In the last post I described an example of a co-located team functioning effectively across time, which can create its own kind of distance. In their book The Distance Manager, Kimball Fisher and Mareen Duncan Fisher identify six different types of virtual teams based on different combinations of time, distance and culture. I will address [...]
Posts under ‘Organizational Culture Change’
Web 2.0 Strategy: How to Get Started in Your Organization
City of Ottawa Case Study: Part 1 of 4
Chris Wightman is an intense and sincere man who’s wry humour becomes obvious as you speak with him. He needs it as he has a daunting task ahead of him: to introduce Web 2.0 technology to the vast (over 15,000 employees) and disparate (100’s of business units) [...]
Web 2.0 in Your Organization: Are You Ready?
So you have decided that it is time to bring Web 2.0 to your organization. How do you get started? As with any culture change, there are a few key principles to keep in mind before you wade in there. For shifting to Web 2.0 involves an organizational culture change, as I’ll be describing in [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Organizations typically do not make effective use of their workforce. There is a lot of untapped (and trapped) potential lurking in those cubicles and on the shop floor. People dying to contribute, add value, enjoy meaningful work, trapped (at the bottom, middle, yes even the top) in the organizational structure. Enterprise 2.0 collaborative software promises [...]
