Comments on: Will Enterprise 2.0 change corporate culture or reinvent the silos?

By: strategic change management

strategic change management — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:24:19 +0000

strategic change management…

Great post. My approach to strategic change management says the quality of the first five percent determines what happens in the rest of the process. This same principle applies to many situations….

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:37:06 +0000

I also agree that consumer and business oriented social networking are profoundly different. Thanks for linking to these experts in their post conference reports. Here is another recap http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/future-of-work/enterprise-20-conference-aftermath-32715 that also includes post conference reports by McAfee and Hinchcliffe and more.

By: Poul J. Hebsgaard

Poul J. Hebsgaard — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:41:27 +0000

Tom, I think we have a “violent agreement” here.
I was referring to the Enterprise 2.0 conference here in Boston last week and just tried to make the point that the status of social media today as reflected by the conference has a long way to go before it is enterprise ready. AND yes it is about people and how to assist people getting their work done. FRCP, eDiscovery and Sarbanes-Oxley is not about IT either but are elements of the considerations going into any solution helping people collaborate. Corporate SILOs is not necessarily a bad thing either – I will be blogging about that soon.

By: Tom G

Tom G — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:44:58 +0000

Good points, but I was horrified at one assertion here: “before Enterprise 2.0 ‘grows up’ to be ‘WEB 2.0 for the enterprise’ (or ‘Facebook and Twitter inside the firewall’)

Enterprise 2.0 is not about IT – repeat again, it’s NOT about IT. Or rather, yes, IT has a useful part to play, but the moment we place it as the centre of concern is the moment we lose the plot completely.

Enterprise 2.0 is essentially about _people_, and people collaborating via _any_ appropriate means, whether IT-based or not. The moment we interpose any assumptions about interaction-mechanisms, it becomes – as you in fact quote in the paragraph above – “using Social Media as a cure chasing a disease”, otherwise known as ‘cart before the horse’. IT-centric ’solutions’ do _not_ work: they never have. (BPR is one infamous example; likewise most so-called ERP software.) So get back to _people_; keep the Enterprise 2.0 focus on people; and _never_ let yourself get distracted by the technology that may be used to support those people.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:58:35 +0000

Interesting thoughts. (I have the world's worst e-mail habits, so I was particularly interested in those numbers. I have GOT to do something...) Jack Bergstrand is an expert in knowledge work productivity management and has written a book, "Reinvent Your Enterprise" showing companies HOW to go about systematically improving productivity. He founded Brand Velocity Inc. and developed the Strategic Profiling enterprise project acceleration instrument. And he's led several different corporate functions, including the global business systems of Coca-Cola. He knows how to help knowledge workers get the job done. And that's what's needed these days.