Archive for November, 2006
What do Enterprise 2.0 and Mrs. Robinson have in common?
I’m going for seduction, but the real answer is a good post by Mike Gotta an analyst at the Burton Group. Mike brought up some good advice for e2.0 evangelists: the next time you’re touting your wares, add a footnote on “security, identity, records management, integration, interoperability and other concerns.” I’ve been somewhat in denial [...]
Early market test data coming in…
Over on the Itensil blog, I posted a note about early user adoption. To summarize, we’ve begun our Early Access Program for interested users. We’ve employed a useful web lead generation tool called Salesbuilder to categorize and qualify the interested parties in the product. For me, as a researcher, the early data coming in is [...]
Fun with Outsourcing…
Saw this on an outsourcing discussion group and had to share… They’re talking about outsourcing architectural drawings to India. Re: Paris?? so which projects you do can you send me a detail list in email so that we can mutually understand and exchange some projects.. Reply From: CB Date: Nov/17/06 – 20:05 (GMT) [...]
More user adoption… and so it begins!
Three items of note, coming in from the mainstream tech media. CNet, CIO Magazine and eWeek have recent enterprise 2.0 stories showcasing web 2.0 technologies at use or in trials at major corporations. I’m particularly interested in the American Express experiment: From CNet: American Express is experimenting with internal use of wikis. On its customer-facing [...]
McAfee’s “Empty Quarter,” mind meld, and backlash.
I was encouraged when McAfee wrote about how his new Harvard graduates would be coming into the workforce with an “I want my MTV Internet” attitude. This sentiment is what I’ve actually been trying to get across here and here. His latest post on the “Empty Quarter” is even closer to my personal experience researching [...]
¡Ay, caramba! Blogging is work.
I’ve been posting on the new ZDNet blog. They tell me it’s live, but there’s a glitch in the technology that is preventing it from showing up in the blog roll. You can view it here. I’m very interested in off-beat IT Services stories, so please email me (susanATitservicesadvisoryDOTcom) with any interesting ideas.
