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Feb

2011

Process Integration : putting Social into the Business flow

"Anyway, this post aims to discuss the issue of Process Integration using Social software as this looks like a great opportunity for both parties. Solving the Business Process Management equation thanks to Social Software agillity on one hand and putting Enterprise 2.0 into the flow of business processes."

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I’ve attended BPM training in 2007 where the expert could not name a successful implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus (the backbone component of SOA). He conceded that the solution is not worth considering unless your target is above 500 users. Below that limit, you won’t get your money back.
Beyond Social BPM, with the likes of IBM acquiring Lombardi solution to offer such solution in the cloud (BlueWorks Live), we now see and a move towards Enterprise Social Messaging.
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- TIBCO the expert of Enterprise Application Integration has launched tibbr which allow to mix people, projects and systems activity streams on a micro-blogging platform.
- Both tools aims to answer critical questions : how can we leverage social software best practices to streamline business processes ? And how can we integrate these tools into the daily routine of knowledge workers in order to contribute and generate business value ?

Feb

2011

Social Networks: Cautious Engineers and Collaboration-Focused Suppliers

"Despite the possibilities for collaboration, a Design News survey reveals engineers are avoiding social networks due to concerns around security and irrelevant information overload."

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So why can't technology that's popular on a personal level find traction for professional use among product development specialists? Survey results revealed engineers' chief concern to be fear of exposing critical company intellectual property (IP), with 58.5 percent of respondents citing security as their primary hesitation. Loss of productivity was a worry for 40.1 percent of respondents, while 29.3 percent said company policy precluded them from frequenting social networking sites on the job.
Beyond any one primary concern, however, the majority of survey respondents said existing social networks just weren't helpful enough in terms of delivering access to relevant content or connecting them to knowledgeable domain experts in their particular field or area of engineering interest. Even joining engineering-specific groups on LinkedIn or Facebook resulted in a whole lot of noise and useless chatter, respondents reported, as opposed to serving up focused, practical solutions to real-world engineering problems. "
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- Czarapata says at this point, he has more luck with traditional engineering forums where people concentrate on solving a particular engineering problem, trade tips, and help troubleshoot engineering software or post specific results on what they're doing, including insight into what went right and what went wrong.
- While social network usage ranked highest for knowledge sharing, as a resource for tapping into customer requirements (62.7 percent) and as a vehicle for networking (63.3 percent), only slightly more than a third (34.3 percent) of survey respondents said they were interested in the technology as a platform for collaborative engineering
- While engineering experts admit most generic social networks are not really tuned for product development, they maintain that social technologies folded into next-generation design tools like CAD and PLM can foster a more streamlined and effective social product development experience by granting engineers access to information and resources that they require on a real-time basis.
- PTC, which coined the term "social product development" several years back, is just starting to put that concept to the test.
- PTC officials say. In addition, by putting the social networking capabilities in the context of the product development materials managed by Windchill, users are not bombarded by streams of irrelevant status updates, but rather kept in the loop on the specific resources, design changes and project milestones that are highly relevant to what they are working on at the time
- "The biggest use case is definitely for collaboration," he says. "When you think about the job engineers do, it's problem solving and iteration that you do as an individual every once and a while, but more frequently as a team. Engineers will benefit from social media almost more than anyone else in a company

Feb

2010

Positioning with other IT systems: the liquid nature of Enterprise 2.0

"Emergent Social Software Platforms (ESSP) are now at the doorstep of the enterprise. The question one may ask is : how does it fit alongside the already existing Enterprise IT systems."

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Jul

2009

Graphic of the week: McKinsey's model for decision making on prize-based (open) innovation

McKinsey & Company has recently published a report with the title "And the winner is..." reviewing the current academic and business literature on prize-based innovation. The report is also partly based on a number of case studies from companies and governmental organization practicing such strategies in different forms.

www.enovationmatters.com/...-mckinsey-company-has.html

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