The League of Exraordinary Coworking Spaces

I remember seeing the movie “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” with Sean Connery. I wonder who will star in the League of Extraordinary Coworking spaces?  The Invisible Man, to represent virtual space (he also was in the other movie), the Riddler for space of the future?  TwoFace for spaces that can quickly convert to something else? Well you get the idea.

Prediction 7 for Collaboration in 2012

7-  The Consumerization of Project/task Management: Consumerization of IT has been happening over the last few years, and even though this has had a big effect on CIO’s in the enterprise it also has had just as much effect on small businesses (SMB).  I look at a large enterprise as a collection of relationships, some of those relationships are to achieve a goal that is beneficial to the overall organization.  Like working on a new product project, it is a small team working on the project, but once done, the sale of the new product will benefit the whol

Prediction 6 for Collaboration in 2012

6- BYOD: The Changing Nature or Video Conferencing: It was not so long ago that we were looking at high-end video conferencing (called Teleconferencing) technologies that cost $250K per room ( and you need at least two rooms). But over the last 3 years videoconferencing has started to change.

VideoConferenicng has always had three main barriers:

Prediction 5 for Collaboration in 2012

5-  Reinventing the collaborative supply chain: Supply chain is one of the most siloed processes in the enterprise. It is one of the 6 critical processes I have talked about in the past that has “collaborative leverage.” In a process where collaboration meant leaving a spreadsheet for someone else to read, we are starting to see the migration of collaboration tools into this process.

Prediction 4 for Collaboration in 2012

4-  The nature of work is changing:  I know I am not the first to talk about this or even predict it. But with the level of complexity in the workplace and the continually rising torrent of information, it is inevitable that something must give way, and the most likely thing is the way we work.

Prediction 3 for Collaboration in 2012

3-  Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Collaborative Clouds: We are all aware of the “public cloud”, the Internet, the Information Superhighway, it is what you log on to every morning. If you are at work you log onto a private cloud, which is kind of like Cheers (where everyone knows you name), this might be where you do most of your work. But just like working only inside a firewall is not enough today, public and private clouds are merging. They are merging to such a degreee that the boundaries are not so clear any more.

Prediction 2 for Collaboration in 2012

2-    From Teams to Crowds:  Last year I talked about the nature of teams changing to include more permeability and also more geographic distribution.

Prediction 1 for Collaboration in 2012

Every year I get asked “What’s next for collaboration?” last year I did 10 predictions and followed up earlier this month on how well I did with last year’s predictions. I was about 80% last year (by my reckoning) let’s see if I can be more accurate this year. I have to admit that some of my predictions from last year did not come true.

10 Tweets on Collaboration

Please don't hold me to the exact 140 characters of a tweet. These are for my upcoming book on collaboration.  They can be seen as examples, words of wisdom, some sarcasm about collaboration and an expression of over 20 years experience in this field.

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The full title as you can see on the cover below is "Collaborative Tools and Techniques to Empower Productivity and Learning. We have some contributions so far but would like more.  Each contribution is 140 characters, and you can submit as many as you wish at this URL : http://tinyurl.com/successfulcorptraining03   We will only be taking submissions until the end of the month.