As organizations begin to pick themselves up after the economic hammering they took in 2008-2009, there’s a choice to be made on how value is derived by the enterprise. Value in terms of internal efficiency, ecosystem growth, innovation, cost management, community contribution and customer centricity. Costs have been cut to the bone preparing for a […]
I don’t do product announcement reviews here on Pretzel Logic. But since I do focus on how social computing/Enterprise 2.0 can accelerate process performance, this announcement by MindTouch and SnapLogic coming together to focus on process optimization is welcome news. From the MindTouch website: Organizations that have embraced the benefits of web-based applications are now […]
Marc Benioff unveiled what he described as Salesforces’ “biggest breakthrough” – an enterprise social networking platform dubbed Chatter. Here’s a video interview, courtesy of Dennis Howlett, that provides insight into the drivers, challenges and opportunities for moving to more open constructs in the workplace, as Salesforce sees it: VentureBeat has a straightforward run down […]
I’m at the KMWorld Conference in San Jose for a couple of hours this afternoon, sitting in on the Intranet 2.0 session with Toby Ward. Toby’s got some good pointers on the value and current state of Intranet 2.0. Many findings from his firms Intranet 2.0 research report as well. I’ve tried to capture some […]
ZDNet Blogger and eternal pragmatist, Dennis Howlett is at it again. As a follow up to his original “Enterprise 2.0: What a Crock” post and an attempt by a panel at the Enterprise 2.0 conference to respond to his contention, he validates his original argument, saying: What I find staggering is that despite the panel’s […]
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 […]