Every organization today has strategies in place for managing toward DX. They differ and are implemented w/ varying intensity, but any business…
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Agile DevOps: A Path to the Common Ground of Productivity
Agility has become the buzz word around the enterprise. whether it is agility around storage, networking, cloud operations, or most any…
Read MoreEmbedded Experiences Are Coming to the Browser
One of the most interesting and valuable developments in enterprise social software (ESS) over the last few years has been the introduction…
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Striking a balance between security and productivity — an impossible dream?
Security and personal productivity do not make comfortable bedfellows. To understand why goes to the roots of what business is all about. Business…
Read MoreOffice 2016 is Microsoft’s Post-Windows Breakthrough
Office 2016 has been reviewed in great detail by many market watchers, including Microsoft itself. But the release represents something much more…
Read MoreThe Return of Middle Managers
“That experiment broke. I just had to admit it.” — Ryan Carson, CEO of Treehouse Island, on his attempt to run the…
Read MoreMicrosoft is right: we need new ways to work, but is Gigjam the answer?
Microsoft has demoed a new technology, called Gigjam, an effort to change the way we think about getting work done in an…
Read MoreMicrosoft acquires Wunderlist
I always believed that a productivity toolset requires a task management capability, and Microsoft has just stepped up to the bar on…
Read MoreTransparency, immediacy and productivity: How IoT will rock your biz
The internet of things when applied to enterprises will take a lot of people out of business, will reduce the profitability of…
Read MoreBradley Horowitz is now running 2/3 of the former Google+
As reported last week, Hangouts, Photos, and Google+ are going to be considered as three independent product lines at Google, according to…
Read MoreMicrosoft dropping Facebook and Google Talk integrations in Outlook
It’s deja vu all over again. Microsoft is dropping support the Google Talk and Facebook chat integrations fom the Outlook.com email service…
Read MoreUnderstanding the failed promise of ‘social collaboration’
I’ve been using a phrase in my work with clients recently — the failed promise of social collaboration — and I thought…
Read MoreNadella will continue strategic acquisition of mobile productivity apps
Dina Bass at Bloomberg Business has been tipped by people familiar with Microsoft’s plans that Satya Nadella is planning to continue his acquisitions…
Read MoreNadella’s first year shows he’s staying ahead of the cloud/mobile wave
Satya Nadella has had a good first year as Microsoft CEO, pushing hard on his bet on a ‘mobile first, cloud first’ strategy.…
Read MoreShort takes: Peerio announces encrypted productivity suite, Quip improves onboarding
Nadim Kobeissi has announced Peerio, a secure messaging and file sharing solution, which encrypts email and files in transit and in the cloud.…
Read MoreCould you do your job without a smartphone or tablet? Or the web?
Social and mobile tools have become so important to our work that we basically can't do business without them. But is the web even more important?…
Read MoreMicrosoft announces Skype for Business, will retire Lync
Microsoft is trying to clarify what they mean when they say they’re a ‘productivity and platform’ company. Clearly, Microsoft has larger ambitions…
Read MoreEvernote gets $20M and a new source of contextual content from Japan’s Nikkei
The deal represents both a new capital investment for Evernote and the first international news source for its premium Context feature.…
Read MoreReddit adopts no remote work policy, moving staff to Silicon Valley
Reddit, the so-called front page of the Internet, has just recently raised $50 million in a series B round ($500 million valuation),…
Read MoreBuildings are tools, too, and cultural artifacts, as well
I saw that Yves Behar, the well-known designer, has been working with Herman Miller on something called the fuseproject, and one outcome…
Read MoreEx-Facebook CTO’s new app Quip releases new features, including expansive search
Cross-platform document collaboration app Quip, created by ex-Facebook CTO and engineer Brett Taylor, has released its new version with improved features.…
Read MoreBeneath the chatter about the Future Of Work lies a discontinuity
I have read at least ten articles and posts about the now-conventional notions about the future of work over the past few…
Read MoreIf I had a dollar: Can a buck spice up the classic task list?
Can a dollar buy a useful to-do list? Here are two apps worth trying out.…
Read MoreDropbox for Business is only the start: next, work management and office apps
Dropbox, the file sync-and-share company, has announced a major redesign of Dropbox for Business, based on allowing the connection of personal and…
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