The theme at this year’s FASTForward conference is the “user revolution.” Don Tapscott gave a nod to Time Magazine’s selection of “You” as the person of the year in 2006 as part of his keynote Monday evening. References to Facebook, Flickr, and Wikipedia have been rampant throughout the general sessions and in hallway conversations. The [...]
Andrew McAfee’s Sloan Management article defining Enterprise 2.0 is available for download, so I took the opportunity to reread it, after a recent chat over coffee with Jordan Frank of Traction Software. Enterprise 2.0 is Now Free The article, at least. MIT Sloan Management Review, with support from IBM, is making a set of ‘classic’ [...]
James Robertson pointed to this last month. It is one of several excellent articles in an issue of the IBM Systems Journal on the topic of business collaboration. While the writing is a tad dry, the thinking and the research is nicely grounded in some real data for a change. Beyond predictable workflows: enhancing productivity [...]
Insightful advice from Euan. I’m not sure, however, that most organizations can avoid the temptation to meddle and manage this instead. That will slow adoption down in most cases. The 100% guaranteed easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0? DO NOTHING And then your bright, thoughtful and energetic staff will do it for you. Trouble is [...]
[cross posted at FastForward blog] I was sitting next to James Robertson yesterday as Ray Lane delivered his opening keynote address at FastForward07. At one point James leaned over to me and joked that I was beginning to twitch. What was bothering me was that Ray was perpetuating the lazy and glib thinking of Nick Carr’s [...]
Thanks to Jon Husband for pointing this one out. I’ve been a fan of Evelyn Rodriguez’s Crossroad Dispatches for a long while. Her writing challenges me to take risks that I don’t always rise to, but always appreciate. Business Problems and Root Causes A delicious discovery whilst browsing this morning … From Evelyn Rodriguez’ bio [...]
[cross posted at FastForward blog] We’ve been challenged to offer tips for gaining adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies by James Dellow and James Robertson. Of the responses so far, I confess that I am most aligned with Euan Semple’s, who suggests that perhaps the call for adoption advice is premature. Here are some thoughts on [...]
(cross posted at FastForward) Dave Snowden, formerly of IBM, now on his own at Cognitive Edge has been thinking about the relationship between organizations, knowledge, and technology for a long time. In one of several recent posts, “If the world is flat, seek out the bumpy bits ,” he reflects on the challenges of meshing [...]
This has been lurking in my RSS aggregator for the last couple of months, patiently waiting for me to get around to reading it (one of the core benefits of using RSS feeds). David Gurteen provides a nice starting point for discussion around attributes of effective knowledge workers. While I would certainly want people with [...]
Case examples of organizations employing information technology in strategic ways that are relevant to Enterprise 2.0 can be difficult to find. I know of an example from the late 1990s that nonetheless offers relevant lessons for today. Black and Veatch is an engineering management and design firm that builds large-scale projects such as power plants. I [...]
