Email Banned by Consulting Company
There was an interesting segment on the BBC breakfast show last week discussing the fact that the consulting company ATOS has decided to ban its staff from using internal emails by 2014.
Whilst I think this is a bit of an overreaction it does highlight the fact that the use of email has got completely out of control.
Being of a certain age and in the industry for too long than I care to remember I am amongst a small group of professionals, who project managed and implemented massive systems without the use of email.
We can still remember when collaborating meant everyone in a project sitting in the same room and speaking to each other.
Email Introduced.
When email came along it was a godsend to project teams and really helped in the communications process. It probably helped us become more efficient. We were the masters for the technology and used it and loved it.
However email has become abused over time and we have now become the slave to the emails. Because of this ATOS have made their decision.
Obviously we now live in a connected world and are using social media more and more this means there are a plethora of tools that we can now use to communicate, or the real topic of the moment, COLABORATE.
There are many Instant-messaging platforms that are now getting the acceptance in the corporate market and these are being rolled out and used.
Email or others – Collaboration is the key.
I feel there is a place for all these tools in the IT professionals tool box and they should be used appropriately. The decision from ATOS, in my opinion, on banning mail is down to misuse of the technology not the technology itself.
With a little discipline in using the technologies the can be used to their full potential. I will follow up on with a separate article on how I manage email and communications to avoid the overload scenario.
To email or not email that is the question.
There was an interesting segment on the BBC breakfast show last week discussing the fact that the consulting company ATOS has decided to ban its staff from using internal emails by 2014.
Whilst I think this is a bit of an overreaction it does highlight the fact that the use of email has got completely out of control.
Being of a certain age and in the industry for too long than I care to remember I am amongst a small group of professionals, who project managed and implemented massive systems without the use of email.
We can still remember when collaborating meant everyone in a project sitting in the same room and speaking to each other.
Email Introduced.
When email came along it was a godsend to project teams and really helped in the communications process. It probably helped us become more efficient. We were the masters for the technology and used it and loved it.
However email has become abused over time and we have now become the slave to the emails. Because of this ATOS have made their decision.
Obviously we now live in a connected world and are using social media more and more this means there are a plethora of tools that we can now use to communicate, or the real topic of the moment, COLABORATE.
There are many Instant-messaging platforms that are now getting the acceptance in the corporate market and these are being rolled out and used.
Email or others – Collaboration is the key.
I feel there is a place for all these tools in the IT professionals tool box and they should be used appropriately. The decision from ATOS, in my opinion, on banning mail is down to misuse of the technology not the technology itself.
With a little discipline in using the technologies the can be used to their full potential. I will follow up on with a separate article on how I manage email and communications to avoid the overload scenario.