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The consumerisation of IT is a much talked about theme of the last ten years or so. The definition per Wikipedia is: Consumerization … describes the trend for new information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business organizations, resulting in the convergence of the IT and consumer electronics [...] A friend of mine is currently considering taking a senior role at integration software vendor Tibco, a business I’m pretty familiar with from my Reuters days. We were discussing their long term prospects as applications move increasingly to the cloud, which raised the question of how companies will integrate (or share data between) the [...] IBM has added a bunch of enterprise 2.0 features to its Lotus Connections suite including status updates. I think this could be a big deal. Status updates could provide the communications glue that keeps everybody aligned and on strategy even as decision making and power are delegated to the edge of the organisation. [...] I haven’t written much about Enterprise 2.0 recently, perhaps because the slow rate of adoption has stemmed the flow of interesting startups in this area, but I remain convinced that it’s time will come. That conviction was strengthened this morning when reading the chapter on the economics of abundance in Anderson’s Free. Early in [...] Us Now is ‘A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet’, and this is the question they pose at the top of their site. It is a great question too – ‘information is power’ is an old cliche, but in the web era information is everywhere, and hence ‘power’ [...] Last week I had the good fortune of meeting Peter Hirshberg and today I checked out his blog and a write up of an interview Peter did with Brad Anderson, CEO of Best Buy, at the Google Zeitgeist conference in September. It turns out that Best Buy has embraced the use of social media [...] |
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