A couple of weeks ago, I took part in the Enterprise 2.0 Conference San Francisco. As usual, it was a very interesting event, and I was glad to make my contribution to the discussion. Below is the presentation I prepared for the Enterprise 2.0 conference’s Enterprise2Open session. My session was not meant to be just a regular speech. I wanted to create a discussion and share the stage with other E2Open participants. That is why many of the slides in the presentation contain questions to the audience.
I thought it would be a good thing to continue this discussion here, in this blog. Please tell me what you think about the role of email in the day-to-day life of business users. Do you think email should be merely replaced by the new tools? Is there an opportunity to leverage email and integrate it with the Enterprise 2.0 applications?
(Guest post by Andrew Filev, Founder & CEO of Wrike, a Project Management 2.0 startup. Andrew is a frequent speaker and recognized expert in project management disciplines, and he blogs @ Project Management 2.0)
Thanks Andrew – a good dose of realism here. I would add ‘asynchronous’ to the list of email’s positive features.
Interesting presentation making some really good points. It would be interesting to hear questions that were raised from the audience following this presentation and responses given. What was the general consensus form the audiences perspective?
@Gary
Agreed.
By the way, Wave tries to provide both asynchronous and synchronous _features_, but I’d say that _experience_ and _usage_ is still asynchronous.
@Dav,
I wish I knew. The E2Open ran out before we knew it, so I didn’t even have the time to walk through all my key points:-) I hope I get more time next time. I’ll submit a paper for E2.0 conference in Boston, and everybody is more than welcome to vote for it. I’d be happy to leave time for a big Q&A, so we can turn the session into a live discussion.