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Cisco Readies Webex for a Return to the Office

Cisco Webex Return to Office: Cisco’s October 2020 announcements prepare their suite of Webex collaboration tools for a return to the office for some, and for more flexible access for others. For many, a return to the office still seems like a faraway dream, but some people will return to an office sooner than later..

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How to Define Quality of Service for Meetings

Organizations and collaboration vendors need to embrace Quality of Service for Meetings. This three-tiered approach offers an innovative approach to measuring meeting success. Work that one does for others requires Quality of Service (QoS) metrics. As I have learned since writing Management by Design, most people don’t’ think about designing activities considered mundane or routine..

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How to Design a Meeting: The Don’ts

First of all, if you do the DOs of meeting design, you can probably avoid most of the Don’ts. But sometimes people need a reminder about bad behavior influences design. The Management by Design methodology explores a number of ways to arrive at rules like this, by applying ideas like simplicity, equitability, forgiveness, flexibility. It.

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How to Think Like a Scenario Planner

Those who want to think like a scenario planner need to adopt a new mindset.  Yes,scenario planning is a process. Those who treat scenario planning only as a process, however, achieve suboptimal results. Scenario planning, the analysis of the uncertainties, and the authoring of the narratives takes place in the imagination of the team creating.

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Google Workspace: Looking Beyond the Rebranding

 In our new report, The Collaboration Market 2020: Innovation and Momentum During Lockdown, Serious Insights pointed to the rapid developments in the collaboration market since the beginning of the pandemic and its work from home (WFH) fallout. This note looks at Google’s recent announcement of Google Workspace that further strengthens the argument that collaborative work.

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Review: SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD–A Drive for All Reasons

There is just something futuristic looking about the SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD. Orange and black. Rounded edges. A single USB-C port. Oh, and read speeds up to 1050 MB/s. What we like Taking a lot of stuff on the road with only a 64GB iPad in tow. While business travel may still seem far.

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Review: The THINKERS App Needs to Think Bigger

THINKERS App 3.0 just hit app stores. It moves beyond the tight relationship between the THINKERS App and the proprietary THINKERS Notebook. With this release, the app will now capture pages from any notebook, as well as photos, documents, audio, video, and whiteboards. The THINKERS app does continue to add features, but there is one.

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Notes Toward A Collaboration Experience Methodology

Notes toward a collaboration experience methodology. Even with the wealth of collaboration tools available, and the pandemic-forced need to use them every day, most organizations do not understand their collaborative work. Some may participate in vendor-specific surveys when implementing a tool, but those often concentrate on limited workflows that would favor the vendor’s technology. As.

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Review: Dyplay ANC Shield Pro — Nextgen features for under $100

Dyplay is not the first name that comes to mind of when shopping for personal audio products. It may not even be on the list. But it should be. Dyplay has engineered some powerful in-ear monitors (IEMs) with the dyplay ANC Shield Pro. What I like First of all, active noise cancelation (ANC) in an.

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The Collaboration Market 2020: Innovation and Momentum During Lockdown

The Collaboration Market 2020: Innovation and Momentum During Lockdown The collaboration market 2020: Collaboration vendors have touted the value of remote work for decades. It wasn’t until the 2020 COVID pandemic that their ideas of distributed work were deeply tested. And for the most part, collaboration delivered on its promises. The adoption of concepts often.

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