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Category: Business & MBA

Business related notes.

  • The Ideal Amount of Time Office for Maximum Engagement

    Employee engagement suffers ever since the pandemic mandated home office for a huge chunk of the workforce. Smart scheduling software company Clockwise surveyed more than 1000 knowledge workers. Results hint at an optimal mix for best possible employee engagement.

    From empiric observation, employee engagement has other factors that weigh heavy. In particular larger organisations with multiple locations face risk to detach employees by organisation. The physical office still needs organisational peers to show the above effect.

    #futureofwork

    Trying to decide on your hybrid work policy? Read this first.

    from the article

    Source: Here’s the Ideal Amount of Time Employees Should Work in the Office for Maximum Engagement | Inc.com

  • Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders

    Seeing Meta’s Instagram and Facebook platforms to allow users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion is one of the most dystopian news of the past months. The company has been criticised for fueling hatred and hate speech, even with previous policies.

    Facebook Logo

    Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.

    Source: Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders | Reuters

  • Google Workspace for shadow IT

    All of Google’s products have been designed to be easily accessible. That included Google Docs and the work app bundle that was GSuite.

    Google Campus (from the TechCrunch Article)

    When G Suite became Google Workspace in 2020,as part of a mass reorganisation of the company’s apps for the “future of work”, the company also announced the end of a free edition.

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  • Experience Conflict

    Experience Conflict

    Customer Experience will get back customer centricity in 2022. A good way to start the year is with a fnord.

    Of course one needs to ask to learn how customers feel or use a product to improve. Sometimes these needs and goals are conflicting and easy to mess up the experience.

    Printer Survey

    Twitter user @pikelet found this on a Canon printer.

  • Mobility Features

    Mobility Features

    Die Automobilbranche schaut ja schon länger auf die Erfolgsstories der Softwareindustrie. Mieten statt kaufen, monatliche Einnahmen statt einmaliger Kosten. Für die Standheizung nur im Winter bezahlen zu müssen scheint dem ein- oder anderen Kunden ja auch noch nachvollziehbar zu sein. Wie der Benutzer @_uni_corn_ auf Twitter berichtet, kann es allerdings sein, dass Skoda den Ansatz überzieht.

    Ich finde Skoda übertreibt das mit den kostenpflichtigen Zusatzfeatures etwas…

    Originally tweeted by Uni_corn (@_Uni_corn_) on December 26, 2021.

  • Consumer And Customer Experience Trends In 2022

    According to Forbes’ Bernard Marr, here are 8 Trends that will dominate 2022.

    Trends in Customer Experience

    Consumer expectations are shifting all the time, and with the ever-faster digitization of our world, customers want and expect better and different things from companies. Here we look at the top 8 consumer trends for 2022.

    Bernard Marr in Forbes
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  • Google sponsors secure open source software

    Google has announced today a $1 million sponsorship for a new pilot program aimed at enhancing the security of critical open source software projects.

    Source: Google offers $1 million sponsorship to secure open source software – The Record by Recorded Future

  • Totango raises $100M Funding

    “Thank you”, Totango Blog

    Totango has raised $100 million in a round led by Great Hill Partners. The Redwood City, California based company was has raised almost $150 million, according to Crunchbase, making this the biggest investment yet.

    There’s a lot we can do with $100M, continuing to invest in our product innovation, scale our platform and team and work toward our mission

    Source: Totango

  • Akamai acquires Guardicore

    Akamai is still pushing it’s cybersecurity capabilities. Today the company acquired Israel based cybersecurity firm Guardicore for $600 million, reports ZDNet.

    ZDNet

    Guardicore’s zero-trust solutions brought it to the attention of the CDN.

    Source: ZDNet

  • Slacking.

    evidence.

    Yes. eMail is still a favourite topic of mine. Years later, it’s still the one single medium, that allows communicating across organisational boundaries. It’s still the one medium that allows to reach out to random people, e.g. for marketing. Despite the difficulties GDPR introduced for marketeers in 2018, driving a lot of marketing to proprietary, US-American platforms. Inside corporate, it’s still the one single medium that allows to make sure your manager is informed with communication between otherwise colleagues. (About the good climate, obviously.)