Skip to content The Cube Home About us Speaking/Training Contact us Pitch us Subscribe Survey results: The top Twitter tools and apps 06/10/2010 tags: Twitter tools and apps by Gemma Went This is the second in the series of results that came out of my tools and apps survey a few weeks ago. The survey was broken into the following categories: General social media tools Twitter tools Other digital tools Organisational tools What did we miss? The first post covered general social media tools. These people work in a range of sectors across various job roles, which surprised me. MORE >>

95 percent of these (surveyed) managers failed to recognize that progress in meaningful work is the primary motivator, well ahead of traditional incentives like raises and bonuses. 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? Social Business MORE >>

It’s also a call for collaboration. Collaboration is one of the ideas we encounter a lot in a social business context. However, in this case, I call upon YOUR collaboration. This morning I launched the idea of c reating a collaborative (e)Book on social business on Twitter, it seemed to interest people, despite the day and time. First of all, to show the power of collaboration. mention them because they did quite an exhaustive survey on social business with Deloitte. technology enabled crowd sourcing or collaborations in virtual reality). MORE >>

Collaboration ” report which collected survey responses from 234 executives and decision makers implementing these collaborative solutions in their workplace. Business managers and IT managers are beginning to work more closely together to co-own and co-sponsor emergent collaboration initiatives. Despite this trend, business units independently own and sponsor emergent collaboration projects twice as frequently as IT departments. Financial drivers are not the primary justification for an emergent collaboration initiative. collaboration report MORE >>

Would you collaborate with a competitor? Most organizations would think that collaborating with competitors would not be to their competitive advantage. To achieve tangible result we must learn to collaborate around the intangible values. Robert Thomas states in his article “ Collaboration as an Intangible Asset ” in HBR:   Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate. Collaboration is about learning together. Most won’t. MORE >>