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Individual measurements in a social world – adoption obstacle? « Connected
Aha. Being social requires a stiff price: spending our most precious commodity, Time. So really, we are asking people to spend precious time to do something for which they are not measured. Fix this, and you will have removed a major obstacle to the inside-the-firewall business adoption of social networking and productivity behavior. (Gia Lyons)
Understanding Enterprise 2.0 Tolerances & Scale | Collaboration 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Small business is in contrast often like a single campus community, hopefully rapidly growing and feeding off its surroundings. The commonality is broadband internet connectivity, which like the transport options connecting small campus to large city makes all sorts of interesting collaboration possible.
Enterprise 2.0 Framework
So starting from goals I’ve highlighted 4 activities: collaboration (coordinating and working together with a common set of results in mind and building on top of the partial outputs of others), connection (putting in place active or inactive relationships between individuals based on common interests, passions or issues), communication & sharing (to support informal, asynchronous, loosely coupled knowledge exchanges making experts and expertise bubbling up), collective intelligence (aggregating and filtering the wisdom of crowds on the border of our company to innovate and predict future trends). Activies are not mutually exclusive and many users are exposed to many of them at the same time.
Salesforce.com Unveils Salesforce Chatter - Enterprise Collaboration Meets
Salesforce Chatter - Real-Time Collaboration with Content, Apps and People
Social computing and social networks have provided consumers with a new way to gain insights into what's happening in the world, when things are taking place and the people they know. Yet enterprise collaboration is almost non-existent because content, apps and people are disconnected and not part of the same conversation. With Salesforce Chatter, companies will be smarter as content, apps and people join the real-time conversation through a secure, private social network within the enterprise.
Library clips :: The ubiquity of social tools in context of workflows :: September :: 2008
I think along with wikis and blogs as standalone tools, we are going to see our workflow tools incorporate wiki and blog features, but yet it won’t be a blog or a wiki. We will have “post it” buttons on forms that publish fragments from our workflow to other places, yet we don’t have a blog in our workflow, it’s just a form, kind of like an edge feed like publi.sh.
Lean Innovation and Idea Management: Idea Management: How ideas crash.
My personal recommendation, when engaging in the ideation process and the development of an idea, especially when using idea management software, is that a core requirement of collaborating require that for every flawed aspect of an idea that is pointed out, a positive one is too. The positive one can address a separate aspect of the idea, or perhaps propose a way of mitigating the identified flaw. This helps keep the balance equal or in favor of the positive aspects, but also opens the opportunity to constructively address the flaws.
VIVOweb: Scientists will find research partners more easily, thanks to $12.2 million NIH grant
orget serendipity. Research scientists, meet social networking.
The National Institutes of Health have awarded the University of Florida – with Cornell University Library and Indiana University as major partners – a two-year, $12.2 million grant to bolster a national, Facebook-like, professional social network that enables scientists to find new biomedical research and partnerships. The new network will be called VIVOweb.
Bruce Nussbaum on Design, Disruption, and Innovation « Dachis Group Collaboratory | Social Business Design
David: You’ve written on the topic of innovation for some time providing alternative perspectives on processes such as Six Sigma etc. Has your view on innovation itself changed or is it the same? How do you personally define innovation?
Bruce: Innovation, for me, is invention that generates value for people. Often that value is monetary and commercial and produces profits, jobs, taxes and economic growth. Increasingly innovation is happening in non-market civic arenas–health, education, transportation, warfare (yes warfare), where the increased value is not necessarily monetary alone but hugely beneficial to the people it effects. The fastest growing field in innovation and design consulting is health care. Yet, there is a lot of money to be saved and earned in that space, but the biggest beneficiaries are patients, doctors and nurses.
The new employee connection: Social networking behind the firewall
Such connections help his teammates relate to one another like human beings and not just as resources or assets. Just recently, Ackerbauer says, he ended up speaking at a technology leadership conference, thanks to a connection he made with another employee who wouldn't have otherwise known he had expertise in the subject area.
Despite its experimental status, Beehive's user population has grown to 38,000 in nine months, mainly through viral adoption. "People find it through word of mouth, when others blog about it or bookmark it," Schick says. Adoption is strongest in the areas of product management, HR, talent management and the global services consulting business.
Because Beehive is behind the firewall, Ackerbauer says, people feel free to discuss internal business topics. For instance, he has used Beehive to explain his views on the topic of breakthrough thinking. "I've had people come up to me and say, 'I didn't know you knew all that stuff. Can we talk more?'" Ackerbauer says. "The connections lead to collaboration, which leads to innovation, which leads to transformations in the industries IBM serves."
Sharepoint Social Features May Be Sufficient for the Enterprise User - ReadWriteEnterprise
Simple things do matter. People can now upload pictures from their computers to a Sharepoint site and then re-size them. Sharepoint 2010 includes an activity stream for each user. Team sites are now wiki-oriented. Users can use wiki editing commands.
