Oliver Marks and I are co-chairing the Enterprise 2.0 Strategy and Execution Planning Track at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco next week. Details on each session can be found here. The premise of this track is two-fold: – help folks understand the conceiving, selling and planning phases of a transformation to social constructs […]
I just saw something go by by my tweet stream that brought back some old memories (thanks @rpolom) – the 2009 Gartner report on the horizontal Portal Vendor landscape. Here’s the Magic Quadrant: Around 2001, I led a strategy and execution planning engagement for a then F500 Hi tech firm looking to recast how its […]
I stumbled on this gem from Euan Semple labeled: The secret to success with Enterprise 2.0 … Euan comments: Don’t try to get your powerful people to behave differently – they have everything to lose. Don’t try to improve your existing processes – you will be seen to be breaking something. He does a far […]
If you’re a large organization using enterprise content management systems (ECM), chances are that its powering images, documents and records management, and web content. These systems enforce roles, workflows, access control and versioning to enable the creation, management and dissemination of media assets. What this means is that from the very beginning of a given […]
Simple: Delete all emails and attachments from the server after 45 days. Everyone flocked to the wiki for fear of loosing access to valuable discussions and attachments in the future. That’s what a friend who works there told me over 4th of July BBQ. Sounds a bit brute force-ish no? It does but its an […]
Earlier this week, a post by Thomas Vanderwal on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 caught fire on Twitter and a few blogs. What started as a spirited discussion on whether Sharepoint is a respectable Enterprise 2.0 offering or not, quickly turned into a debate on Enterprise 2.0 definitions. Mike Gotta masterfully jumped in front of the parade and […]
Irwin Lazar has a new post up on the Enterprise 2.0 Blog labeled “Where are Enterprise 2.0 Dashboards” where he makes some good points about the need for Dashboards in the social enterprise. Having had scoped and planned many sales and marketing portals and intranets for large organizations, my first reaction is one of panic […]