HP to Acquire Poly HP plans to acquire device maker Poly for $3.3B. The acquisition of the enterprise headset, video and conference calling device business will complement HP’s February 2021 purchase of HyperX and its gaming gear. The deal should close this year. HP announced the plan to acquire Poly (NYSE: POLY) for $3.3 billion this week. Poly formed as a mashup of … [Read more...] about HP to Acquire Poly: HP to Buy Collaboration Device Maker Poly in $3.3B Deal
Collaboration
Returning to the Office: The Looming Coordination Problem With Collaboration Technology
Returning to the Office: The Looming Coordination Problem With Collaboration Technology As people return to the office, they may not return to their office—the office from before the pandemic, the one with the dead plant and the dated ketchup packets, the one with the flashing Ethernet light anxiously seeking a handshake for the last two years. When people return to the … [Read more...] about Returning to the Office: The Looming Coordination Problem With Collaboration Technology
The Top 5 Takeaways from Enterprise Connect 2022
The Top 5 Takeaways from Enterprise Connect 2022 Conferences have returned. That is perhaps the biggest takeaway from Enterprise Connect held March 21-24 in Orlando, Florida—a show dedicated to people working virtually. I will leave that to sink in. Of all the conferences, Enterprise Connect should take the lead in reducing the conference greenhouse footprint by … [Read more...] about The Top 5 Takeaways from Enterprise Connect 2022
Video Conferencing Innovations: 4 Features That Reimagine Video Conferencing
Video Conferencing Innovations Despite months of investment and hundreds of new features, most video conferencing systems still deliver services that don’t meet expectations. From struggles with inputs and outputs, to confusion over video mirroring, to lost chat threads, video conferencing fails its users. Incremental improvements will not improve video conferencing … [Read more...] about Video Conferencing Innovations: 4 Features That Reimagine Video Conferencing
Knowledge, Collaboration and the Global Environmental Dialog
In 2013, I was asked by the Chinese government to join the United States delegation to the Tai Hu World Cultural Forum in Hangzhou. The following is the paper I provided to accompany my presentation. I have not published it on Serious Insights previously. With hybrid work now the norm in a world still ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought it would be useful to share … [Read more...] about Knowledge, Collaboration and the Global Environmental Dialog
