Social business maturity and digital transformation
Social enterprise — communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across business silos and departmental boundaries — is a core part of digital business transformation initiatives. Research from IDC sheds light on this topic.

CxO Talk guest Hinchcliffe proclaims, ‘IT is dead’
During the latest episode of CxO Talk, my weekly video talk show with co-host Vala Afshar, social business expert Dion Hinchcliffe made provocative assertions about IT. Dion is chief strategy officer of consulting firm, Dachis Group, an experienced enterprise architect, book author, and fellow ZDNet columnist so we should examine his comments carefully. In our discussion, Dion […]

Marketing and IT tensions: ‘CxO Talk’ debuts today
A new breed of chief marketing officer seeks data-driven answers to tough challenges, such as establishing clear links between marketing spend, activities, and specific business outcomes. To meet these goals, marketers have taken over an increasing slice of the overall budget that enterprises allocate to technology. Not surprisingly, this trend corresponds to the growth of […]

54% of blog posts contain pure facts
A post by Dion Hinchcliffe on “social business maturity” made me laugh and cry at the same time. It’s one of those misleading semi-analytical semi-research posts that will be joyfully accepted by most people as solid truth. However, it ain’t. If it’s anything solid, it’s solid suggestimation. Why? The post smacks the reader in the face […]

Top 10 People to Follow in the Enterprise 2.0 Space and Why (Pt 1)
There are a lot of great thinkers and practitioners in the Enterprise 2.0 space whom I follow for ideas, information, and advice. The space as a whole is still fairly new and there really aren’t THAT many folks involved in Enterprise 2.0 initiatives, especially when you compare that to the number of “social media experts.” […]
Economics 2.0
Sometimes a single session at a conference sums up the good and bad points about an entire event – I had one of those times this morning. Quite appropriately given the theme for this conference, and given the current economic climate, Dion Hinchcliffe’s workshop was entitled “Highly Effective Strategies for Putting Your Business on a Recession […]