productivity

Should the CIO Ban Email?

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I was at a conference last week where I heard about a CIO who is banning email. Looks like we’re not finished having a conversation about how email is hampering employee productivity. What tools and techniques can CIOs employ to improve enterprise communications in the face of a proliferation of channels? Is trading email for social collaboration tools the answer or do we need to change employee behavior? How about using the right tools at […]

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Measure What Really Matters

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I ran across a very interesting op-ed by Tim Jackson on productivity today in the New York Times. The gist of his well-articulated argument is that due to our relentless drive for increased output, certain professions and their attendant tasks…

How Does IT Impact Business Productivity?

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Print PDF Guest post by Nalneesh Gaur Nick Carr’s controversial article on "IT doesn’t matter" published in 2003 noted that infrastructure technology is easily copied thus providing no competitive advantage. Yet, savvy businesses continue to pursue technology innovations to gain competitive advantages or improve business productivity in order to provide greater shareholder value, growth, and stability. Businesses that drive consistent productivity improvements have recognized the linkage between the need to drive innovation and discretionary spend […]

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Week of Tweets – 27 Dec. 2010 – 2 Jan. 2011

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Every week I read / react to lot of tweets / posts dealing with a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content to be found on the web that can be of interest to many of my kinds. My only regrets is that I hardly keep memories of these interesting thoughts / information. This blog […]