One can never have too much of a good thing. And knowing a good thing when you see it is a good thing in itself. Collaboration with a strategic purpose is a good thing for the willing and those paying attention to the simple fact that businesses are […]
“If you thought collaborating with the humans was hard, wait till you get assigned to a job that requires you to collaborate with a robot” If we are to believe an increasing number of recent headlines then we are going to see robots coming: to take our jobs. […]
One sure sign that collaboration is becoming an indispensable part of business strategy for smart businesses that understand competitive advantage, is an increasing investment in collaboration-focused technology. A very exciting aspect of this is immersive technology. How technology might shape collaboration is yet to be seen. Ultimately it […]
“Collaboration is good business”. So asserts Forbes’ contributor Erica Dhawan in “The Secret Weapon For Collaboration”; an article that is included this edition of recommended reading. That simple message is worth repeating as we know that collaboration thrives when the right culture is in place. And, as with […]
Every year various major business consulting firms or some such influencers issue a list of emerging jobs or jobs that will be future professions. Many are quite entertaining, for instance; Simplicity Expert, Robot Counsellor, Head Monster, Locationists, Privacy Manager and so on. In most cases they are not […]
Those were the words uttered by a robot computer in a short, science fiction story by the legendary Isaac Asimov. The storyline is placed in distant 2061, but its relevance is timeless. Regardless of your literary interest, reading Asimov is much more than science fiction. It’s about ideas […]
It’s tempting to start with ‘in the future…’ but the reality is that even future is not what it used to be. Anticipation of a distant time and place seems to be less, well, ‘anticipatory’. It’s hard to get surprised any more. In fact we increasingly talk about […]
In all honesty, the supply of good examples about how well collaboration works is almost endless. When I say good examples, I do not exclusively mean great collaboration stories. It is more about facets of collaboration that can be valuable to an increasing number of people who recognise […]
[An algorithm is a sequence of computational steps that transform input into output.] * For some time now I have been convinced that the future of sustainable social and economic enterprise will be in small entities that are better connected, rather than large entities who are rich in […]
It is May 2014. I just sat down to have my first coffee and check the news of the day. I am keen to see what the 2014/15 Federal Government budget announcement will reveal. I find that an Office for Collaboration has been established and that it will […]
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