Email to survive for some time
Andrew McAfee has been blogging recently on coexistence of email and enterprise 2.0/collaboration type tools in the enterprise. His hypothesis is: ‘Within organizations, collaboration technologies are dictated by the most powerful person involved in the collaboration’. And following on from this, given the number of CEO’s wedded to email, would seem that email will continue [...]
Patient doctor collaboration
Interesting post on project healthdesign: The Doctor’s Role in a Health 2.0 World. Describing the patient as the ceo for his own body ie he takes responsibility, while the doctro is described as the consultant – advising the patient, seems like a good model, which reinforces the idea that the patient needs to manage his [...]
Are we for real? Who is running the banks in Ireland?
How does a government lend €3.5Bn to a Bank which is worth €300m and not take control? Last week we saw the appointment of a new CEO at Bank of Ireland. Obviously he was seen within the Bnk as the best man for the job – and he may well be. But the Bank is [...]
Culture to support wikis and knowledge management
The wiki provides the opportunity to promote knowledge management. But are our senior executives ready to participate in this web 2.0 enabled environment? email has, to some extent, made people more available (though it may be argued that a certain amount of hiding has been facilitated) e.g. the junior staffer may directly email the CEO. [...]
Damning assessment of Irish Economy
By Barry O'Gorman on March 21, 2009
Dan O’Brien (senior Editor & Economist, the Economist Intelligence unit) did not hold back in his call to action in his article in the Irish Times yesterday. O’Brien is a well known face to the Irish public – through his regular appearances on Prime Time. Clearly he is very fearful for the outlook for the [...]
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