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Your social intranet is where work gets done – Lars Plougmann

This post by Lars Plougmann is cross posted from the Dachis Group blog. When an organization launches a social intranet, the changes and benefits reach far wider than freeing up resource in the central intranet team. The intranet undergoes a fundamental shift when focus changes from communication to employees to work. The social intranet adds value to… read full post

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My observations from the sidelines: Gov 2.0 Conference

I’ve heard some mixed feedback about the recent CeBIT Government 2.0 conference, which was held in Canberra at the beginning of the month. I think part of the problem continues to be the gap between the engaged (some of whom are also more than quite immersed) and those still exploring the topic. This can create… read full post

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Social Business Design: Pathways to Success – Tue 23rd November, 2010

Everyone is talking about social media, social networks, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter but not many people are discussing how to be a socially designed business. A social business is one where we use the opportunities presented by new technologies to deliver business value – to reduce costs, increase effectiveness or mitigate risks. Come along to… read full post

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Two Australian examples of Socialtext helping to transform organisations

Here in the southern hemisphere, you have to keep you eyes open for good case studies of local organisations taking advantage of the technologies that can enable them to become socially designed businesses. My friends at Socialtext recently pointed out a couple of interesting local examples: Hayes Knight – they use a combination of Socialtext… read full post

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Serious games for business and education

I’ve never been a big online game player (the third world bandwidth here in Australia has been enough to discourage many like me). But, having observed the development of online games and the gamer communities since the early days of the internet, I can see clearly that this is a significant phenomenon. One need only… read full post

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The business of being agile

Recently I noted several large businesses announcing proudly they had adopted Agile development techniques – for example Suncorp, NBN Co, Allianz, Jemena. There is a pattern to the adoption of a new methodology within an organisation. I have lived through the adoption of a number of new methodologies over the years at various companies, for example: Six Sigma,Total Quality Management, Lean, Capability… read full post

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