Knowledge is the Source of Power
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 ...
Enterprise 1.0 versus 2.0
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.
Enterprise 2.0 Vision
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...
What happens when the consumption of products increase the value?
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...
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Enterprise 2.0 Wager
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 ...
Not Engaged; Three Barriers to Consider
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...
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Enterprise 2.0 Customer; I was Wrong
A couple days ago, I posted that there were two types of Enterprise 2.0 customers or opportunities. I was wrong, dead wrong. The “engaged” and the “not engaged” left out the group that is currently “being engaged”. How silly of me to forget tha...
Fifteen Uses of Collaborative Solutions
1. Intranet Replacement; Open Access and Collaborative. An easy win…
2. Lightweight Document Management
3. Shared Space for Meetings; Sharing Agendas, Deliverables, Times, and Attendees
4. Team / Group Collaboration
5. Sh...
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Fifteen Uses of RSS in the Enterprise
1. Announcing Company News and Events
2. Product and Release Notifications
3. Job Openings and Organizational Changes
4. Employee Discounts and Reward Programs
5. Documentation Updates
6. New Shared Content within Soc...
Prosumers in Enterprise 2.0? Not yet...
The IT Innovator Don Tapscott suggested a term “Prosumer” to describe the blurring gap between the producer and consumer of a product or service. On the surface, this sounds like an important discovery and it is in the outside world. Clearly, or...
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Fifteen Ways to Market Enterprise 2.0 Applications
1. Friends and Family (Personal Network)
2. Newsletters (Informative and Advertisement)
3. Announcements (Email)
4. Web Sites (Client-Support, IT, Arch, Ops, etc.)
5. Search and Classification Engines
6. Launch and Tr...
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Fifteen Uses of Professional Profiles within the Enterprise
1. Establish your Expertise and Define your Professional Trademarks
2. Describing your Areas of Interest
3. Defining your Business Experience and Technical Expertise
4. Sharing Professional Documents: Resume, CV, and Portfolio
The Tipping Point of Enterprise 2.0
They call it the tipping point which a phrase popularized by Malcom Gladwells’s book called The Tipping Point. In social terms, a tipping point is the event where a previously rare phenomenon becomes rapid and dramatically more common to the end ...
The Enterprise 2.0 Experience
I make no apologies for being a rabid fan of the “The Experience Economy” book written by Pine and Gilmore. The insigh...
Social Computing Magazine Picks Up Collaborage
Excellent. Social Computing Magazine has picked up one of the Blog Posts here on Collaborage. This is an excellent advancement since it indicates that people are interested in actual case studies and real world experience. One of the basic thin...
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Enterprise 2.0 Conference Material
Here are a couple of interesting items from the Enterprise 2.0 conference held in Boston, MA. which was held this week. First, is Ross Mayfield’s interactive notes from the How to Build an Enterprise 2.0 Platform Employees Will Use session. Very...
Fifteen Ways the Enterprise 2.0 is a Business
Here are fifteen ways in which organizations need to run their corporate Web 2.0 implementation as a business.
1. Investment Capital
You need some initial investment of capital for the infrastructure and software.
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Quick ROI for Enterprise 2.0
Everyone one wants a Return on Investment model for collaboration and social software. Just to let you know, there are hundreds of such models out there for traditional information technology type programs. One quick ROI is to replace business u...
Information Experience Economy
Recently, Joseph Pine and I exchanged emails which always make me think beyond the obvious. He and his co-author make you re-think the basic ideas of value creation. While I think I am late to the ...
Sharepoint Case Study
Toby Ward (Intranet Blog) has documented an interesting case study of Collaboration using Microsoft's Sharepoint. More importantly, he shows a very interesting method of looking at out of date content which is a huge concern for most implementati...
Where are you in Implementing Enterprise 2.0
That’s a good question that many of us are afraid or unable to answer. That being said, I’ll propose one methodology for analyzing this question. I think it’s fair to say that the majority of the organization rides together, like a swarm of bees...
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Act Now, Mass Adoption is Coming
Remember the old days when people were selling domain names for millions of dollars? How much did http://www.cookies.com go for? I actually sol...
Business Transformations
There are many examples of organizations that have been completely transformed themselves over the past few years; none as much as the photography industry. Just about every component of the ecosystem has been transformed or been reinvented. Not...
I am Change, You are Irrelevant
Last month, I posted a quote from Eric Shinseki “"If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less" which sums up the basic message of Enterprise 2.0. The one thing I forgot to do is to introduce myself; I am change.
I...
Cost Center or Revenue Generator?
How are you going to run your Social Software program; as a cost center or a revenue generating program? No, you can’t cop out and say both. At the end of the day, you need to pick on or the other. If you choose cost center then you need to foc...
