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Bei der Lotusphere werden eine Reihe von Neuentwicklungen vorgestellt, insbesondere im Bereich von UC2™, der Communications- und Collaboration-Plattform der IBM. Außerdem werden Collaboration-Technologien in Echtzeit präsentiert. Für unerfahrene Nutzer hält die Lotusphere eine Menge wertvoller Informationen bereit. In einigen Veranstaltungen geht es um Collaboration-Strategien, in anderen um Bereitstellungstechniken für die Integration vorhandener Telefonie-Infrastruktur, außerdem werden Lösungen für Telefonanbieter vorgestellt. Und die Lotusphere ist eine der wenigen Veranstaltungen, bei denen sich Collaboration- und Communications-Experten wie auch führende Telefonieanbieter treffen. - Martin Koser

I think I'll wait for Google Wave to actually come out of its Alpha 'Preview' release status before I drop the hammer on it. You haven't even seen a feature complete version of the product yet! Its pretty ambitious don't you think? I swear that soon you bloggers will want real unicorns delivered with every new app (no matter how many alpha/beta graphics are stamped on it) before you're satisfied. - Martin Koser

“It is harder and harder for me to spot an IT sector in which Google does not offer products and services,” Mathias Schindler pondered in the forum, “Can you think of any IT sector where there is no Google product (yet)?” Competition has a tough time, unless they happen to get bought up by Google, not only because of Google’s cross-integration power, but also because it would take mindblowing budget to reproduce Google’s cloud server farm. Google after all arguably owns the world’s biggest super computer, one with an AI that becomes better and better with more data. But the giant is growing taller by the second, and I’m curious if there will be a couple of instances where we’ll see him stumble over his own feet in 2010. - Martin Koser

Do we really use too many buzzwords? Right now, “real-time”. Some words Kevin has found useful to describe the new web. - Martin Koser

In case you haven't noticed, IBM Lotus not only didn't go away, it's here with a vengeance. LotusLive.com claims 18 million users, the 8.5 release of Notes/Domino is a winner in storage savings, Lotus Connections beats other social software platforms on many dimensions, and Sametime's pushing the envelope on real-time collaboration at global scale. - Martin Koser

I do agree with you about creativity and design. I do believe that while they are not the same, they are closely related to each other. The dictionary defines creativity as “the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.” Design is “organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art; composition.” - Martin Koser

Ziel des Steckbriefs ist eine Einschätzung des Potenzials von Microblogging für die Wissenschaft – inwieweit können Dienste wie Twitter und Friendfeed die Wissenschaft in ihren Grundfunktionen, WissenschafterInnen bei sowohl formalisierten (z.B. Konferenzen und Dokumentation) als auch informellen (z.B. Austausch in Teams) Aktivitäten unterstützen? - Martin Koser

The time is right - the technology is there ... - Martin Koser

Building Design that Builds Businesses The 12th annual BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Awards showcase smart new retail and office spaces ..... how carefully designed buildings can boost productivity, collaboration, and revenue - Martin Koser

Eine Frage ist immer: Funktionieren die Plugins noch? Vladimir Simovic hat einige getestet und ist nur bei Simple Tags auf ein Problem gestoßen. Er erklärt, wie man es behebt. - Martin Koser

After installing Personal Menu, "Menus Toolbar" is available in Toolbar Context Menu, and you may hide it to save the space of browser. - Martin Koser

Brainstorming is one of the most powerful creative techniques ever devised. When used properly, it can produce more and better ideas than any other process. It’s based on the concept that two heads (or three, or four, or more) are better than one. Many would argue that you can’t create by committee. I agree. Writing and other creative acts are best performed by individuals. Creating by committee, well . . . sucks. But brainstorming is not about executing ideas. It’s simply about coming up with ideas. And it is almost always more productive as a group activity. The result of a brainstorming session should be a long list of potential ideas which you can evaluate at a later time, acting only on the best. - Martin Koser

Design thinking is a term — almost a mantra — that has resurfaced a lot lately. It has been especially poignant during this time of financial hardship, during which a number of traditional or conventional processes have been debunked and are being rethought altogether (let’s use it in a sentence: "Mr. Brown thinks that the publishing world could benefit from design thinking.") But others believe that design thinking has no basis unless it recognizes that the process is rooted in design-doing. - Martin Koser

Also. Finger weg. Die Mädels und Jungs haben wichtigeres zu tun. Die können Geld verdienen, statt zu chatten oder zu bloggen. Von wegen ROI und so. both LOL and #yesyesyes - Martin Koser

Proprietary ERP companies make connecting to ERP complex. Like Edison and Tesla, they don’t work well with competing systems. Conversely, open source is about unifying things. While today’s open source ERP systems are good, they haven’t reached the point where replacing your existing SAP or Oracle installation makes sense. Yet, in the next few years, the reduced cost and increased benefit of a cloud enabled open source ERP system will far outweigh the benefits of a closed proprietary system. - Martin Koser

