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Warren Te Brugge on Shifting Mindsets

A guiding design principal for our Jostle People Engagement™ platform is to allow people, content and location to dance, always within tight context of each other. And we are all about unifying organizations and amplifying their culture. So we loved this post by Warren Te Brugge, a Principal at Manzimvula, a consulting firm that helps companies …

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Paul Hebert on “White Space Activities”

Enabling the white space has worked marvels in my past, helping quickly ramp up large, complex teams. It was one of the key observations that led to the creation of the concepts behind Jostle – that much can be accomplished when people can clearly see, align with and help those around them. Below Paul Hebert …

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Jamie Notter “Making Silos Work”

Jamie Notter is a VP at Management Solutions Plus. He leads their consulting division and helps clients solve tough problems, build internal capacity, and amplify leadership. Jamie also authored the interesting book “Humanize: How people-centric organizations succeed in a social world”. His ideas build on the theme of “Silos for Good not Evil” and are reproduced …

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Want to accelerate change? Embrace the org chart (John Stepper)

John Stepper drives adoption of collaboration and social media platforms at Deutsche Bank in New York. From this unique perspective, he maintains an active blog of his personal observations on the adoption of collaboration and social media in the enterprise. His recent post on the interplay between networks and the hierarchy is reproduced below. _____ …

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Chris Collison “In Defence of Silos”

Chris Collison is an expert on knowledge management and organizational effectiveness, operating an independent management consultancy in the UK. He is also the author of “No More Consultants” and “Learning to Fly“. Here is an extract from Chris’ recent blog “In Defence of Silos“… ___ So is the presence of silos always a bad thing? …

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5 Great things about silos

ClearBox Consulting Ltd. is a UK-based consultancy that’s passionate about making the workplace a better experience, helping companies better connect, communicate and collaborate. ClearBox is run by Sam Marshall, former Global Intranet Manager for Unilever. Here is his take on the power of organizational silos, cross-posted from the ClearBox blog. September 7, 2011 by Sam …

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From traditional business to social business

This is an extract from an article written by Christoph Schmaltz (@christoph), a consultant at Dachis Group and headshift. You can read the full article here and here. …From Hierarchy to Network A traditional business has a rigid top-down communication structure. News from the top is passed down through the ranks of the organisation. The middle …

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Is Google+ Circles Sustainable?

In an earlier post I observed that Google+ Circles is a simple and elegant way to manage contacts and functions just as email lists have always functioned. The circle metaphor and UI design are lovely, but will it pass the test of sustained use? I see some significant challenges: 1. Managing your circles is a …

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Google+ Circles: A contact management tool, not a new social network!

I’ll admit it, as a designer, I’m strongly attracted to shiny new things. In the design community, Google+ Circles is producing the most glare and getting a tremendous amount of attention for its interaction design. These days, it’s nearly impossible to read a tweet or blog post without stumbling across a mention of it. Some …

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Dee McCrorey interviews Jostle CEO Brad Palmer

In July, over 1000 futurists converged on Vancouver for the World Future conference. We were invited to join their Tech Cocktails event to explain how the Jostle organizational platform is changing enterprise teamwork and collaboration. Needless to say, we got some very interesting input from the futurists! Live at the event, Dee McCrorey  interviewed me… Dee …

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