Category: Workplace

  • The thrill and heartache of BlackBerry: employee perspectives

    Whether Canadian mobile technology company BlackBerry has a viable future or not is still a big unknown. The company fell from grace during this year as sales of its smartphones plummeted in the face of competition from Apple and Android…

  • The social networking workplace conundrum

    A conversation yesterday with someone whose employer blocks access to Facebook and other sites on the social web highlights a real conundrum with such bans, as Scott Adams perceptively illustrates in yesterday’s Dilbert comic strip. Many employers cite time-wasting as…

  • Re-imagining the retail banking experience

    Retail banking in the UK is set for a radical change in how customers use branches, and what their experiences are like, over the next five years. The Telegraph reports that some major banks are thinking about introducing “express” branches,…

  • How to accelerate culture change

    Are you of the school of thought that changing organization culture is a complex, linear, time-consuming process, one that typically would take years to plan and execute? A process that requires courage to break down silos and is firmly a…

  • Introducing "FIR presents Linked Conversations with Chuck Hester"

    The FIR Podcast Network is pleased to announce a new podcast focused on getting the most from the LinkedIn business network that will begin later this month. Presenter Chuck Hester explains… I’ve known Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson for many…