 replies - 385 views - 06/03/13 by Adi Gaskell in Articles