As I was writing the blog, my personal experiences at IBM kept flashing through my mind, both our own near-death experience back in the early 1990s, and what we learned a few years later as we embraced the Internet and came up with the e-business market strategy, which played such a key role in helping to transform the business models and culture of the company. IT and media are clearly very different industries, but there are parallels from which perhaps we can learn. Let me discuss three such potential lessons. Lesson 1: If disruptive changes are inevitable, it is critical to start planning for the post-change future and take whatever actions are necessary to survive. - Martin Koser

There are quite some challenges to overcome in monitoring and evaluating the effect of knowledge management strategies and interventies. - Martin Koser

Diese Art der Sicherung ist nicht wirklich zu empfehlen, da die Image-Datei die gleiche Größe wie die gesicherte Partition hat. Daher ist es sinnvoller, das Image zu komprimieren. Der folgende Befehl erstellt ein komprimiertes Image der Partition /dev/hda1 und speichert dieses in die Datei image-compress_hda1.img im Heimatverzeichnis. Durch das Weglassen von of im Befehlsaufruf werden die Daten auf die Standardausgabe geschrieben, wo sie dann per Pipe-Operator an gzip weitergeleitet werden: dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -9 > ~/image-compress_hda1.img.gz - Martin Koser

I like #3 - Collaboration is a human process – throwing technology at people won’t magically/automatically create collaboration - Martin Koser

Folgendes ist dabei für mich von Interesse: network.prefetch-next Wird mittels doppeltem Klick meinerseits von true auf false gesetzt. Einfacher Grund: die eigene IP muß nicht auf gut Glück verbreitet werden. Nähere Details siehe dort, fefe erwähnte dies auch einmal vor einiger Zeit. - Martin Koser

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hihi, ... In den meisten Unternehmen herrscht eine Art Krieg zwischen IT und BWL. Geschuldet wird dies persönlicher Eitelkeiten, der Angst man könnte ersetzbar sein, wenn man nicht genug Fachwissen hat und dem nicht vorhandenen und auch nicht gewollten Verständnis für den anderen Fachbereich. Natürlich wünscht sich das die Unternehmensleitung, aber die bekommt von dem Krieg meistens gar nicht so viel mit - bis einer petzen geht, aber das traut sich dann doch niemand. Es hängt also auch in großen Maße von der Unternehmenskultur ab wie offen Mitarbeiter unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen miteinander kommunizieren und ob die Anforderungen und Wünsche der Kollegen (die BWLer und ITler nun mal sind) zu respektieren, auch wenn man sie nicht versteht. - Martin Koser

Beyond that, there’s another reason. One that twists my melon considerably. Is there such a thing as too-easy? For me, there is. If creating a blog post is as easy as hitting a button and typing twenty words, then I’m opening a Pandora’s Box. - Martin Koser

Every designer needs a good collection of free fonts, when working on design projects weather your designing for the web or for print its always essential to have a good collection of fonts. Fonts can be very expensive especially when working on a design project with a small budget. This is a collection of the best free fonts created in 2009. - Martin Koser

So lebe ich. Dies ist, zusammengefasst, mein Leben. Eines Tages werden meine Hinterbliebenen fünf hellblaue, dicht beschriebene Karteikarten finden, und dann, so wünsche ich, so hoffe ich, wird irgendjemand in der Küche die Birne austauschen und den Plattenspieler zur Reparatur bringen. Oder auch nicht. - Martin Koser

Culture is key to successful online collaboration and that is an element that is often times hard to capture in reports and surveys. Web workers seeking new opportunities need to seek prospective clients and employers where the corporate culture is more than just four walls and a cubicle farm and there is a strong track record of online collaboration and remote working already in place. - Martin Koser

User-driven and open innovation mean different things to many people. So how should consultants guide their clients on this? - Martin Koser

Strange times: The Great Recession and Great Inflection are making our companies ultralean, innovative and productive. But with credit still constricted, we’re like a superfit track star with a weak heart. We’ve got to get credit pumping to our industrial muscles again. - Martin Koser

. Informal communication is still happens, especially in the goal-oriented space, but the chances for it are lower, because it’s extra taxing (e.g. questions that would be asked in a meeting may not get get asked in email or IM chat). For opportunity-driven communication it’s even worse: lack of shared physical space results in far less triggers that might turn into a conversation: there are not many non-essential activities (no drinking coffee online :), it’s more difficult to observe others and even goal-oriented communication mediated by technology tends to be more “on topic” (from my experience “social talk” at a face-to-face meeting happens much easier than in a phone conference or email exchange). - Martin Koser

Appreciate your observations about the tenor of so many workplaces today (and so short-sighted as that stress is so often self-defeating), and the import of attention to systems. My own observation as an executive coach and organizational consultant, is that the attention to Systems is missing for two prime reasons: 1. Most managers do not think systemically. They have not been trained to do so, and little in their life socialization natively prepares them to think this way. 2. The organizations most managers work in do not encourage a systems orientation. In fact, while some institutional proclamations talk about putting "the company's interest ahead of your own," or "doing the right thing for the team" and other, similar platitudes, their policies are exactly contradictory to this. Individuals are assessed for personal accomplishments, not contributions to the overall success of the organization. They compete for internal resources, rather than work cooperatively to leverage limit - Martin Koser