Successful Workplace

Following on from the LinkedIn INfluencer posts today we thought it would be interesting for the authors of Successful Workplace to share exactly the same, after all it’s not exclusive. So here goes: We work from a combination of home office and corporate offices. Each has its highs and lows, but there are two ways […]

Following on from the LinkedIn INfluencer posts today I thought it would be interesting for the authors of Successful Workplace to share exactly the same, after all it’s not exclusive. So here goes; The nature of what I do, between consulting, advising and writing, means I can basically throw a hat and where it lands […]

The following is a guest post by Toby Beresford. Toby is founder of Leaderboarded.com a tool to create multi-variable leaderboards from both business and social data. He can be reached at @tobyberesford. At the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, a smaller British fleet routed a larger  French one, destroying 22 French ships without a single British vessel […]

Sometimes you read something that is so provocative that you go sleep thinking about and even wake with it in your head. For me, it was Jon Evans, writing in Tech Crunch, making the statement America Has Hit “Peak Jobs”.  Evans believes the gulf between the haves and have nots will increase and that the […]

I couldn’t sleep last night. Something to do with too much Red Bull. Anyway, I digress because my mind wandered to the subject of managing unstructured, ad hoc and mainly paper/ email based processes that are mainly in the domain of the “Knowledge Worker” and then it dawned on me that there is another community […]

Here’s a pre-coffee morning thought and following on from recent posts about enterprise social here on Successful Workplace: with social creating a wave through the business process space, removing silos and increasing collaboration in the enterprise, does this mean that specialised and centralised functions like a Center of Excellence should no longer exist ? Two sides of the coin […]

Sometimes change is so gradual yet so ubiquitous that we don’t see the enormous implications of what’s really happened until somebody says it in a new way. I recently had such an experience when I read Google’s Michael Jones on How Maps Became Personal in the Atlantic.  A lot of the ideas in this piece jumped […]

Facebook yesterday unveiled it’s somewhat lackluster (for the consumer) new feature to the public called Graph Search, a way of using the data stored in it’s social network to find out more about people using connections, places, photos and interests as search parameters. While this is a big yawn for most (and perhaps another privacy cat and […]

Watching the Enterprise Social trends emerge has raised interesting questions, not only in terms of the new technology as an enabler but how the enterprise makeup is going to look and operate in the future. Having been involved in many transformation programs, it always amazes me to see the same top-down hierarchical business operating models applied […]

It was only a few years ago that Second Life was all the rage. I thought it was a fad that passed, but now I realize it just morphed into reality. If you watch cartoons you’ll have seen Regular Show. It’s quite surreal but there’s an episode where the ‘Warden of the Internet’ warns that viral […]

The following is a guest post by Richard McMunn, founder of How2become. McMunn established the company in 2005 while working as a Fire Officer for Kent Fire & Rescue Service. Since writing his first book on how to become a firefighter, Richard has gone on to author various titles spanning across multiple careers . The […]

A year is a lot of time given the pace with which things are happening on Social Media. Yet, 2013 is likely to be the year when more organizations than ever in the past, got a sense of the great potential Social Media holds – both  in terms of establishing and fanning that powerful relationship […]

One of the most popular blogs today on Forbes is 3 Reasons You Should Quit Social Media in 2013. The reasons were listed as, 1) Harm to self-esteem, 2) Your blood pressure will thank you, and, 3) Online is no substitute for offline. Good arguments were made for each that are something to think about. […]

If you haven’t watched a movie with a teenager, you’re missing out on a highly visible trend that at first seems annoying: Second screening. Their heads are down and their phones are in their hands as they glance up at the screen only occasionally to see what’s happening. Are they on Facebook, Twitter, somewhere else? […]

I recently interviewed Matt on his thoughts on BPM, Enterprise Social and where it’s all heading for the future. Matt has been the President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board since founding Appian in 1999. Mr. Calkins also serves on the MicroStrategy Board of Directors. He has a B.A. with honors in Economics from Dartmouth, […]

Everyone is talking about Gamification. Even the aging analyst crowd are picking up their Atari 2600 controllers and dusting off a copy of Pitfall to get in on the act. It’s providing a welcome distraction just now and in fact it’s the very antithesis of doing work if in the wrong hands. And this is where […]