Organizations can do better than 360 surveys for getting and giving employee feedback. It’s time to shift our thinking from management directed feedback programs to facilitating an environment where peers can coach each other per the real context of what they do and how they work together .

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New Hires want to know what working with your team will be like. Instead we ask for skills and certifications. Perhaps what both employers and candidates need, beyond cover letters and resumes, is a way to see the people, and flows. Here are four steps to building your own social graph about a job role and discover fit interactively with the candidate

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To become an agile leader they need to understand how to focus their personal brand as being collaborative and inclusive. For CIOs like Bask Iyer of VMware, this means understanding the line between standardization and experimentation, and why shadow IT emerges and what to do about it.

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When we hear ridesharing we think about people driving and riding in cars has changed. But the real innovation is in how the online community can play the primary role in success of the business. This is what has helped Frederic Mazzella turned BlaBlaCar into a multinational success for 19 million drivers and riders.

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Often organizations think that the need for a common infrastructure is about reducing duplication or eliminating waste. That, to me, is a by-product. Rather what we need is to unlock the flows of creativity and connectivity across people. Accenture has been moving avidly to design their infrastructure to accelerate how employees collaborate–a key value of The Accenture Way.

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Google for Work is bringing collaboration to small and large businesses alike through their app platform. But what is different in how you use Google’s apps for personal use versus in the workplace. Find out from this conversation with Kim Wylie of Google for Work.

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If we open up HR practices and freely share the knowledge, can it help more organizations, particularly small and medium businesses, get a leg up? #HROS, the Open source HR movement, is attempting just that per Ambrosia Vertesi of Hootsuite

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The Internet of Things is becoming more real as we start seeing the most fundamental of devices for the home, the light bulb, become smarter, and easier to implement. BeON Home’s smart bulbs are a new self-configuring security device for the ordinary person, and gadget fans alike.

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Building skills of employees in remote corners of the developing world can put any Learning team in an organization to task. See our PSI, a global health NGO, built their own learning management system for their workers everywhere.

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How does a global energy production company radically reduce the time to fix a steam turbine from 4 weeks to 8 hours? By building a responsive collaborative organization at ENGIE Energy International, the power generation leader has found a path to innovation.

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