Greg Brenneman

president and COO of Continental Airlines

Richard Holbrooke

From Wall Street to war zones, master negotiator Richard Holbrooke brings a winning touch to the table.

Charles Schwab

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Rethinking collaboration and internal communication

Collaboration is changing rapidly, bringing people, applications, processes and information together in a new environment where fences no longer exist. Business processes, architecture and application integration, communication, and knowledge management are critical factors that must be addressed now.

Lionel Carrasco

Co-founder and CTO of Alterbrain, an integration services consulting firm focused on Latin American bricks and mortar companies

Craig Mundie

Microsoft Senior VP of Consumer Strategy

Anthony Wood

Founder and CEO of Replay TV

Ray Ozzie

Founder, Groove Networks, a company trying to use peer-to-peer technology to allow workers in different companies to collaborate on projects in a private, secure, virtual shared space.

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Getting From Good To Great

James Collins, author of Built to Last, discusses his research into companies that went from good to great (admittedly a small sample size) in this interview with InformationWeek.

Integrating Knowledge and Process in a Learning Organization

“Technology change management is not an isolated activity but a process that touches many of the socio-technical activities at work in an organization. This bigger picture of technology change management includes business and work processes and technical systems as well as processes related to group dynamics and collaboration. The connection is clear. When we ask people to change how they do their work, as we … [ Read more ]

Harold Sherman and Al Pollard

You will always succeed in life if you will always think and act in terms of the other person’s self-interest.

Using the Web for Project Collaboration

Consultants who form virtual project teams know that communication and coordination are two major challenges when team members are dispersed. Rick Freedman reviews two Web-based project collaboration tools (OnProject and ERoom) that can help make virtual projects a reality.

The Customer As Co-Developer

Who has more product knowledge: 10,000 workers or 1 million customers?

The Skinny on E-Services Vendors (.pdf)

Chart from InformationWeek special on E-Services breaks down how customers ranked their E-services vendors in the following categories:
– Knowledge of Networking
– Partnerships with Vendors
– Strategic Business Advice
– Industry Expertise
– Pricing and Value
– Reliability of Service
– Service-Level Agreements
– Programming Expertise
– Vendor Reputation
– Commerce and Brand Expertise
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