smarter, simpler, social
Blog: Search Results
33 Results Found. You searched for: "enterprise"
Divide and conquer to solve the business-IT disconnect problem
"I'm fed up with our IT department. Why does it take 4 months to deliver a small project if I can have it right now and much cheaper as a hosted service?""Why are those IT guys spending three years on... read full post
Behavioural transition strategies for E2.0
Adoption was a big them at this year's E20 conference. My focus was on some of the little techniques that we can use to smooth the adoption path for second wave adopters. read full post
Going with the flow: whither enterprise RSS?
Reports of the death of RSS at the hands of Twitter are exaggerated, though they contain a grain of truth. Here's why I think we are yet to see its real value in the enterprise. read full post
What do you want to see at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this year?
We are very focused on micro-level behavioural transition strategies to support the adoption of enterprise social tools. Is that the sort of thing you might want to se at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this year? read full post
Wikipedia as an inspiration for internal use of wikis
Should organisations using or considering wikis take note as Wikipedia debates a change to their moderation policy? read full post
Getting started with enterprise social networking
Notes and slides from a talk I gave at Online Information 2008 in London about how companies are starting to adopt internal social networking as a serious business tool, and some tips on how to get started. read full post
It's like Twitter, but for...
Enterprise Twitter adoption seems to be increasing, but will the tools that work be external, internal or a combination of the two? read full post
Free the Battery Humans
Why it is vital that we re-balance the relationship between people and process in large organisations, and how this could potentially lead to better companies, happier people and more socialised corporations read full post
Is Enterprise 2.0 about selling software or solving problems?
The Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston was very interesting, and reflected a maturing market for enterprise social computing - but can it avoid the vendor dominance that helped kill off KM? read full post
Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstream Enterprise Social Computing
The adoption of social tools in the enterprise is accelerating, but if we are to avoid the pitfalls of previous periods of technology innovation, then we need to focus more on addressing concrete business use cases and meeting the needs of second wave adopters. This presentation briefly covers some of the opportunities and challenges we see in the field, and some of the IT culture myths that can sometimes get in the way. read full post
Amidst the Microhoo ballyhoo, an idea for improving enterprise tools
The heat and noise generated by MIcrosoft's hostile bid for Yahoo could power a city, but among the various reactions and strained metaphors are some important points for the future of the Web. Plus, I think there is a potentially innovative enterprise angle that has not been discussed so far. read full post
On being espresso, not cappuccino, in 2008
A belated welcome to 2008, which is looking like a very interesting year in both senses of the word. At Headshift, we intend to become more boring and more sexy at the same time - watch this space! read full post
Sharepoint, Confluence and Newsgator: towards the social stack
Microsoft has announced a partnership with two innovative Enterprise 2.0 products - Confluence and Newsgator (both are Headshift partners)- to extend its Sharepoint system in the direction of becoming a social computing platform for the enterprise. We believe this will be the nudge that many IT departments need to embrace a meaningful social tools strategy. read full post
CIOs and the future of IT management
How is the IT function changing and what is the future role of the CIO? read full post
Social tools for Internal Communications
Participants at a recent Melcrum European seminar on social tools for internal communications came up with some useful insights into the use cases for social software and the barriers and chellanges for deployment read full post
(Non) Adoption of social computing in organisations: busyness or laziness?
Too much focus on very simple ROI measures can be a problem for the adoption of social tools. Olivier argues that we must resist the temptation to turn evolving methodologies into recipes for "best practice" read full post
What other conferences can learn from Reboot
Maybe I am getting jaded, but I am more and more conscious of a gulf in quality between events like Reboot and LIFT on the European circuit and UK business-focused conferences. Herewith, some observations on what we could do better. read full post
Pew Research: What are we doing for the other 41% of people we want to reach?
The latest Pew report suggests 41% of people are not engaging with Web 2.0. Good thing? Bad thing? Not sure ... but we certainly need a better way of getting second wave adopters on the bus in enterprise 2.0 projects. read full post
Blogging 4 Business redux
Notes from the Headshift/SixApart session at the Blogging for Business conference in London on April 4, 2007 read full post
Bottom-up and inside out - the future of enterprise IT?
Software as a Service is a potentially transformational delivery model that could put functionality and control in the hands of lines of business rather than just IT, and it will play a key role in the future of what people are calling Enterprise 2.0 - but how and when will that happen? read full post
Unicom Social tools seminar
Another good event hosted by Dave Gurteen and an excellent presentation from IBM read full post
Some practical steps towards collective intelligence in the enterprise
Looking beyond the immediate challenge of the adoption of social tools in the enterprise, what can we hope to achieve when there is a healthy 'flow' of content, traffic and ideas flowing around internal networks? Companies with hundreds or thousands of people have the scale required to achieve some interesting network effects, and through intelligent use of social tools, basic forms of collective intelligence are remarkably achievable. read full post
What form will Enterprise 2.0 take?
Demand is growing for Social Software and Enterprise 2.0 tools, and the value proposition is clearly very strong compared to traditional enterprise systems. But how do you go about delivering this value in corporate networks that are more used to fixed systems than iterative, evolving social tools? What sort of new approaches should we be thinking about to make the most of the fluid nature of Enterprise 2.0 tools? read full post
Blogs and Social Media Forum
The Blogs and Social Media Forum taking place today in London looks like being one of the most interesting UK-based conferences this year. read full post
Humanising the Enterprise through Ambient Social Knowledge
The solution to information overload is more information, combined with a looser, more intuitive approach to processing it. People make decisions by matching patterns based on a variety of inputs. Ambient knowledge may actually be more effective for decision making in companies than the codified mono-directional memo, email, and task assignment culture. read full post
Report on the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurs are increasingly adopting the idea of social networking as a core activity, and this was a key area of focus at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford last week read full post
Social Software as a force multiplier for existing corporate systems
Adopting social software in the enterprise does mean throwing out other systems; in fact, it can bring them to life by layering on user-generated metadata to recombine existing data in new, more flexible ways read full post
Who owns the linkages?
Louis Rosenfeld thinking about EIA as corporate IP - bring on the lawyers! read full post
Fallibilism and the open enterprise
Mark McElroy's paper Understanding 'The New Knowledge Management' makes a case for KM helping to create the Open Enterprise (cf. Popper's Open Society) read full post
Enterprise-wide metadata - is it even possible?
One of the problems with Enterprise Information Archtecture is that the logic of the discipline is fine, but it can often lead to initiatives that fail to appreciate the difficulty of achieving coordination across large organisations. Louis Rosenfeld is a... read full post
TechKnowledgy applications for individual effectiveness
Dave Pollard wants KM and IT to unite to produce simple, personal TechKnowledgy tools read full post
Egovernment@large's enterprise architecture paper
"The essence of [the] paper is that before technology, data ... was our main asset. We need to go back to the data being the asset" read full post
Danish government invites comments on enterprise architecture
Danish government draft paper on web service-oriented architecture read full post
