Team Intelligence

Kalexo is showing off the latest in our unified collaboration technology at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles on Dec 6.  Here is a link to the symposium  and to the Kalexo web site for the event.

In many knowledge-intensive service-oriented verticals, working as a team to handle the overwhelming work load from your clients is of critical importance.  As a typical example, partners in law firms are typically completely overwhelmed with requests from several dozen or more of their clients, and are looking for ways to reduce the turn-around time, so […]

I found an interesting article at Computerworld with the following tag line:
Even the most sophisticated company is really a bunch of people making promises to one another.
One of the interesting statements it contains is that a promise is stronger if it is made in public.  The same dynamics apply for general teamwork (the article focuses […]

Research available from here indicates that although teamwork does have a positive correlation with your financial performance, it does not seem to make a difference whether the team is autonomous or not:
The results of this study confirm the popular belief in management circles that team production is a good bet for enhancing organizational performance. […]

It seems like the things you assume about how a great startup is born might be misleading you.   I  am starting to suspect that the most valuable things I’ve learned at the previous companies I worked at was what not to do.

We’ve been asked many times where the name Kalexo comes from.  Since every word in practically every language is already registered as a domain name, it is really hard to come up with a name.  When the company was founded, we did not know what we were going to build, so we were happy with […]

Kalexo is  the name of the software startup that I am involved with.  Our interest is how to better handle the mess of work that happens when a team grows large.  Getting on the same page and staying there is pretty hard when you have a large team and a few thousand things to do.  […]

So you decided to become an entrepreneur and you have a good idea or two you think you might be able to turn into a business. If you are a software guy with some ability, you are probably already tinkering with your new software system in your free time. At this point it is probably […]

After pondering likely failure a lot, and putting what I discovered into the context of a software business, I came to the conclusion that the current software mantra of “release early, release often” might not be an optimal strategy. It has to do with how software is designed and built. If you have to build […]

Whatever your idea, your business is mostly likely going to fail. The numbers might be a bit dated, but only 1 in 20,000 ideas even make it to a public company. The odds of a public company surviving more than a few decades are also small. Over the period 1912 - 95, 29 of the […]