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Do you have an [enterprise] app for that?

Written by Joyce Hostyn on August 23, 2011 - 2 Comments
ECM, experience design, requirements, user adoption

Gartner predicts that by 2013, 40% of enterprise knowledge workers will have removed their desk phone, as illustrated in this great infographic on this history of the knowledge worker. I’m one of those 40%. I participate in online meetings while soaking up the sun on my deck. I’m drafting this blog post from the Sleepless [...]

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Applying the Switch framework to two change efforts

Written by Joyce Hostyn on January 11, 2011 - 0 Comments
brain, change, ECM, user adoption

In  to succeed with change, tap into the power of the mind I summarized my takeaways from Switch. In this post, I’ll try applying the Switch framework to two very different types of change efforts. The first is a personal change effort many of us struggle with. The second is an organizational change effort. Losing weight [...]

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People are the heart of a conference experience: conversation by design

Written by Joyce Hostyn on June 14, 2010 - 1 Comment
ECM, user adoption

The family is shaped by the direction in which it points its conversation. It can focus on its memories and basically keep on saying: “this is the way we are, this is what the different members of the family have done and are doing.” Or it may treat itself as a base from which its [...]

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Visualizing the adoption experience

Written by Joyce Hostyn on May 21, 2010 - 3 Comments
change, ECM, user adoption

Earlier I blogged about visualizing the customer experience using customer experience journey maps. The experience I’m currently trying to understand and visualize is the experience people go through when adopting a new application at work. The challenge of people adopting of new applications in an organization is a much different challenge than the one of people [...]

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How to trigger an epidemic of good – the power of positive gossip

Written by Joyce Hostyn on March 9, 2010 - 5 Comments
change, ECM, story, user adoption

Last week when chatting with a customer who’s had tremendous success in accelerating adoption of ECM across her organization, she said something that really captured my attention. “We start all our meetings with positive gossip.” In other words, they start each meeting by sharing anecdotes and stories of what’s working. The key was that the anecdotes [...]

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Use design thinking to extract the threads from the giant hairball

Written by Joyce Hostyn on February 25, 2010 - 3 Comments
change, design thinking, ECM, mess

[Design thinking] is the ability to create new options and build new products, services and experiences that gives design so much power. It is the ability to understand deeply cultures from digital social media networks to small villages in southern India that gives design its power. – Bruce Nussbaum  I first came across the term [...]

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