by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 2, 2012 | Event, Productivity
I had the pleasure of listening to Khoi Tu talk about teams at the RSA in London. Khoi’s slogan is: “building a better world, one team at a time.” – which resonated with much of what we are trying to do here. His talk draws from his book:...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 13, 2012 | Leadership, Management
Earlier in the year I spoke at an event for the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), and some recent discussions have caused me to reflect again on how social technologies are fundamentally altering the way we do business. A study by IBM, that...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 28, 2012 | Knowledge Work, Leadership, Milestone Planner, Productivity
One of the phrases that sticks in my mind from the Internal Communications panel session at Social Media World Forum was from Andrew Barendrecht. Andrew talked about social in a business as a “Structured Revolution”. As a Collaboration Strategist at Apache...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 2, 2012 | Milestone Planner
Commitment, that’s what makes teams work, and lets teams work together. Actually, it’s commitments, which is why Milestone Planner is a commitment management system, at its heart. What are my commitments? Who have I made them to? When am I expecting to...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 9, 2011 | On the road
Over the past year I’ve been fascinated by the way business interactions and processes weave their way in-between the on-line and off-line worlds. Digital has become the default format for the majority of business data as so much of our interaction and data...
