The UPDATED Decision Maker’s Guide to Jive Software vs. ThinkPassenger vs. Spigit Vs. BrightIdea
Tweet Innovation Edition You and I are trapped in a two dimensional corporation. The corporate version of Carl Sagan’s Flat Land. Where we only see a cross section of the truth. But if we were able elevate the corporation into the third dimension we’d have much better visibility and access to information. And that’s where [...]
Spigit vs. Jive Software vs. BrightIdea: a Decision Makers Guide
Thomas Edison’s most important achievement was the development of an effective incandescent light bulb. Most people believe he invented the light bulb but in fact he improved upon a 50 year old idea. 50 years to create what we now know to be one of the most important inventions of the 19th century. Imagine if [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Trends: Which vendors are in the running?
While doing some Enterprise 2.0 vendor research, we discovered some interesting trends from the E2.0 space. Using Google’s Double-Click Ad Planner, we were able to establish a general picture of the companies’ overall traffic. It’s still very early in the Enterprise 2.0 race, but Yammer appears to be the best horse on a muddy track. [...]
Cisco’s I-Prize – the Next Wave of Open Innovation
Cisco has launched its second I-Prize global innovation contest, which is being powered by Spigit (disclosure: I work for Spigit). The I-Prize is a competition where entrepreneurs put forth their ideas for businesses related to one of the following: The future of work: solutions that will change the way companies and organizations do business The [...]
The Ultimate Competitive Advantage
Why did it take until 1946 for the first computer to be invented? All of the elements were in place by 1918. It’s not because there weren’t companies capable of creating the computer. In fact in the late 1800’s over 1000 electrical apparatus companies were formed to build electric devices. 6 elements of knowledge need [...]
Hutch Carpenter on the Innovation X Factor
An idea can create cities, billion dollar companies and new futures. But most great ideas never get off the ground because the right talent and resources are not assembled to act on them. Despite the common wisdom, most of the truly great ideas I have seen in the past 20 years have not come out [...]
Why SMBs Need Social Software – Dunbar’s Number Limits Metcalfe’s Law
A general observation of collaborative work is this: The larger and more diverse are your personal network of contacts, the higher the quality of your ideas and project work. In the enterprise market, the opportunity being seized by companies is to better connect employees. The sheer size of these firms makes it obvious that they [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Conference Gets All Social in Its Call for Papers
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference has opened its Call for Papers for the Boston 2010 show. And boy, it’s changing things up. In a good way. The Conference is using Spigit to manage the collection and selection of proposals for sessions at the Boston event. What this does is make the whole process more transparent, shareable [...]
Gov 2.0 – City of Manor Taps Citizens' Ideas for Improvement
In a recent Forbes column, Tim O’Reilly included this quote from Thomas Jefferson: Where every man is a sharer in the direction of his ward-republic, or of some of the higher ones, and feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year, but [...]
Would You Manage CRM with a Wiki?
Or human resources with a blog? How about project management with forums? Funny questions to ask, no doubt. Of course it’s not possible to effectively address many of the critical business functions using basic Enterprise 2.0 tools. Yet when it comes to social software, it often seems that the only game in town is to [...]
Warburg Pincus Invests $10 Million in Spigit
Well, this is pretty cool. I’m pleased to announce that Spigit has received a $10 million equity investment from Warburg Pincus. The investment will be used for the usual things a growing start-up needs: product development, sales and marketing and program management. Here’s coverage in the New York Times and TechCrunch. I’ve been with Spigit [...]
Use Your Company Blog to Catch Search Term Typos
If your company or product name can be misspelled, this is for you. At Spigit, a prospective customer related this to us recently. A few months ago, they had heard of Spigit in one of the usual ways – reading, word of mouth, etc. At some point, they decided to learn more. It probably went [...]
IBM Public Policy Prediction Markets: Collective Wisdom on Education, Transportation, Energy and Healthcare
IBM recently launched its Smarter Cities initiative. Part of its overall SmarterPlanet project, Smarter Cities is an effort to find solutions to the problems that will occur due to our ever-increasing population growth in urban centers around the world: In 1900, only 13% of the world’s population lived in cities. By 2050, that number will [...]
Gary Hamel on Enterprise 2.0 and the Post-Establishment Age
Last week at the first-ever Spigit Customer Summit, I had a chance to listen to Gary Hamel live. He delivered the keynote for the event, “Inventing Management 2.0.” If you’re a reader of Gary’s blog or his books, you know he’s a big proponent of empowering employees and changing management paradigms. See his 25 Stretch [...]
