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SharePoint is unquestionably a success from a licensing perspective, but dig behind the firewall and the picture looks more chequered. For example in a uSamp survey last year, 80 percent of organizations using SharePoint said employees continue to share documents as email attachments. Recently, the UK Met Office abandoned a twoyear SharePoint implementation project in favor of the cloud-based Huddle service. Even where SharePoint is used, people aren't truly collaborating with it. Team sites are often really document graveyards where content is stored once collaboration has stopped.

"Tullow Oil, a London-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company, regularly wins awards for its innovative approach to problem solving. Its business culture is based on investing in the best people and then trusting them to work together to keep Tullow on the leading edge of the industry. Tullow's CIO recently challenged his team to develop an approach to devolve control of IT project prioritization to non-IT leaders within the company. This article explains the approach developed and how it is working to keep the business's IT strategy aligned with Tullow's entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to collaborative decision making."

Article for BIR - June 2015 issue Heuristics, the science of decision making.

"'Knowledge creation trumps knowledge transfer' 'Diversity trumps ability' 'Diversity across firms trumps diversity within companies' These are some of the themes explored in this interesting article from Business Week Magazine. The Las Vegas casino Hurrahs is tapping into the power of prediction markets specifically to innovate. The importance of particular kinds of diversity are also explored. If you want to know more about Prediction Markets, we are building a considerable KIN resource on this here and the KIN Quarterly Workshop on 2nd December will cover this topic. Thanks go to Jenny Ambrozek for pointing out this fascinating article. "

Harrah's, the casino entertainment company, is beginning to explore how to create commercially useful knowledge by applying a much-hyped knowledge management tool-prediction markets-in a very new contex

" 'Knowledge creation trumps knowledge transfer' 'Diversity trumps ability' 'Diversity across firms trumps diversity within companies' These are some of the themes explored in this interesting article on how the Las Vegas casino Hurrahs is tapping into the power of prediction markets specifically to innovate. Thanks to Jenny Ambrozek for pointing this article out."

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 users to 100, or 1000? Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts and guide the growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that might hinder growth - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.

Some useful patterns to promote wiki adoption, what to do what not to do. Very people focused rather than technology focused

This paper presents the outcome of a study conducted at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in which a prediction market was established in order to forecast demand for services. To the researcher's knowledge, it does not appear that prediction markets have been previously utilized in a healthcare environment.

With the advent of Web 2.0, numerous social software applications allow people to publish and share information on the Internet. Two of these types of applications - collaborative workspaces and social network sites - have a number of features in common, which are explored to provide a basis for comparative analysis.

For his new book, communications coach Carmine Gallo watched hours of Jobs' keynotes. Here he identifies the five elements of every presentation by the Apple CEO.

it took decades for saddle makers and carriage builders to adjust to the disruptive rise of the automobile. In contrast, travel agents had less than five years to rechart their careers after Expedia, Orbitz and other travel sites took hold. Financial planners? Mammography technicians? Once the software programmers get their algorithms right, these and many other jobs could disappear or change very in the relative blink of an eye.