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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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Tools for the real world

November 7, 2010

Back2Basics, change management, Collaboration, Strategies, technology

Remember once upon a time when software, and technology in general, was held up as the panacea for all ills? It would bring us the paperless office, vastly reduced working hours, a longer life expectancy, and a better standard of living. I don’t think we’ve gotten here yet – stress related diseases run rife, workers toil […]

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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 Software Doesn’t Have to Suck

October 8, 2010

Back2Basics, Challenges, collaboration 2.0, enterprise challenge, enterprise software, productivity tools, Strategies, technology

enterprise 2.0

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 way. With this blog, I’m aiming to distract traditional enterprise IT away […]

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Facebook Fridays? Let’s Bury That One Forever

September 24, 2010

Challenges, social enterprise, social media governance, social web, Solutions, Strategies

adoption, enterprise 2.0

A few years ago, back when we were young and naive and thought that social media was some passing fad that the young-uns would soon forget about, Serena Software created some waves by creating “Facebook Fridays”. Facebook Fridays was a quaint and old-world approach towards meeting employees’ desire to participate in social media activities by using […]

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Avoiding Distractions

September 14, 2010

distraction aids, distraction blockers, distractions, knowledge workers, productivity tip, Strategies

productivity

The first word in the blog title – Distracted – is really relevant to this post. As knowledge workers, we face distractions more and more often in our work day that send our productivity plummeting and do little more than annoy us. So how …

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Blog Archives

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

Tools for the real world

Who is Responsible for Collaboration?

Enterprise Software Doesn’t Have to Suck

Facebook Fridays? Let’s Bury That One Forever

Avoiding Distractions