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Oscar Berg

More than 15 years experience helping organizations understand and make smart use of new communication and collaboration technologies in order to improve knowledge worker productivity and efficiency, organizational responsiveness and agility, employee engagement, and innovation. Blogger, contributing author for CMS Wire, Social Business Expert Blogger for AIIM and frequent keynote speaker at conferences and events. Oscar left Tieto in the spring of 2012.

Improve decision making with social principles and technologies

by Oscar Berg, March 20, 2012, 
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Decision making processes that involve multiple parties and multiple perspectives can be lengthy and cumbersome, and consensus decisions are often elusive. Embracing social principles such as participation, openness, transparency and dialog and using social collaboration practices and tools to support collaborative decision-making, it is likely that much of the decision making in organizations can be improved both in terms of process and outcome. The potential advantaged include: Anchoring decisions with all interested stakeholders by enabling [...]

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User-centric = more profitable

by Oscar Berg, March 12, 2012, 
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Did you know that user-centric organizations achieve 23% higher revenue per employee than those that are technology-centric? And did you know that productivity has dropped 17% the last years in enterprise software usage? If this doesn’t make you think twice about how you approach new IT investments, then someone – probably the owners of your organization – should be really worried. According to the 4th annual IT Adoption Insight Report (http://sandhill NULL.com/article/2012-it-adoption-insight-survey-reveals-disturbing-level-of-enterprise-productivity-loss/) [...]

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Traditional intranets fail today’s knowledge workers

by Oscar Berg, March 5, 2012, 
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With the current pace of change, organizations will have to be prepared for the unexpected. They will have to provide flexible access to people and information resources to serve unanticipated information needs whenever and wherever they occur. However, traditional intranets fail today’s knowledge workers in this respect. This presentation from my talk at IntraTeam Event Copenhagen 2012 (http://www NULL.intrateam NULL.dk/sv/event/intrateam-event-copenhagen-2012-intranet-sharepoint-and-enterprise-search) explains how traditional intranet’s fail and what to do about t.

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Mobile collaboration at Tieto

by Oscar Berg, February 10, 2012, 
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Our presentation “Mobile collaboration at Tieto” from the Digital Workplace & Social Collaboration Forum 2012 in Stockholm last week, February 1-2, is now available for viewing and downloading at Slideshare. Check out how we are mobilizing our workforce at Tieto to improve information worker productivity and collaboration. Mobile collaboration at Tieto (http://www NULL.slideshare NULL.net/TietoCorporation/mobile-collaboration-at-tieto) View more presentations from Tieto Corporation (http://www NULL.slideshare NULL.net/TietoCorporation)

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Boosting productivity with workforce collaboration

by Oscar Berg, January 31, 2012, 
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Globalization and the digitalization of the economy increase the pace of change and forces organizations to quickly adapt to new conditions. Consumer behaviors and preferences are changing rapidly as we move towards an even more connected and digital economy, forcing businesses to constantly innovate their products and services. This is a reality an organization has to accept and adapt to, and the pace of change will not slow down. Increasing competition forces many organizations to [...]

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The Best Social Business Reports & Whitepapers From 2011

by Oscar Berg, December 30, 2011, 
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To wrap up 2011, I’d like to share with you some of the (IMO) best reports and whitepapers on Social Business I came across during 2011. Don’t agree with me? What other reports or whitepapers do you think should be on this list? Leave me a comment! PwC: Technology Forecast Q3 2011 – Transforming collaboration with social tools (free) (http://www NULL.pwc NULL.com/us/en/technology-forecast/2011/issue3/index NULL.jhtml) This issue of the Technology Forecast explores how social [...]

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Digital Workplace & Social Collaboration Forum 2012 in Stockholm Feb 1-2

by Oscar Berg, December 15, 2011, 
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Tieto is participating at the Digital Workplace & Social Collaboration Forum (http://www NULL.abilitypartner NULL.se/framtidens-digitala-sociala-och-kollaborativa-arbetsplats NULL.aspx) 1-2 February 2012 in Stockholm. The subject: the intranet of the future, which will be something entirely different from what most organizations have today. This is really the first conference in Sweden focusing on the digital workplace and the new generation of (social and mobile) communication and collaboration technologies. I will be presenting and I look [...]

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I’m not following process, but a cloud of activities

by Oscar Berg, November 24, 2011, 
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Some time ago I wrote a piece for CMS Wire called “Enterprise 2.0: The Future Digital Workplace Makes Work Flow (http://www NULL.cmswire NULL.com/cms/enterprise-20/enterprise-20-the-future-digital-workplace-makes-work-flow-012229 NULL.php)” where I discussed the need to understand the nature and characteristics of knowledge work in order to be able to create a work environment that is better suited for knowledge work than most work environments are today. A key point I made is that most knowledge work [...]

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The employee profile – What’s in it for me?

by Oscar Berg, November 8, 2011, 
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The problem with most of the data that we provide about ourselves to enterprise applications is that the data is just stored somewhere and then sits on its back waiting to be found. To be found, users have to be actively looking for it. If they are lucky (very lucky) there is an enterprise search engine that crawls the data in the enterprise application and allows them to find it – that is, if they [...]

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Transforming into a social business

by Oscar Berg, October 16, 2011, 
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The paper “Transforming into a social business (http://www NULL.slideshare NULL.net/TietoCorporation/transforming-into-a-social-business-opinion-paper-from-tieto)“, written by Philipp Rosenthal and Oscar Berg, is now available at Slideshare. The paper provides a perspective on the organizational, cultural and operational factors in the transformation of an organization into a networked and agile business. More specifically, it questions the techno-centric way that many organizations have approached social business this far and instead suggests a business-oriented approach to socializing business operations, [...]

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