Saturday, November 07, 2009

SDL Tridion Blog, 30.10.2009: Top 3 Business Drivers Behind Web Content Management (WCM)

SDL Tridion Blog, 30.10.2009: Top 3 Business Drivers Behind Web Content Management (WCM)by Brad Davis: "In March of 2009 the Aberdeen Group released a report titled 'Maximize Business Results Online: How Web Content Management Technology is Transforming Digital Marketing'. The report was based upon an in-depth survey of B2B and B2C businesses."

Friday, November 06, 2009

Monday, November 02, 2009

Gartner Research, 15.10.2009: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management

Gartner Research, 15.10.2009: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management
by Toby Bell et.al.: "Enterprises consider ECM as both a strategy to deal with all types of content and a set of software products with capabilities for managing the entire content life cycle. They want ECM solutions to help them run, grow and transform their businesses."

Friday, October 30, 2009

McKinsey: What Matters, 27.10.2009: Using technology to improve workforce collaborationMcKinsey: What Matters, 27.10.2009: Using technology to improve

McKinsey: What Matters, 27.10.2009: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration
by James Manyika, Kara Sprague and Lareina Yee: "Knowledge workers fuel innovation and growth, yet the nature of knowledge work remains poorly understood—as do the ways to improve its effectiveness. The heart of what knowledge workers do on the job is collaborate, which in the broadest terms means they interact to solve problems, serve customers, engage with partners, and nurture new ideas. Technology and workflow processes support knowledge worker success and are increasingly sources of comparative differentiation. Those able to use new technologies to reshape how they work are finding significant productivity gains. This article shares our research on how technology can improve the quality and output of knowledge workers."

Friday, October 23, 2009

Intranet Blog, 21.10.2009: SharePoint for ECM: 5 big enhancements

Intranet Blog, 21.10.2009: SharePoint for ECM: 5 big enhancements
by Toby Ward: "Here are five of the biggest impact, promised improvements to enterprise content management (ECM) that I’ve seen with my own two eyes, and even used"

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, 19.10.2009: SharePoint 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog, 19.10.2009: SharePoint 2010
by sptblog: "This morning, Steve Ballmer and I are kicking off the SharePoint Conference so it is time to talk about SharePoint 2010! It is incredibly fun and rewarding to unveil this release driven input from you and innovative ideas from the team. As Steve announced, we will release the Beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in November"

Friday, October 16, 2009

InfoWorld, 26.08.2009: Enterprise social software spurs connections

InfoWorld, 26.08.2009: Enterprise social software spurs connections
by Mike Heck: "The InfoWorld Test Center reveals the strengths and weaknesses of blogging, wiki, and community solutions from CubeTree, Jive, Socialtext, and Telligent"

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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."

Sunday, October 11, 2009

KnowledgeBoard, 07.10.2009: 10 common problems with ECM - and how to avoid them

KnowledgeBoard, 07.10.2009: 10 common problems with ECM - and how to avoid them
by Ben Richmond: "ECM has the power to transform employee productivity, drive down costs and reduce the carbon footprint for any organisation. But many organisations have yet to achieve maximum value from the investment. From clearly defining corporate expectations up front, to ensuring user buy-in, only the right approach can ensure that organisations achieve their ECM objectives, insists Ben Richmond."

Thursday, October 08, 2009

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."

Monday, September 28, 2009

Digital Landfill, 26.09.2009: 8 Things you need to know about developing an ECM Information Architecture

Digital Landfill, 26.09.2009: 8 Things you need to know about developing an ECM Information Architecture
by Michael Elkins: "Information is our most important corporate asset, but the value of that information can only be realized if users can quickly find and use it. All too often, companies are handcuffed by numerous departmental or standalone content management systems, each with unique or incomplete information architectures. Getting to enterprise information architecture requires careful consideration during the design process including"

Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Obvious, 21.09.2009: Social Business

The Obvious, 21.09.2009: Social Business
by Euan Semple: Below is the text (warning this is the biggest blog post I have ever done) of an article I wrote recently which I am reproducing here as it seems pertinent to the promotion of the idea of social business."

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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."

Saturday, September 12, 2009

KMWorld, 10.09.2009: Writing the book on Enterprise 2.0

KMWorld, 10.09.2009: Writing the book on Enterprise 2.0
by Hugh McKellar: "Andrew McAfee, who first coined the term 'Enterprise 2.0' in 2006, has written the definitive book about it. Enterprise 2.0, New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges will be published in December by Harvard Business School Press. He is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. McAfee will deliver the opening keynote address Nov. 17 at the KMWorld 2009 Conference and Exposition in San Jose, and recently spoke with KMWorld Editor in Chief Hugh McKellar."

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

SocialText Blog, 27.08.2009: Enterprise 2.0: Skip the Pilot

SocialText: "There's an orthodoxy in Enterprise 2.0 circles about how you're supposed to run an implementation. The orthodoxy goes something like this: Start with small-scale pilots, define your business objectives, watch the pilots closely, evaluate their success, make a go/no-go decision. (A good recent articulation of this view is in Chris McGrath's post on 8 Tips for a Successful Social Intranet Pilot.)"

Thursday, September 03, 2009

McKinsey Quarterly, 01.09.2009: How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0

McKinsey Quarterly, 01.09.2009: How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0
by Business Technology Office: "The heaviest users of Web 2.0 applications are also enjoying benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and more effective marketing. These benefits often have a measurable effect on the business."

Thursday, August 27, 2009

ReadWriteEnterprise, 25.08.2009: Kiiro: SharePoint-based Collaboration That Just Works

ReadWriteEnterprise, 25.08.2009: Kiiro: SharePoint-based Collaboration That Just Works
by Steven Walling: "But Kiiro is a project management tool that uses a SharePoint backend yet looks like nothing like a Microsoft product. It is one of the best-looking and easiest-to-use SharePoint tools we've seen to date."

Monday, August 24, 2009

Wired, 18.08.2008: Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road

Wired, 18.08.2008: Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road
by Daniel Roth: "in May 2007, he launched Project Better Place, the world's first global electric-car grid operator (he later dropped 'Project'). He had no cars, no test site, and no electrical engineering or auto experience. It wasn't even clear that consumers wanted change. They were paying $3 a gallon, painful but bearable. On a mission to end oil and about his plans for an ubiquitous support infrastructure for electric cars."

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Read Write Web, 11.08.2009: Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?

Read Write Web, 11.08.2009: Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking?
by Marshall Kirkpatrick: "The prospect of a distributed, interoperable, self-hosted network of publishing, reading and discussion tools is nothing new - but the idea is gaining a lot more support as more people react to recent news like FriendFeed's sale to Facebook, Tr.im's up and down and Twitter's denial of service attacks. The tide may not be turning, but there's sure to be some new waves of innovation that come out of this period of frustration."