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It takes a lot of faith in an idea to start a company around it.

But for companies to succeed in the long run, their founders also need to be ready for those ideas to fail. They need to be ready to learn from those failures and adapt.

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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.

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Those who have deployed their 2007 just like they did their 2001 and their 2003 environment simply by upgrading it, or simply didn’t spend any time figuring out how to take advantage of their features may feel like their environment is FLAT or they are feeling the chaos of a flat environment.

Here’s my description of what’s gone wrong…

1. You can’t find anything
2. You can’t tell who owns anything
3. You can’t tell what’s new, what’s old or what has changed
4. It’s all disconnected

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While Microsoft’s Windows sales fell for the first time in history this year, its SharePoint sales have gone up. Microsoft declines to break out the exact sales figures for the software but said that SharePoint broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year and continued to rise past that total this year, making it the hottest selling server-side product ever for the company.

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The problems with Google’s start-up purchases strikes at the core of Google’s innovation shortcomings. First, many of the best new web ideas in the last few years have come from start-ups – not from Google, so it has to buy up little companies to keep the best new ideas coming in. This is to be expected. No one company can come up with all the new ideas. But it does illustrate that Google does depend, and in fact must compete with, start-ups for innovation.

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In my previous post I mentioned the various problems with relying on incubation teams to bring innovation into a product or organization. The obvious follow up question is that if carving off some subset of your team to work on the "next big thing" while the rest of your employees work on the boring bread and butter product(s) that pay the bills doesn't work, how do you revitalize an organizations products and make them innovative?

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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.

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I've recently been nagged by a somewhat peculiar thought: In a way, the dogged pursuit of excellence is the path to anything but. As you head down the road to mastery, you run a real risk that in fact you have nothing to distinguish yourself other than the depth of your expertise. That may sound like a good thing, but that expertise may not be either sufficient or satisfying.

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Talks about moderately successful tech startups. Cash flow positive, but not yet household names.

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