Comments on: Enterprise 2.0 – Enabling change or part of the problem?

By: links for 2008-11-16 at Alan Vonlanthen’s blog

links for 2008-11-16 at Alan Vonlanthen’s blog — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:03:58 +0000

[...] acidlabs » Enterprise 2.0 – Enabling change or part of the problem? "Adopting Enterprise 2.0 tools and techniques will bring about some major changes – culturally, organisationally and technically – in your business. But appropriately well thought out strategy and equally careful implementation will make it very, very doable. (…)" Brilliant presentation by Stephen Collins. Via Headshift. (tags: enterprise2.0) [...]

By: Library clips

Library clips — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:52:39 +0000

Are you really doing Enterprise 2.0?…

The other day I posted on Knowledge flow networks and Post-KM : enterprise 2.0, facilitation and complexity, these along with an older post include how I think KM and enterprise 2.0 can come together.
In this post I pointed to a post by Tom Davenport…

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Bookmarks about Meaning — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:00:12 +0000

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By: Paula Thornton

Paula Thornton — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:57:45 +0000

Ge-Rate Stuff! Oddly, I was losing my own Enterprise 2.0 grounding as I was working on an Enterprise/Innovation/Social problem. This was the reality check I needed. Thanks.

By: Daria

Daria — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:20:54 +0000

Thanks for the great post and cool pictures
You ask: why isn’t every organization employing the new tools? The answer is simple, because change takes time, especially a cultural one. Many people still doubt that Web 2.0 is different from Web 1.0 For others it can be difficult to differentiate Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0.
Andrew McAfee pointed out two major principles of Enterprise 2.0 – collective intelligence and emergent structures. Collective intelligence is easy to grasp. But the notion of emergence is harder to explain, don’t you think so? Though some people have tried to do it. Here’s a post on emergent structures
by Andrew Filev, for example. It would be great to see a post on the importance of emergence and its effects on organizations from you. Thanks once again.

By: Gordon Whitehead

Gordon Whitehead — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:27:57 +0000

Stephen, another great post and in my opinion, you’ve hit the nail on the head. Keep the good work-up.

By: Jonathan Barel

Jonathan Barel — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:48:32 +0000

You make a lot of very good points here. There’s no doubt that we’re on a very fast track with short development cycles, and an explosion of innovation and imagination.

The problem is the heterogeneous nature of the workforce. Throwing everyone into Enterprise 2.0 is a call to revolution, but won’t bring progress.

The human-centric aspects of the process have to be based on how people acquire and learn skills and manage their productivity. Forcing everyone onto twitter and wikis won’t automatically bring a huge organization like a bank with 200 branches into the 22nd century. Web 2.0 tools aren’t appropriate for all cases, and in fact are only relevant to a minority of situations and the workforce.

People need to work in familiar environments, without gratuitous spikes in the learning curve.

Tools like our own ActionBase, integrate into a Microsoft Office and correct the problems of email overload and information overload, without careening off at a tangent.

Some natural selection has to occur in Web 2.0 before we can determine which tools really bring us long-term results.