Planet Enterprise 2.0

Jevon McDonald, someone whose opinions I rate highly, has posted a stellar piece on ‘The uncertain future of Blogging‘ today. The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned by blogging. Blogging was the conversation, blogging was the vehicle, blogging was the network. Now blogging plays a very small role in all of those things. Jevon goes [...]

There’s an interesting dynamic I’ve been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it was entirely possible that the Mumbai attackers were monitoring communications and the media [...]

There is a huge difference between verified information, speculation, incorrect information and disinformation. The net is buzzing about the communication enabled by Twitter, Flickr, youtube, wikipedia and bloggers from Mumbai, with CNN stating “It was the day social media appeared to come of age and signaled itself as a news-gathering force to be reckoned with.” There are [...]

When most people think of how businesses are organized, they visualize command and control management: the pine tree visual with the leaders at the top. Since we are entering the Western festive season here are some appropriate images to illustrate this. The traditional ‘Christmas Tree’ pyramid, with senior management at the top and orders cascading down [...]

There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are academics at Oxford University and Harvard Business School respectively). [...]

I’ve just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL’s partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I’ve written before about HCL’s ‘Employee First’ management innovations: I previously met HCL CEO Vineet Nayar at [...]

The Twitterank experience this week is a sobering example of how equilibrium around an online application can quickly change. Twitter is a powerful tool used by a huge number of people worldwide (Japan enjoys the greatest usage and the most sophisticated usage model - only the Japanese currently enjoy user groups using ‘Twicco‘, as this video [...]

After my post yesterday afternoon about Twitterank, its creator Ryo Chijiiwa contacted me by email to ask if I’d like to hear his side of the story: I offered him a guest post. Over to Ryo: I blame the Family Guy. There I was in my hotel room, where I’m staying while in NY for [...]

Mana from the heavens for cloud sceptics - on a day a lot of professional photographers lost all their images due to the failure of photo hosting site Digital Railroad which went under - as Twitter users fanned their egos en masse to parade their ‘twitterank‘ to their followers. Twitterrank has no apparent purpose beyond a [...]

Oracle, who have several code line families to care for and nurture, are announcing Siebel CRM 8.1.1 today, and more intriguingly from a collaboration perspective ‘Oracle Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Gadgets for Sales’, more evidence of the effort being put into Social CRM by Oracle. As the images demonstrate, the CRM ‘Gadgets’ are essentially small floating [...]

I’ll be speaking at a breakfast briefing in London UK on the 20th November on the subject of ‘How to get the most value out of collaborative technologies‘ for Fujitsu Services, whose Graeme Mackay, Business Manager of Corporate Information Systems, will also talk about Fujitsu’s experiences around implementations and their internal usage. If you’d like [...]

This week’s Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a ‘Unified National Smart Grid’: a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the USA. The proposed smart grid would take advantage of [...]

The enterprise juggernauts in the Enterprise resource planning (ERP) space are duking it out in rapidly changing business conditions - SAP are offering packages of applications with zero percent financing, Oracle are on the acquisition trail, buying regulatory compliance rules company Haley, their tenth buy this year - in an effort to keep momentum. Small to [...]

Rock legend Neil Young surprised and delighted the audience at SalesForce’s DreamForce conference today by having his electric and natural gas powered 1959 Lincoln Continental Mk IV convertible driven onto the stage (silent and beautiful) as the clouds above San Francisco unleashed intermittent torrential rain. Marc Benioff had previously made major keynote announcements, first introducing [...]

There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic (which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world) have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. Last week Virgin got a lot of publicity for firing [...]

As winter draws in throughout the northern hemisphere, the silver lining of the recession we are descending into for the collaboration tools industry is the huge use case justifications for strapped companies of all sizes to take advantage of their products. In an era which is going to see some enterprises in suffering industry sectors fighting [...]

Every so often you come across a web application that is a game changer: the utility of browser plugin reframeit is a hugely powerful adjunct to your use of the entire web. The video above demonstrates marking up the transcript of a political speech with associated facts and links using reframeit that will be associated [...]

I attended a regional ‘Lotus Collaboration Summit‘ yesterday - a very helpful road show style event IBM put on to help flesh out the state of the Lotus universe and give partners a chance to demo their products to the customers in attendance. The big annual international event for Lotus is January’s LotusSphere in Orlando, [...]

At the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara October 16th and 17th we dived into some fascinating glimpses of the future. Web 3.0 isn’t just a suffix upgrade, rolling over from the increasingly fuzzy buzz around Web 2.0. This conference was an attempt to bring some further definition to the semantic web, a future where [...]

I’ve just attended the one day, highly-focused executive ‘Cloud Summit‘ conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. The exhibits on the ground floor of the museum [...]