If your business environment is like most these days, a growing number of your employees are spending more and more cumulative time in Slack (or a different collaboration platform) for team-based internal communications instead of using email. If you are […]
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This is Women’s History Month and I think it is important to highlight companies that are going the extra mile. Cisco stands out because—unlike most tech companies, where diversity is in the lower ranks—Cisco is diverse at the top. Cisco
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Well it was due to happen. First we had Siri and Cortana on our phones and PCs, then Alexa invaded our homes and now Cisco is pushing their Spark Assistant into offices and I’m kind of surprised why it took
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It’s a tale as old as the Internet. Essential basics of human interaction get lost in the flash and promise of technology. Time and again, we must take a step back, reconnect, and make sure the technology is serving us,
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In 1995, a group of engineers based in Berlin, Germany got together in a shared space that would enable them to meet and work together on a regular basis. C-base was a hacker community that recognized the benefits of collaboration
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When organizations arrange teams around specific roles, silos often start to crop up—leading to poor communication and weak cross-departmental support. In fact, 86 percent of employees and executives view insufficient communication and lack of collaboration as causes of workplace failures.
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DevOps—a cross-disciplinary, collaborative practice that blends software development and information technology operations—aims to build, test, and deliver software both more quickly and reliably. It involves the entire project lifecycle, from the early stages of planning through production support efforts. The
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One of the primary challenges of cybersecurity is the conflict between perception and reality. Many executives and IT professionals will say without hesitation that they feel their computer and network security is solid even though there is often little-if any–evidence
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Sharing and collaboration and open platforms are all great–but inevitably security will become an issue. Atlassian recently introduced new security features for Bitbucket to help organizations restrict access and protect sensitive code from unauthorized access. Collaboration is part of the
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New research into the communications challenges that emergency room employees face every day in our nation’s hospitals and medical facilities reveals patient care suffers when manual processes are used. A new report “Care Communication Gaps in U.S. Hospital Emergency Departments”
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