Collaborative partnerships come and go. Setting up and maintaining ICT (information and communication technologies) infrastructure to support each of those collaborations can bring on a serious headache. Adopting a cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) approach can alleviate that headache. It’s (adopting) what I’m doing and so far so good! The concept While […]
Look to the "clouds" to satisfy your collaboratives' computer application needs
Relying on your intuition may be your best decision in times of uncertainty
As a mediator, I often rely on my intuition as a guide in the heat of conflict. I never really understood how intuition worked though until I read Gerd Gigerenzer’s book, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious. A superstar in the psychology of decision making, Gigerenzer thinks relying on your gut feelings (a.k.a. intuition […]
20 Ways to physically structure your office for collaboration
Structure influences behaviour. How we design and build our offices will influence the way we work together. I just finished community expert Peter Block’s book Community: The Structure of Belonging. Combining some of the ideas presented in his book, along with a few other sources (also noted in this post), I thought it would […]