Successful Workplace

It’s tax time again.  Every year, the government leaves billions on the table because people don’t pay what they should.  The British government is tackling part of this problem with a low cost solution that shows a £2000 return for every £1 spent. I’ll take a 2000:1 return any day. The idea is based around […]

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 […]

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 […]

Enterprise change program are dead. This is the year of the Engagement Program. The predictions for 2013 are coming in thick and fast. We know technologies such as mobile, cloud and big data have been making the news and that the Internet of Things is the new darling of the analyst community and application platform […]

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 […]

We’ve watched so many ideas move from the consumer world to the workplace in the past several years. Search, iPhones, apps, and social networks have all become standard in the enterprise. The consumerization of IT has had a major impact on the the working world and there’s no reason to believe it is over. So […]

There’s very good news on the social front for some companies…social media is unlocking the creativity of marketing. There are many great ways to place product, and below is a brilliant example. Coke is teamed up with the latest 007 Bond film, Skyfall.  They realize they need to get the public to be the stars […]

I’m a content management expert, steeped in technology, and also a drummer in the band Mama’s Joy. In Los Angeles, this isn’t a rare combo. For the past few years, my friend Howard and I have been running a site called Thomas Hampton Reviews. We had different reasons for creating the site. Howard was encouraged […]