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...
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 ...
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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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...
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...
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...
Barriers to Adoption
Another way to look at Enterprise 2.0 adoption is to review the reasons people are not using the Enterprise 2.0 services. Most organizations like to survey their current customers to understand why they are using them. However, this seems to be ...
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 More importantly, he shows a very interesting method of looking at out of date content which is a huge concern for most implementati...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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Education Channel: Part 2
This is the second post in a series focusing on how to get the message out to the user community. This channel focuses on how to educate people on the collaborative solution or offering. Here is a link to the first post focusing on the Continue reading "Education Channel: Part 2" »
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...
Weblog Analysis Criteria
Sharepoint as an Intranet
Imagine a spectrum where on one end is social software and the other is the Intranet. The social software is a centralized service that acts as a many-to-many communication medium. Centralized in the sense that all of the weblogs, wikis, and oth...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Team
This months, the Harvard Business Review published an excellent article discussing the right conditions where collaboration can flourish. In large organizations, where the workforce is distributed, there are certain elements that need to be in pla...
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...
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...
Enterprise 2.0 Blueprint
I have to admit that I am more of a visual person. I like to see all of the pieces put together in order to get an idea of what I am looking at and how I might be able to utilize it. After a couple of weeks, I put this model together to pull to...
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...
