LinkedIn & Wicket, a nice way to bring people together

About 3 months ago Stefan Schrader and Kristofer Eriksson, friends of mine from Germany, were helping me out at Componence to find new technologies for our new product developments. When it came to front end technology they told my team and me for the first time about Wicket, a cool components oriented web development framework [...]

Cultural differences: how do the Dutch, Americans and Ukrainians treat their clients?

I believe in the statement in Covey’s book of 7 habits: “Treat your people like you want them to treat your best clients”. This way you can get any person of any culture to understand how you want them to treat your clients. This blog tells how I see the Dutch, American and Ukrainian culture make their people treat their clients in a certain way.

I hope the blog will help managers to deal better with issues related to offshoring units in the Ukraine. At the same time I hope that Dutch politicians will see my worries for the Dutch society. Btw, the blog is long, sorry for that.

Web 2.0 - Why isn’t LinkedIn mentioned as a research tool?

Imho professionals should fist learn how to use Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 to make more money in the short term, as this is more tangible and can create more sense of urgency. Only then it will become more easy to use Enterprise 2.0 for internal purposes, that will eventually need more patience as organizations are just usually slow to adopt and support new initiatives.

IT managers - let the Web 2.0 help you to make faster decisions and save money on POC’s and long investigations

IT manager; let developers and architects from all over the world help you …

I would rather have cultural differences!

Willing people of different cultures, who want to have success together, can be more open towards each other as the lack of similar background brings up the necessity of communication. Working and living in multi cultural environments can really boost up social and communication skills.

Enterprise 2.0 helps to manage, but managers should lead by example!

So Enterprise, if the man or women who is leading your Enterprise 2.0 strategy doesn’t blog, only uses LinkedIn for their profile and network and doesn’t have a profile on Facebook (or any local community), then it’s time to reconsider the position

Enterprise 2.0 isn’t new at all!

Online tools have always been there, since the early days of internet chat and communities made it possible for people to get in contact for mainly social reasons. But when will people change their mindsets to really adopt online tools to improve their work?