2.0 Adoption Council
Nomination Season Begins! Who will be Internal Evangelist of the Year 2010?
It’s that time again. Last year was our inaugural celebration awarding a Council member, “Internal Evangelist of the Year.” (#IEoY09) We created this award to recognize an individual who has gone above and beyond the #dayjob requirements and truly has been an inspiration for the company leading a radical (and most often) difficult transformation of [...]
Adoption is Dead. Long live Adoption!
Rumors surrounding the death of adoption have been greatly exaggerated. The 2.0 Enterprisey crowd is gearing up to head to Boston for our annual pilgrimage. This will be my fourth conference as a participant and board member. Having watched and often interpreted the trends in this sector, I find it interesting to report that things have not [...]
Let Go and Let Talent
What is the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future? According to a new study by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, CEO’s point to creativity as the engine for future growth. Creative leaders are key to driving the kind of change large organizations require to wrestle with global complexity and information overload. [...]
The 2.0 Adoption Council is now part of The Dachis Group
What? Wow! How come? History Let’s begin at the beginning. The beginning of the social business (r)evolution didn’t begin in with web 2.0, it began with web 1.0 in the mid-90s. From research I published in 2000, we wrote this about the company Jeff founded in 1995, Razorfish: Razorfish’s vision states, “Everything that can be digital, WILL [...]
Social is as Social Does
One of the greatest joys of owning your own business is you get to break the rules when it’s warranted. We have a hard and fast rule about Council membership that states only large enterprises can join with more than 10K employees. Chris McGrath of ThoughtFarmer referred Ephraim Freed to me when we were first getting started. I [...]
Enterprise 2.0: The Next Narrative
Enterprise 2.0 was launched in the spring of 2006 as a result of Andrew McAfee’s case study interviews in 2005 on Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), an investment bank in London. The story unfolded after he and his team studied the work of J.P. Rangaswami, who was then Global CIO of the bank. It’s sometimes surprising to me [...]
