Social Media and Employee Engagement, 19.12.2009: Case Studies

Social Media and Employee Engagement, 19.12.2009: Case Studies
by Harish Kotadia: "Social Media can be effectively used “internally” within an organization to engage employees, the way it is used externally to engage customers. I want to share with you a good Slideshare presentation by Polly Pearson of EMC on Social Media: Strategy & Execution that has several good case studies on internal Social Networks."

Tags: socialmedia, casestudy, strategy, presentation

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, 07.12.2009: Reflections on Surviving Disruptive Innovations

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, 07.12.2009: Reflections on Surviving Disruptive Innovations
by Irving Wladawsky-Berger: "As I was writing the blog, my personal experiences at IBM kept flashing through my mind, both our own near-death experience back in the early 1990s, and what we learned a few years later as we embraced the Internet and came up with the e-business market strategy, which played such a key role in helping to transform the business models and culture of the company. IT and media are clearly very different industries, but there are parallels from which perhaps we can learn. Let me discuss three such potential lessons."

Tags: ibm, innovation, media, disruption, strategy, economy, management

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 10.12.2009: What will power next-generation businesses?

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 10.12.2009: What will power next-generation businesses?
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "This is a new Internet-powered business landscape. Self-organizing peer production is the motive force and network effects are the new market share."

Tags: enterprise2.0, collaboration, socialmedia, socialnetworking, strategy, business

McKinsey Quarterly, 08.12.2009: IT in the new normal McKinsey Global Survey results

McKinsey Quarterly, 08.12.2009: IT in the new normal McKinsey Global Survey results
by Roger Roberts and Johnson Sikes: "Recession or no recession, corporate and IT leaders continue to see a key role for IT, especially in regard to capturing efficiencies across the enterprise. Many expect IT investments to grow soon."

Tags: enterprise, it, research, crisis, strategy

Blogging Innovation, 06.12.2009: Four Quadrants of Innovation

Blogging Innovation, 06.12.2009: Four Quadrants of Innovation
by Hutch Carpenter: "Building on that, I wanted a framework for delineating innovations based on their technology and business impacts. Because they're not necessarily the same. The four quadrants below describe the dynamics for innovations according to their technology and market impacts"

Tags: innovation, strategy, business, creativity, management

BusinessWeek, 03.12.2009: Beware Social Media Snake Oil

BusinessWeek, 03.12.2009: Beware Social Media Snake Oil
by Stephen Baker: "Hordes of marketing 'experts' are promoting the value of wikis, social networks, and blogs. All the hype may obscure the real potential of these online tools"

Tags: socialmedia, business, strategy, roi, collaboration

MindTouch, Inc Blog, 30.11.2009: Enterprise 2.0 Strategy Guide – A tool matrix for internal champions

MindTouch, Inc Blog, 30.11.2009: Enterprise 2.0 Strategy Guide – A tool matrix for internal champions
by Mark Fidelman: "Imagine you’re in a cube farm, perhaps the 6�6’ grey type we’re all so familiar with. You’re at the center of the first floor of a multi-story commercial building. No windows, just a view of coworkers typing on their laptops and placing calls to check on the status of their projects. It’s difficult to know what’s happening outside of your surrounding area."

Tags: enterprise2.0, strategy, collaboration, enterprise, bestpractice

V3.co.uk, 10.11.2009: Summit: Is the ECM industry up to the information overload challenge?

V3.co.uk, 10.11.2009: Summit: Is the ECM industry up to the information overload challenge?
by Phil Muncaster: "New tools will help organisations store and search rich media content"

Tags: ecm, data, opentext, software, strategy, innovation

ReadWriteEnterprise, 09.10.2009: Ray Ozzie's New Social Lab: What It Means For Enterprise 2.0

ReadWriteEnterprise, 09.10.2009: Ray Ozzie's New Social Lab: What It Means For Enterprise 2.0
by Alex Williams: "Now that Ray Ozzie has stepped into the ring with the news that Microsoft is launching a full-on social lab, it's clear that the Enterprise 2.0 movement is moving into a new phase."

Tags: enterprise2.0, microsoft, strategy, socialsoftware, social, collaboration, fuse

Enterpise2Open, 07.10.2009: 5 key topics to be discussed for a Enterprise 2.0 strategy

Enterpise2Open, 07.10.2009: 5 key topics to be discussed for a Enterprise 2.0 strategy
by bn: "...it’s time to consolidate the topics to be discussed in regards to improve and enhance Enterprise 2.0 projects."

