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• Posted Seeing what's next... at the Social Business Summit 2010 to Blog
  Clayton M. Christensen describes in his innovation book "Seeing What's Next" IBM's strategy of focusing on designing computing machines where they control and develop everything, going from processor, memory, hard drives, to the operating system and software. This gives IBM...
• Posted Social Software doesn't really matter to Blog
  "Clients usually ask us how they can drill that hole in the wall. As consultants we are obsessed with finding the best drill that does it in the fastest and most cost-effective way. Sadly, we often forget to ask the...
• Posted Your business changes, your documents don't to Blog
  Last week, a client asked us for some help with finding a good name for their Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge platform. The internal Headshift chat was buzzing with suggestions and one person remarked that in his previous company they called...
• Commented on Cloud culture and the fight for self-preservation
  Just noticed that they've published some video excerpts from the evening http://cloudculture.posterous.com/cloud-culture-launch-video-by-debbie-davies...
• Posted Cloud culture and the fight for self-preservation to Blog
  A couple of days ago, I attended the presentation of Charles Leadbeater's "Cloud Culture: the future of global cultural relations" at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and I have to say that it was one of the more...
• Commented on Adopting Enterprise 2.0 in large organisations: Fiat or Ferrari?
  @jjeff great to see that your experience/insight is aligned with ours! it's one of the things I'd sometimes like to yell out loudly "just let's get started already!" :)...
• Posted Do you want to succeed or survive? to Blog
  One of the moments in my career that had a deep impact on me was a conversation with an account manager in my previous consulting firm. I gave a presentation to a whole account team about using innovative solutions to...
• Commented on Adopting Enterprise 2.0 in large organisations: Fiat or Ferrari?
  @Jorgen @Ralf I really like the statement "What is important is that the tools must lower the cost of the collaboration - not increase it through complexity." But we do need to see "the cost" in the bigger picture. To...
• Commented on The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma
  Thanks Felix for the great insight! I think your thinking is way ahead than what I had in mind with this post :) You are completely correct that throwing "just" raw hardware at your data won't solve the problem. That's...
• Posted Adopting Enterprise 2.0 in large organisations: Fiat or Ferrari? to Blog
  A lot of people are dreaming about driving a Ferrari one day, unfortunately only a few are privileged. So what do you do if you are a car nut? You start with a Fiat Grande Punto, later on upgrade to...
• Commented on The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma
  Hi Felix, the Exadata v2 shows only what is possible with new hardware advancements. There seems to be quite low adoption of the Exadata machines in the market (think partially because of their cost factor). MySpace is one of the...
• Commented on How to sell Social Media in your organisation
  Hi Cecil, very coincident indeed! Quite like your post where you talk about the same concept but make it even more tangible what to do than mine ;-)...
• Posted How to sell Social Media in your organisation to Blog
  Why don't they understand that social media can help us working more efficiently? Those stupid corporate drones! I want to get it more widespread in the organisation but every time I hit this frustrating wall! Sounds familiar? It's a frustration...
• Posted The structured vs. unstructured data dilemma to Blog
  One of the first things you learn at university in your first year of computer science is data normalisation. I don't know about the other people out there, but I found it such an utterly boring course. Mankind has such...
• Commented on SharePoint 2010 - Bringing the Social back into the Enterprise
  @JB yep, I've seen the webinar on SharePoiint 2010 and SocialSites. Looked pretty good!...
• Posted SharePoint 2010 - Bringing the Social back into the Enterprise to Blog
  Let's be honest with each other, Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 isn't the best kid in class with respect to being an Enterprise 2.0 or social media platform. Although the dedicated Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Social Computing website boasts the enterprise social...
• Posted Data ubiquity threatening usefulness of Enterprise 2.0 to Blog
  (This blog post is co-written with Nigel Walsh from the Enterprise Mashups vendor Corizon and started over a bowl of porridge.) "Content and data are everywhere. People are creating and curating content like never before. As data storage becomes cheaper,...
• Commented on Closing the gap between Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media
  @Jiri, good point. It's often a budget / political reason why there is a big split between social media and enterprise 2.0. however, I can live with that. I'm bit more upset that a lot of companies don't seem to...
• Commented on Closing the gap between Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media
  @Mike regarding your first remark, I had earlier today on Gmail Chat with @rickmans a similar discussion where he said that we need to extend the question "what does the user want", with "... and why?". He pre-emptively tackled my...
• Commented on Closing the gap between Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media
  @Martijn haha, yes i'm quite lucky that i get the opportunity and time to write down some of my thoughts in blog posts and articles. sadly, there is a backlog of posts, so slowly catching up... I would almost say...
• Posted Closing the gap between Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media to Blog
  The user interface isn't that important you know. It's just an internal intranet application that will be only used by our employees. Just focus on the business logic and make sure that everything is locked down for security." It's unfortunately...
• Commented on The agile enterprise - dream or possibility?
  One very interesting article, shared with me by Peter Evans-Greenwood touches the same topic but further explains the different pulse that business and technology are operating: http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2009/06/22/why-we-cant-keep-up/ Must read!...
• Commented on The agile enterprise - dream or possibility?
  Nigel, thanks for the nice build up. I agree with your first point, and even more I want to ask everyone to stop blaming each other or pointing fingers. certain decisions that might sound now wrong, were often a good...
• Commented on The agile enterprise - dream or possibility?
  Hi Tom, yes I fully agree. I wrote about the topic of IT departments transforming from solutions providers to solutions enabler in a "previous life" http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog/2009/04/it_department_from_solutions_p.php...
• Posted The agile enterprise - dream or possibility? to Blog
  The most interesting people are not the ones that tap you on the shoulder and say "well done", but the ones that challenge the whole fundament of your ideas. Following up on my blog post "Divide and conquer to solve...
• Commented on links for 2009-11-30
  The Decentralised Enterprise Architecture link is a pretty good one! Think this quote from Andy Mulholland: "as architecture moves beyond the functional requirements of computer-driven transactions towards the interaction of people around rich graphical presentations, we are going to need...
• Posted Divide and conquer to solve the business-IT disconnect problem to Blog
  "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...
• Commented on Writing makes us free
  One concern of mine is that there will a growing gap between the people that are "connected" and the people that are left out. I've experienced and I've seen with the people around me that with the proper use of...