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Blogging such a simple word with so many perceived meanings. The purpose here is for our employees to share their expressions, ideas, feelings, or thoughts at a specific time, on a topic that extends beyond their inner circle. The outcome is intended to make the topic more social, start a conversation and act as a resource for future discussions.
As businesses become increasingly dependent on their IT systems, solid communication between management and IT departments is paramount. It’s leadership’s role to identify the critical services from a high level and share them with the IT department. The IT department must in turn be accountable for making sure the services perform consistently at a high level with as little downtime as possible.
With the first month of 2011 in the books, are you still on track to make 2010 a year of real change for your organization? How will technology play a role?
These questions are being asked right now by most organizations around the world who are looking to either protect or grow their market share. All organizations big or small, and even the IT consulting and delivery companies that support them, all need to look at what they can do better, and how they can provide a better product.
When technology challenges present themselves, they have the potential of negatively impacting your ability to do your job. When these issues occur, you call in the IT professionals. Unfortunately, internal IT departments are often perceived as overloaded, under-manned and under-appreciated, so dealing directly with them can be more of a challenge than the technical problem itself. This is how IT departments and “computer people” get a bad name, and why most people try to avoid getting them involved at any cost.
As I start to read the articles about the departure of Google Wave as a standalone offering I reflect on my collaboration experiences while riding the wave. When it was first rolled out and Lars Rasmussen talked about the new communication and collaboration tool, I was quite excited and embraced the invitation to use this ground breaking communication / collaboration platform. It’s hard to believe it was only a year ago, and at the time it seemed to have been hyped to deflate the Bing launch. Regardless, I jumped right in.
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