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How to thwart collaboration overload by working smarter

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Contributed by Rob Cross , professor of global leadership at Babson College, cofounder and research director of the Connected Commons business consortium, and author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being. What is dysfunctional collaboration?

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Opaque Systems secures cash to keep data private while enabling collaboration

TechCrunch

The team built the technology during their work on the MC 2 (Multiparty Collaboration and Competition) open source project at UC Berkeley’s RISELab, when they received early access to Intel’s SGX platform. “Collaborative learning across teams in enterprises is a big use case. ” The Opaque platform.

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Passive collaboration is essential to remote work’s long-term success

TechCrunch

The best engineering work isn’t done in isolation, but in collaboration, as teams discuss, wrangle and brainstorm through problems. But we don’t yet have a complete substitute for in-person work because we continue to lack tooling in one critical area: passive collaboration. Active versus passive collaboration. The whiteboard.

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Switchboard creates virtual rooms to foster better collaboration

TechCrunch

Switchboard , a collaboration app that combines features of videoconferencing and digital whiteboarding, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round that values the company at $200 million post-money. ” Ashkenazi said in an email interview. Image Credits: Switchboard.

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Visa Collaborates with Seven Startups to Drive Payments Innovation in Asia Pacific

AsiaTechDaily

This collaboration aims to foster co-development, testing, and iteration of innovative solutions while validating them against commercial opportunities within Visa’s extensive network of financial institutions, merchants, and digital partners. Also, Playbux from Thailand presents a fully integrated Web 3.0

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How Cloud Technology Enables Budding Entrepreneurs to Work Smarter

StartupNation

There is no doubt that cloud technology continues to grow in popularity; we’re using it in our personal lives more than ever before, and businesses are adopting cloud infrastructure and applications to improve workplace collaboration, productivity and even security. Paving the way for a new wave of business leaders. Previously published Feb.

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Navigating new horizons: Filiboosta’s collaborative success at Impact Hub Florence

Impact Hub

Navigating new horizons: Filiboosta's collaborative success at Impact Hub Florence Cesare Manni, Annarita Bonanata, Valentina Cangiamila, and Eduardo Bartali, digital specialists and proud members of Impact Hub Florence since 2019, formed Filiboosta. Since its inception, Filiboosta has achieved remarkable success.