We are proud to announce that we have finally launched the Headshift Casefiles wiki, which is a repository of case studies about the use of enterprise social tools (not just ours, although there are lots of them in there) and also the key use cases we are seeing within organisations that are driving deployment.
I am here at the closing sessions of the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, and probably the three key messages we have heard are:
- We need more cases studies
- We need to understand the use cases
- We need to talk more about barriers to adoption and how to overcome them
So, hopefully this is a small contribution to that process, and I think we will extend casefiles to include barriers to adoption, so if you want to contribute please let me know. The wiki is not fully opened up to anonymous editing yet, but we will enable this once we see the server can cope with it ;-)
Oh yes, and we moved offices this week. And we launched a brand new Web site that reflects better what we do. And we hired some more smart people, but more on that later...
Any comments on casefiles, the site, the office, our espresso machine or nabaztag bunny collections are most welcome as always.
Hi Lee,
not sure if this will be of interest to you but I produced a case study for the work I've been doing for local government in developing a web 2.0 platform for supporting communities of practice. The platform was launched in September 2006 and is now (I think) the largest 'enterprise' CoP platform in use in the UK, with 12,000 registered users and 350 active communities of practice - and still growing. The paper is available on my website (www.semantix.co.uk) under 'white papers'.
I am in the process of collecting individual case studies from a selection of the local government CoPs, and may be able to make these available to you (subject to agreement from the relevant CoP).
As an aside, I met Penny Edwards (Headshift) at the Web 2.0 strategies event today and she was interested in the work I'm doing with Warwick Business School on measuring the value (e.g. ROI)of CoPs. I promised to email her with some more details. She mentioned you were attending an event with WBS. If so, you might want to make contact with Prof Harry Scarborough who is leading this work.
Steve