Comments on: Does improving collaboration depend on culture change? http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/10/16/does-improving-collaboration-depend-on-culture-change/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Whatever-ishere http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/10/16/does-improving-collaboration-depend-on-culture-change/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Whatever-ishere Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:52:48 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/10/16/does-improving-collaboration-depend-on-culture-change/#comment-409 thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful... thanks for the GREAT post! Very useful…

]]> By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/10/16/does-improving-collaboration-depend-on-culture-change/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Anonymous Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:20:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/10/16/does-improving-collaboration-depend-on-culture-change/#comment-385 I've tried to leverage collaboration tools with diverse groups large and small. I've tried to use them internally (wiki /self created intranet)...and externally (microsites/projects). I've found that very few folks, we'll call them "corporate" folks, are even willing to understand what these tools are. I even gave them options to communicate with the group in the workspace via email (emailing to the microsite vs. clogging the inbox and receiving the resulting streams via RSS). Nope. Too complicated. "Just email it". My response, "no can do". Anyway, it seems to take culture influencers from within the organization to spread the joy and effectiveness of collaboration. Is it culture or work practice then that make this work? I'd say it's about 50/50 -- Doug Mitchell I’ve tried to leverage collaboration tools with diverse groups large and small. I’ve tried to use them internally (wiki /self created intranet)…and externally (microsites/projects). I’ve found that very few folks, we’ll call them “corporate” folks, are even willing to understand what these tools are. I even gave them options to communicate with the group in the workspace via email (emailing to the microsite vs. clogging the inbox and receiving the resulting streams via RSS). Nope. Too complicated. “Just email it”. My response, “no can do”.

Anyway, it seems to take culture influencers from within the organization to spread the joy and effectiveness of collaboration. Is it culture or work practice then that make this work? I’d say it’s about 50/50

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Doug Mitchell

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