Wednesday: May 23, 2007 11:34 AM
Let’s start with a bit of a background and mission of this blog. Our organization has deployed collaborative and social software (Web 2.0 Technologies) over the past 4 years. We have seen a fair amount of success by applying our traditional fram...
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Wednesday: May 23, 2007 11:43 AM
After studying and reviewing actual implementation of Enterprise 2.0 efforts, I have come to the following conclusion. You can classify implementation as either failures or successes. There seems to be a wide diversity of reasons for the success...
Continue reading "Commonality of Failure" »
Wednesday: May 23, 2007 3:20 PM
When land was the source of power, we went to war over it. When capital was the source of power we built large monolithic banks. When industrial production of physical products became the source of power, we built hierarchal organizations bound ...
Continue reading "Knowledge is the Source of Power" »
Wednesday: May 23, 2007 5:39 PM
Animal Planet is a great resource of business metaphors and last night had a great show on Dolphins. One of their favorite foods is herring which forms a giant ball when attacked. The thinking is that if they come together, they will appear to b...
Continue reading "Welcome to the Red Herring Club" »
Wednesday: May 23, 2007 5:42 PM
With telecommunications, mobile devices, and ubiquitous networks, technology is making this a reality from San Francisco, CA to London, England. But,...
Continue reading "What happens when all information is free, freely available, to anyone, at anytime and from anywhere?" »
Thursday: May 24, 2007 2:46 AM
Thursday: May 24, 2007 11:41 AM
While the differences between Enterprise 1.0 and 2.0 are grey at best, we can attempt to draw some segmentation by reviewing the high level characteristics. The following table provides a side by side comparison of these technologies.
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Thursday: May 24, 2007 2:00 PM
One of the missing components of most implementations of Collaborative and Social Software is the responsibility for the success or failure of the effort. That sounds a bit harsh, but regularly, I fail see the components of a vision, mission, met...
Continue reading "Enterprise 2.0 Vision" »
Friday: May 25, 2007 1:44 PM
So they put you in charge of the Collaboration rollout and that’s the good news. What type of business are you going to build? McDonalds or the Whompoa Club (Shanghai). The objectives are very different; McDonalds wants to process as many custom...
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Friday: May 25, 2007 2:13 PM
Suppose I go online and order a brand new F-150 pickup truck. Everyone in Georgia has a pickup truck; it’s a state law. The price, including all of the additions, is around $30,000. I drive that truck one mile down the road, now what is the val...
Continue reading "What happens when the consumption of products increase the value?" »
Sunday: May 27, 2007 12:53 PM
While Web 2.0 applications like Flickr, SlideShare, MySpace, and Second Life provide great examples of large scale deployments, we seem to have a shortage of Enterprise mass adoptions. Mass adoption would be where a large percentage of employees, ...
Continue reading "Mass Adoption of Social Software" »
Sunday: May 27, 2007 3:10 PM
Monday: May 28, 2007 2:34 PM
When implementing collaborative or social applications within the enterprise, four scenarios emerge where you can provide service.
Education Opportunity: A customer has never heard of collaborative or social software, what...
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Monday: May 28, 2007 9:06 PM
Dan Ward just published a wonderful book on the simplicity cycle. He presents an idea that we will all kick ourselves for not coming up with it. The basic is that we start at ground zero on a two dimensional chart where the Y-axis is the complex...
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Tuesday: May 29, 2007 1:07 PM
If I were to ask you what tool would you use within the enterprise to communicate or collaborate on a project, the obvious answer would be the one that offers the greatest value. Value is defined as the constant push and pull between the amount o...
Continue reading "Avoiding Bad Experiences" »
Tuesday: May 29, 2007 8:46 PM
By now you have probably heard of Web 2.0 and all of the hype surrounding the next evolution of web technology. The impact on our culture is unmistakable with the advent of Weblogs, Wikis, and many other social applications. While Web 2.0 has be...
Continue reading "Another Review of Enterprise 2.0" »
Wednesday: May 30, 2007 11:57 AM
From one of my previous posts, I made reference to how odd it is that we spend over 90% of our time talking about something that will only have a 10% impact on your implementation; namely, tool selection. Take wikis for example, you have several ...
Continue reading "Enterprise 2.0 Wager" »
Thursday: May 31, 2007 11:39 AM
Within the collaborative space we can classify customers into those that have been engaged and those that have not. Let’s first look at the ones that have not engaged your Enterprise 2.0 effort. We can classify these users into the three differe...
Continue reading "Not Engaged; Three Barriers to Consider " »
