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 […]
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 […]
Bottom Up Adoption, CIOs Watch Out
Yesterday I was at a dinner on the sidelines of Enterprise 2.0 conference and during the dinner, everyone present was asked to offer their thoughts on what is happening in the space. Since my focus is more on Open Source and Cloud Computing, I was more of a bystander in this space than an expert. […]
The True Way To Measure E2.0 ROI
As Enterprise 2.0 continues to evolve, the one question that continues to go unanswered is how to measure ROI.The question came up again today at an E2.0 “town hall” at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.My response wasn’t popular, but I think it’s worth re…
When Should Management Push Enterprise 2.0 Adoption?
After the Boston edition of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, IBM’s Rawn Shah wrote a great follow-up post outlining ten observations from the event. A couple points that I found myself agreeing with wholeheartedly were: Adoption is about transforming human behaviors at work – More folks are starting to recognize that it is not trivial to […]
Is Enterprise 2.0 Just A Toy?
One of the things that bugs me about the current state of E2.0 is that even its advocates don’t seem to take it seriously. I just had a fantastic time at the E2.0 conference in Boston, but I noticed some worrying trends. I offer my thoughts in the spirit of tough love and constructive criticism, […]
Enterprise 2.0: New Tech, Same Old Marketing
Walking the floor at the Enterprise 2.0 conference today I was struck how after all these years the needle hasn’t moved much in terms of how a technology company markets themselves. There’s the obligatory vendor pavilion with the obligatory hard copy collateral, obligatory demo stations, obligatory elevator pitches and the obligatory badge reading and card […]
Early Peek at Speaker Submissions for Enterprise 2.0 Boston 2010
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference Boston Call for Papers has been open for a little over a week now. While the final number of speaker proposals will number in the hundreds (450+ for SF 2009), the initial 29 submissions are a rich vein of current thinking about Enterprise 2.0. As you can see in the tag […]
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 […]
Don’t Worry it’s Only Enterprise 2.0
It’s been quite an event at the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week. Plenty to share with non-attendees. Dr. Wave of Google Wave fame made an appearance, based on customer feedback Enterprise 2.0 is not a crock, and claims that when the recession is over we’ll be working differently due to Enterprise 2.0 solutions. I’ve also […]
Is Enterprise 2.0 A Crock? The Practitioners Answer….
This is the one in answer to a recent post by provocateur Dennis Howlett in which Howlett asked whether Enterprise 2.0 is in fact a crock. Moderated by David Berlind from TechWeb he had a bevvy of Enterprise 2.0 practitioners. Therein lies the Big Lie. Enterprise 2.0 pre-supposes that you can upend hierarchies for the […]
Integrating Google Wave into the Enterprise
The one we’d all been waiting for – ever since the Rasmussen brothers announced Wave at Google I/O in May, we’ve been waiting for some hard examples of the power that Wave can bring. Gregory D’Alesandre (Dr Wave), Product Manager for Google Wave ran presented three examples of Wave integrations from Novell, ThoughtWorks and SAP. […]
What E2.0 Champions are Doing Right… and Wrong
Andrew McAfee, from the Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, believes we’ve reached a tipping point in terms of the acceptance of the tools and techniques of enterprise 2.0. McAfee sees some positive signs and some danger areas – “We have the opportunity to snatch defeat out of the jaws of success”. […]
2009 – The Year of “A-ha!”
Tammy Erickson, President of nGenera Innovation Network proclaimed that 2009 will be remembered as the year of “A-ha!”. Her presentation was very much in the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. Erickson pointed out some problems impacting upon the adoption of enterprise 2.0 and the changes needed to mitigate those problems. She believes that the […]
Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration
Oliver Marks and Sameer Patel – two of the leading lights in Enterprise 2.0 (that is experience in actually doing it rather than merely talking about it) presented this session. Their aim with the session was to move from “pontification to real world discussions” – a noble objective. In discussing “the Big Idea” around Enterprise […]
