I didn’t know what to expect going into the 2018 Boye-co conference. The fact that the conference was in the Danish town of Aarhus, not the most famous of conference towns, should have given me a hint as to the special nature of this festival, which in hindsight seems to be a more accurate word than conference.
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Too often we don’t find what we are looking for when using the organization’s own search application. Whether it’s on the corporate site or the intranet. As a result, we waste time, scrolling for the content or fleeing back to Google, because we accept a somewhat saddening fact; that Google has a seemingly better overview of our content than anyone in our own organization.
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Despite billions of pounds of investment in technology and organisational change across the private and public sector, managers and employees can feel that ‘transformation’ is an unachievable ideal. By its very nature, transformation should be finite – with a beginning, middle and end. And both managers and employees should be able to see the progression at every stage.
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If you google “communication tips”, you will get a large number of articles such as “Three ways to use [insert latest hot digital tool]”. While simple tips like these are great, they usually won’t help you beyond the current season. In times of constant change, we also need something more substantial that we can strive towards.
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Every transformation effort requires a strategy - a plan for the activities and a clear vision to make it happen. When it comes to sustainable change, teams require a structured and systematic approach to ensure that people, processes, and technology are considered. Taking this broader view ensures that we think past common obstacles and shift thinking past a “project mentality”, into a “practice mentality”.
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It’s in the name: Enterprise social networks. Tools for the workplace that facilitate enterprise-wide collaboration. A place for everyone to connect to anyone.
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What tools are you using to communicate and collaborate in your organization? If you are like me and many others, you have at some point turned to unofficial channels, even though you have several official tools at your disposal.
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