On Friday’s I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. They believe the current generation of products is still struggling with the engagement and work focus part of collaboration. Jostle believes that whereas the consumer web is about peer-2-peer, enterprise collaboration is more about groups and teams. These types of tools are: Disruptive to implement, until you get mass collaboration this isn’t really effective. MORE >>

Gallup estimates the cost of America’s disengagement crisis at a staggering $300 billion in lost productivity annually. I keep reading a lot of articles written by my peers in the space who continuously stress the non-human factors which influence collaboration. However what we should instead be looking at is how collaboration can solve some of the problems mentioned above. Could the single greatest metric for the success of emergent collaboration be company morale or employee attitudes? Collaboration Enterprise 2.0 Social Business MORE >>

'In my book, The Collaborative Organization , I featured a maturity model that Chess Media Group created based on our client experience and research. Organizations typically fall into one of five types of categories when it comes to collaboration in the enterprise. Meaning, they are not really up to speed on what is happening around collaboration and the future of work; they just don’t know what they don’t know. The opportunity and the upside for emergent collaboration here are great. The organization is now educated on emergent collaboration. MORE >>

When it comes to deploying a collaboration solution for the enterprise there are a lot of things to consider especially when it comes to budgets. Need to Take Strategy Seriously ,” which looked at data collected from a 2009 report on collaboration. Collaboration ” and one of the topics we looked at was budget allocation. For example, a good starting point for this discussion can look at the following variables: technology costs. training and education costs. integration costs. internal marketing costs. support costs. MORE >>

Every Friday I’ll be reviewing a vendor in the emergent collaboration space and will provide an overview on that vendor which includes aspects from leadership and vision to technology and market focus. Newsgator believes that collaboration technologies and the changes in the ways that people work are changing very quickly. Standard support is during business hours and is covered by purchase costs. There are also annual support and maintenance costs which run 22% of the annual contract (when the platform is purchased perpetually instead of annually). Support. Pricing. MORE >>