Tag Archives: enterprise 2.0

22/05/2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Toyota Chatter–to Salesforce it Matters

By Ben Kepes

News off the wire today that Salesforce.com and Toyota have formed a “strategic alliance” that will see Toyota create a private social network for car owners built on top of Chatter. First some detail of the deal, according to the release; Toyota Friend will be a private social network that

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05/01/2011 Posted in Aaron Roe Fulkerson, enterprise processes, enterprise tools, People and Processes, social business, Solutions, Strategies Leave a comment

Enterprise 2.0–It’s Not Just an Upsized Consumer Offering

By Ben Kepes
Ever since the term Enterprise 2.0 was coined, commentators have struggled to not only define it, but to also find good examples of its success. One of the reasons for the disconnect between the theory and the practice is a focus by those who strive for an easily understood definition, on explaining
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17/12/2010 Posted in Dan Pink, MIT, Motivation, People and Processes 2 Comments

On Motivation, and What Really Drives Us

By Ben Kepes
We’ve been told for years that incentivizing employees is the secret to better performance. A great talk given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) questions the assumption that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want and, the
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28/11/2010 Posted in Challenges, enterprise challenges, future of enterprise, modern work life, People and Processes, work life balance Leave a comment

The Unintended Consequences of the Modern World…

By Ben Kepes
I’ve often written about my vision of the enterprise of the future – one that is more akin to something from nature than from enterprises today. The organization of the future will be organic — it will readily change to the specific situation it finds itself in at any one time.  Collaborativ
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11/11/2010 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Walking the Walk with Enterprise Collaboration?AKQA goes 21st Century

By Ben Kepes

Image via Wikipedia We often hear from hand-waving enterprise 2.0 advocates who tell about adoption of E20 tools within their workplace. Often however this adoption is a thin veneer that doesn?t extend significantly beyond the usual early adopter suspects. Independent digital agency AKQA is bucking this trend. It?s an interesting

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09/11/2010 Posted in Defrag 2010, Esther Dyson, Events, JP Rangaswami, Paul Kedrosky, Stowe Boyd Leave a comment

Distracting the Enterprise at Defrag

By Ben Kepes
Anyone who has been around computing for more than a decade will fondly remember back when the more anally retentive among us used to religiously defrag our hard drives. Defragging was a process that reduced fragmentation, freed up space, and generally made our hard drives more efficient. It was som
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09/11/2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

PBworks Launches Its Agency Edition

By Ben Kepes

PBWorks is today launching another custom edition of its enterprise collaboration software. The Agency Edition is a customization of the standard PBworks product, this time specifically tailored for advertising, PR, marketing and design agencies. PBworks’ Chris Yeh told me that the product was created because of the specific nature of

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08/11/2010 Posted in Business 3 Comments

SocialText on Barriers to Adoption, and Why Consultants Miss the Point

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time last week talking to Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText and very much a luminary in the Enterprise 2.0 space. The reason for the call was to get an advance briefing about SocialText’s latest product release, a release that sees them further their aim to be a

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21/10/2010 Posted in Collaboration, collaboration officer, organizational hierarchy, People and Processes, Strategies Leave a comment

Who is Responsible for Collaboration?

By Ben Kepes
I spend a lot of time talking to organizations about collaboration and engagement. I always find it a little strange that I’m effectively giving people guidance in communication, something that everyone does constantly in their personal lives. For whatever reason, people tend to  consider commun
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08/10/2010 Posted in Back2Basics, Challenges, collaboration 2.0, enterprise challenge, enterprise software, productivity tools, Strategies, technology Leave a comment

Enterprise Software Doesn’t Have to Suck

By Ben Kepes
This blog is aimed at people, working inside the enterprise space, some of whom spend their days wrestling with unfriendly and difficult-to-use software. Software that is inflexible, semi unfit-for-purpose, and forces people to work in a particular way. Enterprise software doesn’t need to be this
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The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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