In brief: the advent of social software change shifted the balance of power between IT and business people by reinforcing the autonomy of the second. But as social networks projects become digital workplaces ones over time, the need for internal coherence implies a strong comeback of IT departments to guarantee social urbanization of the information [...]
In short : being’s both a matter of survival and credibility it’s more important for enterprise social software process to structure around processes than for business process players to socialize. But this bipolar approach in terms of venders should not make businesses forget they need both of them. It’s obvious that one of the biggest [...]
Summary : the predictable evolution of social and 2.0 strategies will cause a reorganization of a landscape that’s essentially crowded by social networks todays. The already-started evolution of business tools, the need for tools helping to manage and measure the human capital in a new paradigm will cause a radical evolution of traditional players as [...]
It does not matter things are seen from the people or technology point of view, since we all know that people seldom embrace new things keeping their eyes shut and without questionning (even more in the workplace) we all understand that users have to be taken by the hand and accompanied. On the other hand, [...]
Among all the projects that have a “2.0 label”, it’s possible to make a distinction between those that are mainly about social networkings and those that aim at bringing traditional office applications on the cloud. Each kind addresses specific needs and has its own barriers. In one case it’s about changing the way people work, [...]
I recently came across this this chart about what IT departments are currently thinking about. What inspires me some thoughts. First point, as mentioned in the post where I found this document, there’s nothing really new. Many of these issues have been discussed for years, some are more recent but even when names change, the [...]
Many questioning about enterprise 2.0 these last weeks. How to make it work, how help companies to understand it, how to calculate the ROI ? So many questions that, at the end, can be summed up in only one : undestranding how these new logics can integrate into the existing and add to it. Without [...]
An interesting and salutary move is being iniated in the small world of both web and enterprise 2.0. It’s about what I would call a “de-technologization” of the concept and, according to me, will take back enterprise 2.0 to a ground it should not have left : the enterprise as a productive organization that must [...]
In the “let’s make 2.0 a performance oriented tool instead of a nice concept”, some more ideas. What are enteprise 2.0 specialists biggest challenges ? Overriding fear and have the tools adopted in order to demonstrate their added value. Because by dint of hearig about agility, informal, off project spontaneous connexions between individuals, decision makers [...]
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