Enterprise 2.0

My core thesis in Enterprise 2.0 is that social software will change the future of work.
So in an otherwise underwhelming update of McKinsey’s global survey on the state of web 2.0 in companies, I was therefore intrigued by the finding that companies satisfied with their use of web 2.0 “are not only using more technologies [...]

Last week I covered the third category in my approach to planning Enterprise 2.0. The fourth and final category is connection.
Day Four: Connection
With social software, interaction is distributed over time, between multiple individuals and even across different systems. The tools that make connections between and within people and content are therefore critical in bringing together [...]

Yesterday I covered the second element in the 4Cs approach to applying enterprise 2.0 to your business. Today I’ll focus on the third, collaboration.
Day Three: Collaboration
One of the biggest areas of contention is the difference between cooperation and collaboration. Put very simply, collaborative social software supports the engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to [...]

Yesterday I introduced the 4Cs model for applying enterprise 2.0 in any business and outlined the elements that make up the first C - communication.
Today it’s the turn of the second, cooperation (or co-operation, if you prefer).
Day Two: Cooperation
With cooperation I am interested in social software that supports informal working where there are no pre-defined [...]

Well, the book was officially published yesterday. So I’d thought I do something different this week.
Starting today I’m going to introduce the model for how to apply enterprise 2.0 concepts that forms the nucleus of the book. On Friday, I’ll sum up and leave you with some further thoughts.
Introducing the 4Cs
Andrew McAfee’s SLATES and Dion [...]

Nortel and IDC have just put out a new piece of research looking at the relative connectivity of 2,400 people in 17 countries. They asked questions about both device and application usage to determine four distinct cluster of ‘connectedness’:

Hyperconnected: “Those who have fully embraced the brave new world, with more devices per capita than the [...]

The team behind GroupSwim are asking if collaborative structured databases are an opportunity for business:
We believe this the principle of a collaborative data source is a very powerful extension to the corporate wiki and will enable very effective collaboration among organization and individuals. It harnesses not only the collective knowledge within an organization, but also enables the organization [...]

For those reporting on Forrester’s prediction that the Enterprise 2.0 market will be worth US$4.6 billion by 2013, please choose your words carefully.
On page 3, the Forrester report refers to the “enterprise Web 2.0″ market as encompassing “both externally facing marketing functions and internally facing productivity and collaboration functions.” And in Figure 5.1 they clearly [...]

Hot on the heels of Ross Dawson’s Enterprise 2.0 Executive Roundtable report comes “the first major market study of Enterprise 2.0″ from the AIIM Market Intelligence group.
Three key findings emerge, we are told:

A majority of organisations position Enterprise 2.0 as critical or important to business goals and objectives
Few organisations have a clear understanding of Enterprise [...]