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The consumerisation of enterprise software

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 [...]

The future of social analytics

This is a great presentation on social analytics.  It touches on the importance of moving beyond capturing data in nice charts and graphs to understanding meaning and generating real insight – requiring the application of semantics and sociology.  Also interesting is the prediction that social analytics become a key plank in enterprise 2.0.  That [...]

Enterprise 2.0 and middleware-as-a-service

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 adds microblogging to Lotus

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.

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Enterprise 2.0 and the economics of abundance

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 [...]

Twitter as a productivity tool

Since reading in Time this morning about How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live I have been musing on what that effect will be, and indeed how to think about the effect of Facebook and other social media, all from a professional perspective.

There is a lot of fun and social value to [...]

In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power?

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’ [...]

Enterprise2.0 – McKinsey reports it is starting to work

You know something is approaching the mainstream when it gets a write up in a McKinsey quarterly report, and so it is with Enterprise2.0, or as they would have it web2.0 in the enterprise.  They have been studying 50+ early adopter enterprises in this space for two years now and the write up shows [...]

Best Buy shows the importance of culture in the modern corporation

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 [...]

The future of the desktop will look very different from today

There is good, if rather long, piece on ReadWriteWeb this morning about the future of the desktop. This topic is of wide ranging significance, particularly for anyone with an interest in cloud computing, desktop apps and the browser.

I would highlight these points the article makes: None of the webtop services around today have [...]