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

January 5, 2011

Aaron Roe Fulkerson, enterprise processes, enterprise tools, People and Processes, social business, Solutions, Strategies

adoption, enterprise 2.0

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 Enterprise 2.0 as “Facebook for the Enterprise”.

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On Motivation, and What Really Drives Us

December 17, 2010

Dan Pink, MIT, Motivation, People and Processes

adoption, enterprise 2.0, productivity

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 corollary, that if you punish something, you get less of the behavior.

Dan Pink refers to a study at MIT which was funded by the Federal Reserve. In this study, a whole group of students were given a set of challenges – physical, cognitive, and spatial. Performance was incentivized via monetary reward in an approach typical of most workplaces. So what happened?

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The Unintended Consequences of the Modern World…

November 28, 2010

Challenges, enterprise challenges, future of enterprise, modern work life, People and Processes, work life balance

enterprise 2.0

The organization of the future will be organic — it will readily change to the specific situation it finds itself in at any one time. Collaborative teams will form on a project-specific basis, coming together to leverage symbiotic skills and move on when the project is complete. Physical workplaces will also look different – with workers coming and going in a flexible manner, and skilled individuals working across multiple organizations and multiple projects.

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Who is Responsible for Collaboration?

October 21, 2010

Collaboration, collaboration officer, organizational hierarchy, People and Processes, Strategies

enterprise 2.0

Recently on HBR an interesting post suggested that companies need to appoint someone to ensure that collaboration occurs, a Chief Collaboration Officer if you will.
Chief Collaboration Officer is the person (or more likely group of people) who is tasked with“crafting a holistic solution to collaboration; one that involves strategy, HR, product development, sales solutions, marketing, and IT”. So, whose job is it?

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

On Motivation, and What Really Drives Us

The Unintended Consequences of the Modern World…

Who is Responsible for Collaboration?