Forrester just released a report (purchase/subscription required) titled “It’s Not Your Kids’ Instant Messaging”. For companies still on the sidelines, questioning the business value of enterprise IM, this report provides good additional insight that may help in making a decision to embrace corporate IM as a collaborative productivity tool.
Here is another take on “making email boring”- how corporate America is trying to deal with email overload. Some of you may have seen this story on ABC last Saturday.
U.S. Cellular CEO Jay Ellison is banning email on Fridays. Ironically, Ellison announced the measure in an email to all 5,500 employees:
“Get out to meet your teams face-to-face. Pick up the phone and give someone a call. … I look forward to not hearing from any of you, but stop by as often as you like.”
Stefan Mehlhorn is the CEO of Permessa Corp. a Waltham, MA based company providing enterprise messaging management solutions and consulting services to many of the worlds largest corporations.
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