Wednesday, August 21, 2002

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Michael Herman : We're currently hard at work on the "groovy" features in Parallelspace eMail 2.0 that Groove Networks and others has been hounding us about for almost a year. eMail 2.0's personal synchronization features are easy to use (as easy as "File Save As"), extremely fast and can save any type of Outlook item to any Groove tool in any shared space (as long as it makes sense) - right from within Groove Workspace. It's pretty neat to see people's reactions to our early 2.0 builds.

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Michael Helfrich on the swarming organization Let's also recognize that what I'm suggesting here requires a serious shift in organizational thinking. It begs for people in the enterprise to embrace disruptive innovations as part of their IT strategies. One must admit that to a large degree, we have moved our strategies back into the glass house. What I suggest is a massive shift away from deterministic, structured, permission-based interaction. An even bigger hurdle is the one we faces as managers: Can we embrace human chaos with as much zeal as we embrace order?