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  • Yolanda Torres 9:20 am on December 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Digital Wishes 

    Estimated reading time + video: 5 minutes

    Morning! The Christmas season is upon us and I wanted to write a Christmas post; a sort of summary of wishes that on a multitude of occasions coincide with technological advances that could improve our lives.

    2012 has, without a doubt, been the mobile year; a few years ago we never could have imagined the penetration and impact that smartphones would have on our lives. I wish for a real relocation of work that allows us to improve our personal lives: connected 24 hours but free!! 2013 will be even more mobile; you either exist on a smartphone or you don’t exist at all! :-)

    This has already begun, but it will grow and grow over the next few years – new life inside or recycle. In technological terms we will see the peak of products with a large capacity to improve software and programming, and update services, without needing to continuously change terminals. Zyncro has known this for a while, and it is a tool that hasn’t stopped evolving, maintaining its pricing. I wish for updates that don’t cost more

    We’ve heard a lot of talk about Big Data, often without knowing, or at least for me, what it means on a practical level for the consumer; however we outline what we call Data Mining or Useful Data for 2013. We only want what is useful, “don’t bother me, just give me the information I need”, we are moving towards the semantic web, my wish: to be more precise and save time

    Sharing, coworking, crowdfunding… are terms I’ve used often in my last few posts. Share, maximize, focus are verbs I like to use, the reality of the recession has made us search for innovative formulas for creating, working and sharing, by using technology. I wish that we could all show more solidarity and respect to both the material and the human environment.

    Here’s a video about coworking.

    Another trend will be MedicalApps, looking after and curing ourselves, being more self-sufficient in monitoring our health, with the corresponding savings in time and money. My wish is for these Apps to be useful, so that millions of people can access a health system.

    We will see a trend towards what is local, made here, which will become extremely important, from an energy saving point of view, and because in a world that is increasingly more global and interconnected we need to be aware of what we are and where we are. My wish is for us each to find our identity in the coexistence with others :-)

    This is a list of technological trends and human tendencies and some of my wishes with regard to growth.

    Happy Holidays to everyone!


     
  • Zyncro Blog 9:00 am on December 20, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Zyncro is committed to what’s most important… 

    Are you?

    The Zyncro team would like to wish you…

    Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2013! :)

     

     
  • Sandra Bravo Ivorra 9:00 am on December 18, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Oh, white, (and eternal?) Christmas! 

    Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

    Christmas is around the corner, that period of the year when the “Christmas spirit” is all around us, days when the streets are lit up with hundreds of lights, there’s a Santa Claus at the supermarket giving out candy and we all get together with our families to eat all the food typical of the season, as if there were no tomorrow. It’s also a time of year when we feel obliged to be better people and to automatically give gifts to everyone and anyone, so overcome are we by this tradition of Jewish-Christian origin mixed together with the ads of all the big chain stores and a certain tendency to compulsive consumerism.

    My favorite part of the whole season is this forced kindness and benevolent feeling that overcomes all of us. It’s not a bad thing, but I just wish it could last all year and that it happened more spontaneously. Why on earth do we find it so difficult to be grateful and appreciate what surrounds us? Has no one ever stopped to think of the potential of the words, “thank you”, or the expression “I love you”?

    I don’t mean to go all sentimental, but extrapolated to our day to day and in a working environment, it could give huge results and generally be more effective than sowing doubts about permanency in a job or playing at tug-of-war with economic or emotional blackmail.

    I know I go on about this, but I don’t think the business world has actually realised that, essentially, we are all human and we like to be treated as such. There are still “great” business people who continue to believe that selling the image of a serious and exclusive company with employees who are practically slaves, is the key to success.

    This could be the case until these employees realize that there is a life outside work or find a place where they are valued and told that they are appreciated, not only in the form of a salary, but in words and actions.

    Promoting activities that favor personal relations between employees and your company, encouraging their creativity, valuing their effort, offering them a smile and asking them how they are… are small tricks which, although some believe to only be a time-wasting exercise, in fact increase your team’s performance.

    How many hours do we spend each day in the office? Of this time, how much do we spend working comfortably and how much counting the moments until we can run out the door? If the balance leans blatantly towards the latter option, clearly something is wrong and sometimes this something is as easy to solve as being treated kindly.

    Shall we make Christmas last all year?

    Sandra Bravo is founding partner of BraveSpinDoctors, a strategic communication and political marketing consultancy.

     

     
  • Patricia Fernandez Carrelo 11:31 am on December 29, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Sharing, collaboration and teamwork: keys to an “efficient company” 

    Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

    The Zyncro team comes together for Christmas!

    Christmas is a time for meeting up, sharing, exchanging… values that are perfectly applicable to any business environment.

    In the photo starting this post, you can see several of our colleagues that participate in the blog, partners, resellers, providers… and members of the core Zyncro team.

    Last Friday, we held our Christmas party where all of us got together (together with people from other companies in the Inspirit group: Gootaxi and Hotelerum) to celebrate and share in Events 3.0 style, as described by Yolanda Torres in our blog this week. As well as collaborating digitally, we all need to get together face-to-face on occasions.

    This meeting was the perfect excuse for talking about a basic concept, something which is hard to implement at times in our companies: how to ensure effective teamwork .

    Any teamwork involves two sides:

    • Digital side: exchanging information, data, documents, ideas… (basically everything that was done by email up to now)
    • Face-to-face side (with conversations and dialogue): reaching consensus, brainstorming, evaluating, analyzing, making decisions…

    One of the keys in making the face-to-face side efficient and not letting meetings go on for hours is to, apart from properly managing the meeting itself, share the information that will be covered with participants before the meeting actually starts.

    I’m not going to focus on the management side of teams or on brainstorming strategies, but I would like to share with you the experiences we’ve had and learnt at Zyncro in terms of efficiently sharing information in order to improve face-to-face meetings.

    Some of the information that needs to be shared in real time to be covered in meetings as appropriate are:

    • Sales information that gives details about visits and contacts
    • Data and statistics (that need to be easily accessed by all members involved in management)
    • External corporate communications from the marketing and communication department
    • Information on the competition, sales opportunities and product documentation (especially updates) with partners
    • Internal feedback on the product or the company’s service
    • Status of projects, timings, possible deviations, incidents, status of deliverables
    • Translation aspects shared with the team of translators (when working with freelance translators) and the project leads for each project

    Having that information in real time enables you to improve knowledge management throughout the organization, but above all, enables you to hold efficient meetings from the outset.

    Enterprise Social Networks, like Zyncro, are knowledge management tools that support this new way of working. Nowadays, with teams scattered across the globe, different working hours that often don’t match and a saturation of emails that we don’t have time to sort through, having a platform that can manage all this information so it’s “spick and span” so to speak can help to improve productivity in any company and provide it with the information needed for efficiently managing face-to-face meetings.

    At Zyncro, we’ve been working on new documents to explain the work methodology used in the tasks performed by the so-called manager 2.0 within the ecosystem of the enterprise 2.0, a truly efficient company.

    Now more than ever, we encourage you to share your opinions, give your experiences, and to transmit this way of thinking to all your contacts. If you truly believe in information exchange as a key method for improving companies, don’t hesitate to do it!

    Share, collaborate, transmit, exchange and meet up… but efficiently!

    Your company will thank you for it! ;-)

     

     
  • ZyncroBlog 10:00 am on December 23, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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