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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. 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’ must [...] 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. Paul Graham of Y-Combinator publishes lists of what he thinks hot areas for startups. This helps channel his deal flow – this is, I think, a smart idea, and one of my motivations behind writing this blog. You can find his list here. The three that resonate most with me are: Last week I attended a Honda Earthdreams event at the kind invitation of 19 Entertainment. As well as the event being fun (Jensen Button talking, F1 car there to look at, lots of interesting people present…) I was struck by the strength and genuineness of the commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The F1 executives [...] Carlotta Perez has long had a strong influence on my thinking, and a key part of that is the belief that the organisational structures and cultures that were optimal in the past may not be best going forward. She argues persuasively that the command and control mode of organisation that characterised the most successful firms [...] |
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