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."
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."
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"
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."
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"
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."
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."
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.)"
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."