Rolling out Features of an Emergent Collaboration Platform
After selecting a vendor for your enterprise collaboration initiative it’s tempting to just release the product with all the features to the company. This is not the most effective way to roll out a platform as it will overwhelm the employees who are going to be using it. Many tools and platforms today come with [...]
Want to See the Future of Social Business?
TweetThere are executives who are social and there are executives who are anti-social. There are executives who do social well and executives that don’t. Some claim to be leading social organizations, and there are those that boast that they are not. There are executives who have thousands of followers, and there are executives that have [...]
Focus on Value or Features of Enterprise 2.0?
When discussing emergent collaboration solutions with clients or with organizations seeking to implement the best piece of advice that I (and I’m sure many others) can give is to focus on the value and not on the features or the technology of a platform. This means that instead of telling employees that they can post [...]
Global Intranet Trends for 2011 (part 3)
Check out the Global Intranet Trends part 1 and part 2 here. Just to re-cap all of the data and the charts shown in this post are from a report which Jane McConnell put together. You can find the report available for purchase as well as a link to her new survey for 2012 here. Let’s start things [...]
Global Intranet Trends 2011 (part 2)
Check out Global Intranet Trends 2011 (part 1) One of the things we asked in out State of Enterprise 2.0 study (which we are releasing in a few weeks) was, “what are the business drivers of E2.0?” In her survey around Global Intranet Trends for 2011, Jane asked a similar question around what the intranet priority [...]
Global Intranet Trends for 2011 (part 1)
Jane McConnell just released the results of a survey she was been conducting around intranets. 440 organizations from around the world participated in the survey which focused on what leaders are doing at their companies. I’ll take a look at some of the key findings and share my insights and ideas here. Jane has identified [...]
What You Can Learn About Enterprise Collaboration from the American Hospital Association
A few weeks ago at Enterprise 2.0, I had the privilege of meeting Karthik Chakkarapani from the American Hospital Association who actually presented at the conference. I, unfortunately, was not able to attend but I did have several conversations with Karthik who sent me his presentation, which I think is just great! Karthik walked through [...]
Thoughts from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference- June 2011
I just came back from the E2.0 conference in Boston which as usual was a fantastic gathering of really great and smart people. I arrived late Monday evening and had meetings pretty much all day on Tuesday. I had the opportunity to attend a few sessions on Wednesday and made sure to get plenty of [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Boston – 3 Expectations
Hello to everyone who considers themselves to be 2.0 – I suspect that many of you are descending on Boston this week with the one and only one goal in mind – to showcase and to absorb as much of the new and shiny 2.0 world as possible. I am doing exactly the same. If [...]
Building Your Enterprise Collaboration A-Team
In doing research for my book on enterprise collaboration I’ve been spending some time interviewing and speaking with various organizations. I’ll be sharing in-depth insights and ideas when the book comes out but I will discuss some of the high-level learnings on this blog. One of the things I’ve been exploring recently is the composition [...]
9 Reasons Why You Might Be Experiencing Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Challenges
I’ve been noticing a few common elements around organizations that are having trouble with adoption of enterprise 2.0 technologies. Adoption is oftentimes the greatest challenge that organizations are faced with. The first thing many people want to do is immediately find a solution. However, it is not possible to find a solution without first [...]
Guide to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference
The enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston is happening in just a few weeks and as usual I’m quite excited to attend to see colleagues, friends, and to learn about what other practitioners, brands, and vendors are up to in the enterprise collaboration industry. I will also be speaking with practitioners for my book on enterprise collaboration which [...]
Four reasons enterprise software should skip native mobile apps
The desire to “consumerize” mobile apps for their own sake is stoking today’s outsized enthusiasm with device-specific enterprise mobile apps at a time when HTML5 is right there staring us all in the face. Tony Byrne, Enterprise 2.0 B.S. List: Term No. 1 Consumerization The runaway success of the iPhone app store has demonstrated that [...]
Is Dell the World’s Most Social Company? (Scorecard)
“What the heck are you doing?” Yet the language was probably a little more colorful. Three days after the launch of Chief Blogger Lionel Menchaca’s blog, all hell broke loose. Several people within Dell were upset with him for linking to Engadget story about exploding laptops. But Menchaca wasn’t worried about being fired. He had [...]
Sorry Facebook, Here’s Why Google+ Plus is Better
By Mark Fidelman on July 11, 2011
Zuckerberg is a man so certain of the success of his quest that he can afford to ignore the latest attempt by Google to disrupt the social space. He displays a confidence similar to a card shark who has devoted a prodigious effort in studying every possible move by his competitors. And who now feels [...]
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