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Becoming An Open Enterprise: Five Lessons from Booz Allen Hamilton
The portal that garnered them the accolade, hello.bah.com, has shown impressive adoption within Booz Allen, especially for a firm that's 90 years old. Since being rolled out in August 2008, it's been taken up for daily use by 40% of the 21,000-strong workforce, according to Walton Smith, who's worked as an evangelist for it.
Should everyone work with innovation? | Stefan Lindegaard / INTRAP
On the other hand, every employee should be given the opportuntity to work with innovation even at a certain radical level through a variety of initiatives setup by your innovation leaders. This could be idea generating campaigns, internal business plan competitions and innovation camps.
The enterprise implications of Google Wave | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Wave’s relevance to the enterprise might seem premature with so many of the early and current Web 2.0 applications (blogs, wikis, social networks, Twitter-style social messaging, mashups, etc.) still — often arduously — making their way into the workplace years after their inception. Though we seem to finally be hitting a tipping point with 2.0 tools at work, Wave itself seems credible enough to get on our watchlists, at least to understand the implications.
Built to Thrive - reframing the new business landscape » Making the case for Social Based Innovation
Crowdsourcing, Co-production, crowd spirit, etc are concepts that try to capture the emerging world of social mobilization. Leveraging communities as crowds that influence your innovation mandate has become a new topic of discussion.
joshu (05/09): When I think about social softwa... — BackType
When I think about social software (which is the context in which "virality" lives, anyway) I think you have to build for three things - in this order:
1. Utility - it must be high utility, even if nobody else is in the system.
2. Network Effect - As people are drawn into the system, it needs to scale in value more than linearly
3. Residual value - Value taken out of the system, sometimes as revenue. Typically ads.
Enterprise 2.0 as a part of the Global Enterprise | Bertrand DUPERRIN's Notepad
Many questioning about enterprise 2.0 these last weeks. How to make it work, how help companies to understand it, how to calculate the ROI ? So many questions that, at the end, can be summed up in only one : undestranding how these new logics can integrate into the existing and add to it. Without that, it’s obvious that either companies don’t dare either they will dare with overcautiousness and won’tbe able to get the most from their initiative, either will dare in a bad way and things will be counter-productives.
Determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Despite recent statistics showing that Enterprise 2.0 tools have spread to about a third of businesses globally, there remain ongoing questions being asked in the enterprise software community about the real returns that they provide to businesses that deploy them.
Gartner Hype Cycle 2008 on Flickr
Egham, UK, August 11, 2008 - Gartner, Inc. has identified 27 emerging technologies and predicts that eight of these will have a transformational business impact and should be strongly considered for adoption by technology planners in the next 10 years, according to the report "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008". Although Web 2.0 is now entering the Trough of Disillusionment, it will emerge within two years to have transformational impact, as companies steadily gain more experience and success with both the technologies and the cultural implications," said Jackie Fenn, vice president and Gartner Fellow.
Cloud computing — As companies seek to consume their IT services in the most cost-effective way, interest is growing in drawing a broad range of services (for example, computational power, storage and business applications) from the "cloud," rather than from on-premises equipment. Many types of technology providers are aligning themselves with this trend, with the result that confusion and hype will continue for at least another year before distinct submarkets and market leaders emerge.
Social computing platforms — Following the phenomenal success of consumer-oriented social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, companies are examining the role that these sites, or their enterprise-grade equivalents, will play in future collaboration environments. The scope is also expanding to incorporate the notion of social "platforms," or environments for a broad range of developers to build on the basic application.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=739613
From Idea To Innovation
In a three-week experiment, GE Research turned its 85 employees into day traders, letting them watch market movements on their screens to decide whether to buy or sell any of 62 stocks. Only the stocks were product ideas in which the company had the option to develop. At stake was $50,000 in research funding that GE would allocate to the highest-valued project.
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
LinkedIn: Discussion: Enterprise 2.0 Group
One point that comes out of the interview is that even Andrew McAfee admits that Enterprise 2.0 adoption has not progressed as quickly as he had thought it would. There's still movement toward it and I still believe it will be universally present in business in the future. But it's an interesting question: What factors are keeping Enterprise 2.0 from being more widely adopted?
Can Enterprise 2.0 help companies innovate? « Breakfast 2.0
In this study, the virtual distance is showed as the sum of the physical distance, the operational distance and the affinity distance. The higher virtual distance is between 2 people the less they will communicate (and therefore innovate).
Mercury’s Blog » Blog Archive » A review of idea and innovation software
The most popular post I’ve written to date is a review of prediction market software. Today’s post is going to be the same, but for idea/innovation software (henceforth referred to as innovation software).
Trying to even find and identify all the different types of innovation software is difficult because of the different ways people and companies think about innovation.
Clearstep Business Community : How to Add Wiki Wins
A wiki win is any positive outcome related to the wiki. All of our wiki wins aggregated across the company will constitute a comprehensive answer to the simple question, "What are the benefits of using a wiki in our company?"
Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Can Enterprise Social Networking Pay Off?
Connectbeam, Spigit are included in this discussion.
Sharepoint and Enterprise 2.0: The good, the bad, and the ugly | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
These concerns about SharePoint’s ability to be an effective Enterprise 2.0 platform is one I hear echoed a lot with practitioners I talk to. In spite of this, I correspondingly hear that SharePoint is in fact what most organizations are planning on using when it comes to 2.0-style collaboration and knowledge management. Why the apparent disconnect between the perceived suitability (which we’ll dissect in a moment) and actual use? Part of it is SharePoint’s stunning penetration in the software business.
Social Software Options Matrix on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This is an updated matrix of social tool components and how they map to various use types in social computing. I use this in my workshops on understanding social software for use inside organizations. Separating use into collective, community (group), and collaboration has a large impact as the use and type of components needed to accomplish those different use tasks. Solid stars mean the tool does a good job at that use. Hollow stars mea the tool may have some value, but is not strongest. Empty cells indicate that tool is not often thought of as adding value to that use type. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch
Data Mining Moves to Human Resources - BusinessWeek
While tracking the value of a knowledge worker's ideas is in its infancy, social networks provide valuable laboratories. A few giants, such as IBM, build their own social nets. Others implement offerings from software makers such as SAS. These are designed to link workers and to study their ideas and circles of influence.
The challenge, then, is to figure out which workers come up with winning ideas. Cataphora starts by studying communications through a company. Certain employees produce chunks of data—whether words or software code—that later pop up in other messages. The people copied most often, Cataphora concludes, are thought leaders. They get big dark blue circles. Other people spot the valuable content and pass it on. Those are networked curators. Their circles are bright red.
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