In a study by the Information Worker Productivity Council in 2004 they found that the average knowledge worker: Spent 3 hours and 14 minutes a day using technologies to process work-related information—just over 40% of an 8-hour work day, the details follow, they: Devoted 1.58 hours/day to e-mail (49% of the...
A study was conducted in a software engineering company, which was already above the norm in terms of efficiency. The Trial consisted of 7 teams who were co-located compared with the rest (more) who used audio, video and application sharing. The co-located teams averaged double the output and reduced time...
I am a big believer in the improvement for businesses that can be achieved by improving productivity. I still see this as a largely untapped area of savings. what! you are probably saying at this point is Steve talking about, every last bit of productivity improvement has been driven out of processes...
I will be interested to see the full research report, but it’s no surprise to me that Frost & Sullivan found this when they surveyed 946 information technology and line-of-business decision-makers. My personal feeling is that there is a huge difference in the effectiveness of individuals that can be attributed...
I just came across a great essay by Ross Mayfield on the Power Law of Participation. Ross provides an excellent way to visualise the different thresholds for participation and this is really important because it talks to the fact that people don’t have the time and energy to do everything,...
When I worked on a LAN my team used file systems extensively and we had a very effective working practice, as follows: We all had laptops We all stored our master data on our laptops We all stored our published files on a collaboration server The work in progress (WIP) area on...
Graham thinks the file server is dead, I’m not totally convinced – here’s why before anyone starts complaining, the following lists are not intended to be complete, only illustrative, please add additional items via comments if you are so motivated. pretty much every application supports storing it’s file based data...
I am excited about the new Records Management functionality in SharePoint 2007, it should allow a neat separation between the loosely managed collaborative spaces that SharePoint already does fairly well and the need for tightly controlled management of business records. In that context I was pleased to see a new...
The idea seems to be to use a single client to manage all of a teams interactions around a specific activity. It seems like a great idea in principle, although I have a few concerns about how it will work in practice: I am worried that the process of publishing...
Since I started working from home I think my IM client has become my most important application. I use Trillian Pro which in my case integrates with Skype, Sametime, MSN and AOL. I use IM much more than I use email and the history features in Trillian are absolutely essential...