My Day Job

They announced our 3rd quarter results last week . Things are not going in the right direction. Headcount reductions are happening. Does this mean that I will be a free agent by the end of the year…who knows? But being the good boy scout that I am, my motto is be prepared. So if you, [...]

FLATNESSES

Dion Hinchcliffe has just posted State of the Enterprise 2.0. Absolutely worth reading. He reviews the lessons learned in the Enterprise 2.0 world in the past 12 months since Andrew McAfee proposed this definition. Hinchcliffe provides 7 specific lessons learned:

Lesson #1: Enterprise 2.0 is going to happen in your organization with you or without [...]

Back Door Adoption of Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

Steve Rubel posted an interesting commentary, clearly directed at corporate IT management. He points out part of the reason why adpotion of Web 2.0 practices in the enterprise is slow to happen:
Unfortunately for corporate IT, however, they will find that they can’t move as fast as Web 2.0 does. Talent isn’t the issue here. IT [...]

1%ers, 10%ers & 90%ers

One of the main things I am working on now is, how to change cultural and behavioral norms to improve process and productivity. Of course my hammer for attacking this “nail” is Enterprise 2.0. I believe that the tools of E2.0 will be great productivity enhancers and innovation drivers, but I am one of the [...]

The Impact of Social Media

I spent most of today reading (and re-reading) a lot of material about social media while working on a presentation. As I looked back over what I read, I started to rethink, what is the impact of social media on the enterprise. (For clarity, I am using “social media” here to mean the conversation that [...]

Presentations

If you do powerpoint presentations and you haven’t seen this one, look at it now.

Vanity Notice

I am an avid listener of the For Immediate Release podcast by Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson. I posted a comment on their show blog last week, which they read on Monday’s show. Not quite 15 minutes of fame, but I will take what I can get. Scan to 49:20 in the podcast to hear [...]

Cars and Horses

The other day I was watching an old John Wayne movie, Big Jake. I one of the early scenes there is a cultural clash between the new-fangled automobile and the tried and true mode of transportation, the horse and mule. Of course in the movie big John is the horse rider and those in the [...]

Enterprise 2.0 and The Innovator’s Dilemma

From the Headshift blog, I found this fascinating perspective on how many (most) large organization IT departments look at Enterprise 2.0.
 Behind “Enterprise 2.0″ Performance: Exploitation or Exploration?
My favorite quote is:
At the same time, Microsoft, IBM and likes currently are wondering what to do with social computing. They take a lot of time to market relevant [...]

Friction…Cost…Hmmm…

I just read the R/W/Web post titled Creative Entrepreneurs: The Next Masters of the Universe. The concluding paragraph says:
A big reason that power is shifting to creative people is the reduction in inter-company friction. You can outsource pretty much everything, other than creativity. More importantly, you can use multiple smaller, specialist vendors on something close [...]