Bringing Knowledge, Relationships, and Experts Together in the Enterprise

In the first article in this series I commented on the web based evolution of systems for matching up experts (and their expertise) with users based on relationship management and social software technologies. In this article I discuss the implementation of such systems within large organizations

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Web 2.0 and Ross Mayfield's SAPPHIRE Blogger Corps Comments

Lately I've been reading Ross Mayfield's Weblog, which I discovered while tracking back an incoming link from him to an earlier posting of mine, Corporate Resistance to Enterprise Web 2.0. Mayfield is CEO of Socialtext and has feet (literally) in both the development and business worlds when it comes to real world applications related to Enterprise Web 2.0. I like how he thinks and writes about enterprise adoption of systems and processes based on Web 2.0 technologies.

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Are DRM and Enterprise Social Networking Compatible?

Are DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems compatible with the current growth in the use of blogging and social networking technologies that actively promote the sharing of information? Maybe not.

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How To Relate Kaplan and Norton's "Alignment" Process to Enterprise Web 2.0

There’s an interesting book excerpt available on the Harvard Business School’s “Working Knowledge” web site titled Managing Alignment as a Process, by Robert S. Kaplan and colleague David P. Norton. I read through the excerpt and what it says about “alignment” is interesting to put into the context of enterprise adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and processes.

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This Podcast Updates Our "Business and IT Working Together on Web 2.0" White Paper

Last January Jeremiah Owyang and I wrote a “white paper” titled Business and I.T. Must Work Together to Manage New “Web 2.0″ Tools. In this 20 minute podcast (available here) we discuss how our thinking has changed since then.

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On Corporate Resistance to Enterprise Web 2.0

Something happened this week that reminded me of the fragility of using the web to deliver rich media content and how some companies might be justified in taking a "wait and see" attitude about still-evolving "web 2.0" technical architectures for handling sensitive or valuable personal or corporate transactions.

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Web 2.0 and the Flat Enterprise

I’ve been trying to figure out what the impacts of “web 2.0” applications and processes will be on “the enterprise.” There are a couple of blogs I read that do tend to evangelize but also they regularly offer useful thinking to put Web 2.0 developments into perspective.

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Office 2.0 Has Arrived. Seriously.

Updated on Monday, February 20, 2006 at 06:36AM by Dennis D. McDonald

No sooner have we grown accustomed to the horrible “Web 2.0” moniker (I plead guilty) than Office 2.0 arrives.

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Business and I.T. Must Work Together to Manage New "Web 2.0" Tools

Significant opportunities to meet market and customer needs are emerging as corporations harness the next generation of “Web 2.0” tools and applications. Many business units recognize this and want to move quickly. But are corporate I.T. (Information Technology) departments ready — and willing — to provide the needed support? This article discusses how business units and corporate I.T. departments can work together to leverage emerging “Web 2.0” applications.

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Corporate IT Governance and "Web 2.0" Applications

For a given technology-based application, system, or service, it's critical for a company to define who owns and is responsible for developing, managing, and running it. Failure to do so can result in "orphan" applications and systems that sit uncomfortably between business and IT, all the while consuming resources (storage space, updates, maintenance, communication costs, infrastructure costs, governance costs, etc.). Even blogs and podcasts can turn into "orphan applications" if we're not careful.

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