Category: Workplace

  • How to recognize the digital native

    One theme Shel and I have discussed quite a few times on the FIR podcast is the different behaviours younger people exhibit in how they communicate compared to the traditional behaviours in the workplace. We have a terrific example –…

  • Communication and IT: Still an uneasy alliance

    Dee Rambeau presents a depressing workplace scenario that, in my experience, was all too common ten to twelve years ago as everyone began discovering the web as a business tool. The scenario is broadly to do with who makes decisions…

  • Employee engagement and the bottom line

    If you need evidence of the relationship between how employees feel about their employer – part of the way of looking at ’employee engagement’ – and the company’s financial performance, the Financial Times has a case study feature that illustrates…

  • Pay attention to Gartner’s hype cycle

    IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2006 hype cycle for emerging technologies this week – their predictions on what they think will be hot technologies in the near future, and what won’t be. These predictions form part of the hype…

  • activeCollab looks promising

    I’ve never been very good with project management tools. Most I’ve used seem too complex for my taste and never that easy to understand and use. Until now, my main experience has been with Microsoft Project. Yet my experience with…