The Enterprise 2.0 Oscars
Jevon MacDonald asks who the Enterprise 2.0 leaders are on the FASTForward blog:
Who are the up and coming stars and who are the blowhards? Who are the hidden gems and who do you think has it all wrong? Who is out there doing the hard work and not getting any credit?
I’ve already made one rather flippant comment, but on a more serious note here’s a list of all those I came across during the course of researching and writing my book who I consider to be the leaders, and why.
The Enterprise 2.0 Oscar Nominations (without the writers’ strike) are…
The Clairvoyance Award (for seeing what’s next)
- Thomas Friedman for The World is Flat
- Levine, Locke, Searls & Weinberger for The Cluetrain Manifesto
- Hugh MacLeod for The Porous Membrane
The Deja Vu Award (for seeing it all years ago)
- Vannevar Bush for Mechanisation and the Record (1939) and As We May Think (1945)
- K. Eric Drexler for first using the term ’social software’ (1991)
- Douglas Engelbart for Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962)
- Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz for coining the term ‘groupware’ (1978)
- J.C.R. Licklider for Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960) and The Computer as a Communication Device (PDF) (1968)
The Plain English Award (for explaining Enterprise 2.0)
- Dion Hinchcliffe for The State of Enterprise 2.0 and FLATNESSES
- Andrew McAfee for Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration (PDF) and SLATES
- M.R. Rangaswami for The Birth of Enterprise 2.0
The Innovators Award (for leading by example)
- René Bonvanie for using Facebook as Serena Software’s intranet
- Keely Flint for BUPA’s use of social bookmarking for knowledge management
- Ludovic Fourrage for Microsoft’s internal YouTube-esque service
- Rich Manalang for building Oracle’s IdeaFactory in 24 hours
- Euan Semple for the BBC’s talk.gateway
- Nathan Wallace for replacing Janssen-Cilag’s intranet with a wiki
The Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Award (for making business leaders consider Enterprise 2.0 seriously)
- Marthin de Beer, Cisco Systems
- Dennis Moore,
SAPex-SAP, now OQO - Thomas Vander Wal, InfoCloud Solutions
The Voice of Reason Award (for bringing everyone back down to earth)
- Tom Davenport for Why Facebook and MySpace Won’t Change the Workplace
- Paul Kedrosky for asking what social technology will actually replace in the workplace
The Direct to Consumer Award (for bypassing the IT department)
- Ross Mayfield for identifying the ‘enterprise target with consumer approach’
- Peter Sondergaard for highlighting the trend in consumerisation of IT
- Ben Worthen for exposing the ’shadow’ IT department
The Just Do It Award (for practical approaches to getting started)
- BEA Systems for Technology Adoption and Company Culture – Chicken or Egg
- Dion Hinchcliffe for his contribution in How CIOs Can Introduce Web 2.0 Technologies into the Enterprise
Ross MayfieldSuw Charman for An Adoption Strategy for Social Software in the Enterprise- Dave Pollard for A Methodology for Web 2.0 Collaboration Experiments (in Reluctant Organizations)
And the winners are…?
Niall, this is awesome. I nominate you for the award for “most thorough analysis of thought leadership in Enterprise 2.0.”