Search has been beefed up for people to find experts faster. For instance, if you are looking for a person with product sales experience, your search results will show the person's profile, including notes, ratings and their activities.
Tagging is unified in Sharepoint. For example, in a profile you can see tags that are associated with the person who appears in your search results.
These are all fairly basic social features that are old-school to many people. But in many ways, these features are just right for the mass-market enterprise user. Plus, there are some capabilities to make the platform compelling, including the ability to make mashups.
What is Google Wave good for?: Insight - Software - ZDNet Australia
But, all like all good fairy tales, the great Google Wave hype rollercoaster has to come to an end.
I'm sorry to be a killjoy, but I've been puttering around in Google Wave for the best part of a week now, and I have no idea in hell what I'm supposed to be using it for. I've watched all the videos (yes, even the cool 3.5 per cent one), tried out Google Wave with people in the Australian tech early adopter community both within my company and outside, but got absolutely nowhere with this platform.
Social Networking is the Means to Achieve Workplace Collaboration - O'Reilly Radar
One big thing I've been thinking about lately is "leveraging social networks to accomplish important stuff" and no one can deny that personal relationships can influence collaboration. How well you know someone, how much you identify with them, how much you trust them, their level of reliability or transparency - all of these are values derived from social networking that then, when leveraged, can influence collaboration. Collaboration is not an end in itself, of course - it is a means to accomplish some end (finishing a draft report, etc.). So, social networking is a means to collaboration, which is a means to achieving some work or personal goal.
Social Collaboration vs Knowledge Networks - Contentation Re-considered
The recent E2.0 Addidas use case is also quite interesting as they try to integrate their SoCo initiatives into something much larger which integrate Knowledge and Content Management (p.17).
This is where traditional WCM/ECM and new Social Suite will usually collide and will need to find new common (and if possible fertile) grounds in order not to fight one against each other but to best leverage the unique selling propositions of each others.
Certainly something related to a shift towards Semantic Knowledge Networks for WCM/ECM vendors and towards improved idea generation (e.g: Spigit), more efficient videos conferences (e.g: Klewel) and similar for Social Software.
The Real Meaning Of Google Wave - Forbes.com
But the demo video for Google Wave doesn't capture the importance of the tool as a disruptive and innovative development platform. Tom Mornini, chief technology officer and founder of Engine Yard, a company that offers an integrated software stack for Ruby developers, discusses the real meaning of Google Wave.
Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: A First Look at SharePoint 2010
First, before we get to features, there's a new conceptual view. The old 2007 "SharePoint donut" got tons of usage since most everyone is at a loss to describe what SharePoint is without it. Sure, it's a "collaboration server", but what does it do? Well, let me whip out this diagram and walk through it …
Here's my best guess so far on how the old donut maps to the new one.
Smart Social Networking For Your Small Business - Forbes.com
Next to mobility and cloud computing, social networking was the talk of Interop this year--especially at a conference session devoted to social software tools and a portion of the Unconference, where real SMB users talked about how to make the most of it.
Survey: Innovation and Profitable Growth
A joint Accenture/Economist Intelligence Unit survey set out to examine innovation and growth strategies over the coming three years—factors Accenture believes to be vital in achieving high performance. The research showed that while most companies associate innovation with growth, consensus was that lack of internal collaboration is a significant impediment.
Enterprise Collaboration at Scale - Ideo on designing collaborative systems
Most organizations think about technology first:
* Blogs
* Wikis
* Crowdsourcing
* Social Networking
* Telepresence
* Real-Time Collaboration software
The issue is that ROI does not appear because of other factors:
* Rewards
* Culture
* Organization Design
* Knowledge Sharing
* Content
* Achieving Adoption
* Abilities
* Systems Design
Design Thinking: Starts and ends with individuals
* Culture
* Behaviors
* Motivations
* Social Interactions
Of shoes and money …. and information
With very few exceptions, I have found the following to be true of large organisations:
* We stress the importance of human resources, human talent, human capital
* We stress the importance of teamwork and collaboration
* We stress the importance of openness and transparency
* We stress the importance of trust
And then, mysteriously, we somehow manage to create an environment where we jealously guard information; where we seek to create and extend power as a result of this jealous guarding; where we then exploit this power in all kinds of ways, some less abhorrent than others (but all abhorrent, at least to me).
McGee’s Musings : Cisco as an emerging Enterprise 2.0 case example
The current issue of Fast Company has a cover article on Cisco and their ongoing efforts to reorganize into something that is an excellent case study of what Enterprise 2.0 may look like in an established organization. It shouldn’t be any surprise that the quintessential networking company is on the leading edge of network thinking applied to organizational design. At the same time, Cisco is a large, successful, hierarchical, engineering-centric organization that isn’t likely to be terribly interested in organizational fads
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