Archive for June, 2009

OK. You’re a small to medium legal firm. You are engaged in a sensitive dialog between two or more parties and you need to share information between them in a secure and simple manner. You are probably (read should be) reluctant to send sensitive documents via email. You do some research and discover that “virtual data rooms” are the way to go….until you discover how much it will cost. Read the rest of this entry »

McKinsey wrote an article (“Beyond the Business Unit”, February 2001) some time back regarding what they called “lateral processes”. As a keen observer of the impact (or occasional lack thereof) technology can have on knowledge workers, I’ve wondered what benefit collaboration in an organisation can have? Read the rest of this entry »

Many organisations struggle to deal with the volumes of unstructured content on an everyday basis:

Don’t expect that the volume of content will diminish any time soon. 

One of the biggest culprits of the information overload is email. Many of us are already slaves to email.  We use our inbox as a filing cabinet. This behaviour can be difficult to change.  Read the rest of this entry »