collaboration

Although technology is what is driving this disruption, it is also at the center of creating the solutions to mitigate these risks. This includes massive online open courses (MOOCs) that are enterprise-focused and scalable. In addition, internal collaboration tools that foster group thinking and problem solving will also build a more effective workforce.

But this education must also go beyond the four walls of the office. There is a great opportunity for corporations to align their corporate social responsibility initiatives with STEM education [efforts] in order to integrate futuristic technologies into the education of our youth in order to better prepare them for the future. This includes exposing them to robotics and AI at a younger age and giving them opportunities to experiment with emerging technology. With AI already entering the workplace, we must prepare the next generation of the workforce to work seamlessly with these technologies as a partner, rather than seeing them as a threat.

Part of the problem is that as soon as anyone speaks, they contaminate the memories of everyone else in the room. That is why it is so important to get people to work alone to generate ideas before the group comes together.

That said, even if you have lots of great material to work from, there are four personality characteristics that can hurt the chances that the group will succeed at finding a great idea.

Mastering the art of turning down requests frees us to focus our energies on the important projects, a financial planner writes.

Here are eight categories which can be used to describe and organize ESN groups: COLLECTS - Community of Practice, Organization, Location, Language, Event, Community of Interest, Team, Support.

EY and LinkedIn will collaborate to create products and services that build on the strength of LinkedIn’s business platform, combined with EY’s consulting capabilities with global enterprises.

Do you appreciate your fans and followers? Do you really care about their feedback and opinion? Really? Good for you. ...and them. Well, you should k

New research reveals how social networks are practically supporting the work that firms do.

In this era of social media, short attention spans, and the increasing preference for images and video over printed words, what is the role of the good, old-fashioned newsletters?

Social networking took root in the consumer market with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Now, the same capabilities have moved into the enterprise environment. One of the most promising areas for social networking is innovation, which often depends on finding and collaborating with the right colleagues. Social networking can help individuals find others in their company who share common interests and answer the important question of 'who knows what.'...

Meetings are costly.

Often, they’re wasteful and unnecessary.

But sometimes, they’re either needed, or they’re simply a good investment, and that’s something that many startups forget about.

Just because something is costly, doesn’t mean that it can’t be valuable.

Automattic has one of the most unusual employee cultures of any startup we've ever heard of. And it begins with the hiring process.

"The unusual process starts from the get-go: the CEO does the grunt work. Mullenweg screens all applicants, spending one-quarter to one-third of his time on hiring. That way, when a hiring manager gets a resume, it comes from Mullenweg, and the person is already pre-approved by the CEO."

This chart shows the number of government requests for Facebook user data in the first half of 2015.