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That could be a useful way of helping people migrate, but it can also just let them keep the same bad habits and just work the same way, only their documents are now stored in a different server.

Excellent article from McKinsey about how web 2.0 tools can improve productivity and efficiency in the company. They are also very well explaining difference between participation and collaboration, which we are ourselves explaining it for many years. It's good to see this difference recognized. The different categories are very well explained also. But one of the key point of this article in the introduction of workflow tecnologies in this area. McKinsey is saying that workflow + participatory technologies is a key enhancer for the company. We agree of course with this, first because companies need both world, and second because providing automation and participation capabilities to the information system is the best way to improve it drastically.

The cross-section of HR and more mathematical / data - based approaches and social networking platforms bring interesting and perhaps controversial angles to the space that we are discussing: "... The chart looks like colorful pop-art doughnuts flying through space. The message, though, is anything but playful. Based on a mathematical analysis of work at an undisclosed Internet company, each circle represents an employee. Those who generate or pass along valuable information within the company are portrayed as large and dark-colored. And the others? "On a relative scale, they don't add a hell of a lot," says Elizabeth Charnock, chief executive of Cataphora, the Redwood City (Calif.) company that carried out the study for a client. The upshot for managers faced with a mandate to downsize: Small and pale circles might be a good place to start cutting."

We are using SocialWok from inception, it is a really good social layer for Google Apps. It works fine and is very useful to create conversations around you documents.

Looks like they made it work well - but, of course, only in Windows so I can't test it.

The world is really flat!

via @boostzone

A good article about the fact that email is not so important anymore for people organized in a 2.0 way.