Email vs. Collaboration
Web 2.0 Book: Trademark 2.0
You Need a Champion
Over the years, our organization has deployed almost 35 knowledge stores including the Metadata Repository that won us several industry awards. O...
We are not prepared for 2.0!
According to the US Department of Labor, we will need to retrain 75% of the workforce in new technology and new methods of doing business. 80% of all jobs will require some form of post secondary education by 2015. The time of abundant resources ...
Coase’s Law and Enterprise 2.0
One of the things that seems to undisputable is that the productivity of the enterprise continues to increase year by year. The basic reason for this is the reduction of interaction and transaction costs within different organizations. Nobel Pri...
New Business Model: Enterprise 2.0
With apologies to David Coverdale, “Here I go again”. The problem with organizations today is that they are built upon vertical, top down hierarchal structures. This may make it easier to merge large organizations but can create havoc in buildin...
Marketing Enterprise 2.0: Part 1
As mentioned in earlier posts that awareness and education are two of the most important hurdles to overcome when deploying Collaborative Software in the enterprise. This weblog entry is the first of four entries on ways that you can communicate ...
Web 2.0 University
Wow, this look interesting. A Web 2.0 Bootcamp focusing on 7 major patterns of Web 2.0 applications, the structure and business models of Web 2.0, and how Web 2.0 concepts are applied directly to the design and development of online products and ...
Review of Trademark 2.0
The first review of "Trademark 2.0: Defining Your value in a Web 2.0 World" has come in and it's not bad at all. Thanks to Daragh O'Brien for his kind comments.
He has recently published ...
Education Channel: Part 2
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Customers Revolt
I had the opportunity to speak to a C-level executive at another company about Collaborative Solutions and in particular, Sharepoint. For two years, his IT experts were telling him that Sharepoint didn’t scale, wasn’t reliable, extensible, or man...
Enterprise 2.0 Equals Politics
Last week an “Enterprise 2.0” consultant called to chat about what he could to for me and my enterprise. I don’t really think he did his homework to know who he was talking to but I enjoyed his 15 minute overview of Web 2.0 within the organizatio...
Five Ways to Utilize Collaborative and Social Software
No one can say for sure that Social Software or Collaborative technologies are going to take off inside your company at this point in time. We can say, with great certainty, that the company will eventually embrace these technologies. The one qu...
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SharePoint and Social Software
After my fifth phone call and email on this topic, I think it’s time to create an informative post on a confusing topic. Can Sharepoint and Social Software exist in the same environment or must you choose one or the other. The first step in answ...
Eleven Enterprise 2.0 Case Study Articles
Here are 11 Enterprise Case Studies found on the web. The details vary by author but most can give you some good ideas on your implementation. Also, don’t forget the ones being collected by the Continue reading "Eleven Enterprise 2.0 Case Study Articles" »
Crying Uncle in Enterprise 2.0
Folks might be wondering why I haven’t posted as much over the past few weeks as I did in the prior months. Perhaps, I have run out of things to say about Collaboration, Sharepoint, or Social Software. Well, that clearly isn’t the case but I do ...
Web 2.0 Book Chapter Overview
Here are the chapter highlights for Trademark 2.0 which is now available on Amazon.com.
Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 Overview Available
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The Collaborative Bakery
I am still stuck on the differences between Communication, Coordination, Cooperation and Collaboration. I need an analogy to use to demonstrate what it means when two disparate teams actually collaborate together. Imagine Main Street in some lit...
Marketing Enterprise 2.0
One of the topics that really doesn’t get much discussion are the concepts of marketing and branding within the Enterprise 2.0 space. I don’t really want to spend time on dwelling on the basic definitions or utility of this type of effort. I wou...
Business Model 2.0
Regardless of your position, role, responsibility, there is one thing that you can be sure of in our environment. You are part of one or more business models within the enterprise. The bottom line is that all of us provide some form of service to ...
The Business Value of Blogging
IBM has published an interesting newsletter focusing on the business landscape for blogging. The article discusses the impact blogging has and reality that Social Software is part of our life and a leading source of information. Ed Brill who run...
Busines Value of Enterprise 2.0
Putting together some slides some slides for an upcoming conference, I started to put some thought into the elusive Business Value of Enterprise 2.0. After doing this for the past 4 years, locating examples of business value isn’t really that har...
Change is Coming
Watching the news coverage last night of the election, I was intrigued by one particular segment that talked about how, despite unemployment and interest rates being historically low, we seem to be concerned with the economy. The analyst provided...
Enterprise 2.0 Requires Efficiency
Recently, I joined a Board of Directors for a small organization with about 5 million in sales. We had our second meeting where we were reviewing the business model and one of the other people on the team, who owns several businesses, made an int...
Micro-Business Processes
Dr. Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for developing his Micro-Lending practice and the creation of the Grameen Bank. The idea is fairy simply in that his company would setup an environment where extremely poor people would be able to ge...
