SuccessfulWorkplace

Big Data, analytics and automation of work is changing the makeup of the office. More of our decisions are made by non-humans. Less and less of our processes require people. More and more our coworkers aren’t human, either. That doesn’t mean they’re zombies or aliens, though a few of our office mates seem to be […]

Peer-to-peer business models are popping up everywhere. Just today, Boxbee launched a sharing library to allow people storing their unused goods to lend them to others. For a $15 delivery fee, any shared goods can be borrowed and no one needs to own a garage full of stuff. Instead, you have a sharing library to […]

Yes, it’s that time. You knew it as soon as you heard Bing Crosby crooning White Christmas at the grocery store. No, we’re not talking about Christmas…we’re talking about the time of the year for every yoyo with an opinion to predict what will happen in the coming year. We’re never short on opinions ourselves, […]

With a high school senior about to go off to college, education and the future of careers are front and center at our home. We’ve come out strongly in favor of computer science as an incredible career field. With both parents working in technology, it would be easy to say that our bias toward technology […]

Even when Google Glass was only a rumor, there were questions about whether it was a glimpse of the future or just a gimmick. It was enough of a question that it made the Weekend Update on Saturday Night LIve as the cast ridiculed the device (it was very, very funny). It was clear that […]

I waited a few days to write this because it upset me so much. This week’s TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 in San Francisco brought us another example of boorish behavior by techies who still haven’t gotten the memo that we’re in 2013 and the workplace is diverse. What’s the deal? Why do technology workers feel they […]

A coworker shared a LinkedIn function a while back that creates a graphical map of your contacts. I created my own and marveled at the pretty colors and curving lines. Other than looking like a new and highly personal art form, what did it mean? Truth be told, I’m still not entirely sure. Yet I keep […]

Recent events have me asking if we’re really all that better off with both our science and our technology. Before you jump on that statement, read on. My son. Max who is now 11, is into his science in a big way. Yes – he is a geek and he is proud of it. His […]

The ability to benchmark your organization’s performance is expanding quickly. Services for metric benchmarking, as well as qualitative (or best practice) benchmarking are growing and expanding. The market has solved barriers around security and confidentiality. If you don’t have a benchmarking source that can guarantee you that level of trust, you need to find another […]

I have teenage step children and a four month old daughter. In the short 15 years between the birth of the teens and the infant, the world changed incredibly. The Internet arrived and software began eating the world at an even faster rate. This has me concerned about their employment prospects by the time both […]

It has been a long time coming, but it appears there will be process standards developed and implemented globally in the very near future. The World Economic Process Academy for Simplification and Standardization (WE_PASS) announced the upcoming release of globally-accepted and implementable process standards for all enterprise processes. Change is finally here In a statement […]

While writing a recommendation for a friend on LinkedIn earlier this week, I realized I was doing something that I couldn’t have imagined doing few years ago. You’re probably thinking, ‘Sure, it’s not like LinkedIn has been around forever’. But it wasn’t about LinkedIn. It was more about the recommendation itself. It was for someone […]

There are just no young people on LinkedIn. Young people complain that there are no jobs when they get out of college, but the fact that they aren’t on LinkedIn makes me think they aren’t trying very hard to look. They certainly aren’t doing what they can. Who failed to give young people the memo […]

Welcome to 24 x 7 x 365 connectedness and the challenges that come with an always-on world. That world is generating data, loads of data. And the more we’re ‘on’, the more data, and the more reason to be ‘on’. It’s a never ending cycle of chasing our data tail. Evolving technology and people That […]