Uncategorized
Social Business by the Numbers
While the blustering goes on in the blogosphere, I thought I’d (ahem) cut to the chase and get serious about the Social Business opportunity in, well, spreadsheet terms. I popped into a little discussion between Adam Holt at Morgan Stanley and Tony Zingale and Bryan LeBlanc of Jive Software (JIVE). Although specific business gains [...]
CES show for the Enterprise launches with CITE – Be there!
Get Connected at CITE in San Francisco (March 4-7, 2012). The onslaught of new devices and ease of use for circumventing a large company’s boring IT environment, has been gaining traction in every corner of the knowledge worker universe. Finally, a new conference has cropped up to take a look at these issues (and opportunities) [...]
News Flash: Social in the Enterprise is not for Amateurs
In the early days of experimentation with 2.0 in the Enterprise, anyone could really fire up a wiki or blog, port some RSS feeds, and call an impromptu meeting in the cafeteria to recruit a renegade team to collaborate and share. A lot of the enthusiasm and passion that surrounded these tools stemmed from these [...]
Mama Weer All Crazee-Social Now!
Indeed, a Quiet Riot is percolating in the heretofore boring ERP sector. I spotted Josh Greenbaum‘s post on “Enterprise Relationship Planning” this afternoon. In the Council, we have dredged up a 90s label– The Extended Enterprise– to categorize discussions about how our members are architecting their socio-collaborative initiatives to span partners in their supplier, distributor, [...]
Open Letter to @dahowlett… Customers at #e20conf?
My good friend, Dennis Howlett (@dahowlett), has been a thoughtful critic of Enterprise 2.0 for many years. Most of the time I agree with his analysis (unfortunately, as he tends to suck the wind out of the hype balloon). I saw a tweet this morning from Dennis who was simply asking, “…many customers with stories [...]
Screeeeech. Oops. Errrr, Sorry.
Well? The good news is the ITSinsider blog is back. The bad news is the ReadWriteWeb relationship is not going to move forward as planned. In hindsight, we should not have moved so fast to announce our relationship. It was important to make a clean cut sooner rather than later. We have all parted friends [...]