Tags: enterprise2.0, adoption, business, social, strategy, organization, bestpractice

destinationCRM.com, 05.10.2009: 8 Reasons to Revisit Your ECM Strategy

destinationCRM.com, 05.10.2009: 8 Reasons to Revisit Your ECM Strategy
by Lauren McKay: "AIIM ECM Seminar: 'We are at a tipping point,' said industry president, telling attendees that the time is now to establish an Enterprise Content Management plan-of-action."

Tags: ecm, enterprise2.0, analysis, strategy

The FASTForward Blog, 16.09.2009: E2.0: Unleashing the Potential: Enterprise 2.0

The FASTForward Blog, 16.09.2009: E2.0: Unleashing the Potential: Enterprise 2.0
by Paula Thornton: "How is 2.0 thinking different? It relies on a shift away from many commonly held beliefs. It is not an abandonment of such beliefs, but requires that they be suspended to move to a more flexible, adaptive middle."

Tags: enterprise2.0, strategy, adoption, bestpractice, analysis

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 29..01.2009: Using Web 2.0 to reinvent your business for the economic downturn

ZDNet.com Enterprise Web 2.0, 29..01.2009: Using Web 2.0 to reinvent your business for the economic downturn
by Dion Hinchcliffe: "We are very fortunate that, given the generational challenges we face today, we have tools that those that came before us could not possibly imagine"

Tags: enterprise2.0, web2.0, business, strategy, marketing, crowdsourcing, analysis

Strategic heading, 20.01.2009: Web 2.0 Represents A Fundamental Rethinking Of Business, And The Theory Of The Firm

Strategic heading, 20.01.2009: Web 2.0 Represents A Fundamental Rethinking Of Business, And The Theory Of The Firm
by G. Oliver Young: "So what do I see when I look at Web 2.0, social media, social software, and whatever else you want to call this thing? I see a fundamental rethinking of the definition and function of the firm; the single biggest change since the industrial revolution."

Tags: web2.0, collaboration, strategy, organization, socialmedia, enterprise2.0

HBS Faculty Blogs, 01.12.2008: The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan

HBS Faculty Blogs, 01.12.2008: The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Planby Andrew McAfee: "The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan
Recent events in the news have inspired a thought experiment: I asked myself what I would do if I were put in charge of IT as part of the turnaround effort at a big US automaker."

Tags: strategy, management, enterprise2.0, enterprise, it, economy, crisis

Infoworld Enterprise Desktop, 01.05.2008: Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps? | May 1, 2008 11:23 AM | Randall Kennedy

Infoworld Enterprise Desktop, 01.05.2008: Streaming Office: Death knell for Google Apps? | May 1, 2008 11:23 AM | Randall Kennedy
by Randall C. Kennedy: "Microsoft's recently (at the time) acquired SoftGrid technology. I saw the acquisition as a clear sign that Microsoft was gearing up to deliver a subscriptions-based, hosted licensing model for Microsoft Office."

Tags: microsoft, google, strategy, office, productivity, virtualization

Forbes.com, 01.05.2008: The iPhone: Apple's Magic Wand

Forbes.com, 01.05.2008: The iPhone: Apple's Magic Wand
by Brian Caulfield: "Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) is knitting together a broad coalition of companies around a vision of computing that goes far beyond today's hot-selling iPhone and toward a future that combines wireless broadband and touch-sensitive interfaces with built-in motion sensors."

Tags: apple, iphone, strategy, future, wireless, ui

Micro Persuasion, 12.02.2008: The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites

Micro Persuasion, 12.02.2008: The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites
by Steve Rubel: "The leading players on the web all see the train coming. They are wisely creating APIs and turning themselves into plug-and-play services, not just big destinations."

Tags: analysis, api, strategy, business, webservices, web3.0

HBS Faculty Blogs, 22.02.2008: What's Most Important for Success with Enterprise 2.0?

HBS Faculty Blogs, 22.02.2008: What's Most Important for Success with Enterprise 2.0?
by Andrew McAfee: "I spoke earlier this week at the FASTForward conference in Orlando, and used the opportunity to toss out some conjectures about the factors that differentiate successful Enterprise 2.0 deployments from unsuccessful ones."

Tags: enterprise2.0, adoption, strategy, management

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
by Ashling O’Connor: "The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant’s core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop busines with Live Documents."

Tags: office, software, strategy, webapp, webservice