Summary: Enterprise 2.0 Blog
Enterprise 2.0 Blog
Entry from Kim Austin, member of the Cisco Collaboration Solutions
Marketing team. Technology continues to change not only the tools
we use, but the language we use to describe it. Wikipedia describes
consumerization as: …an increasingly accepted term used to describe
the growing tendency for new information technology to emerge first
in the consumer market [...]
Date Published: May 21, 2012 - 12:38 pm
We are in the midst of a big shake out in how organizations use
social technologies. As we develop a common understanding of the
opportunities and risks, better decisions are being made about when
and how to use the technology available. We are no longer having
exciting breakthroughs every day, so the changes in the [...]
Date Published: May 04, 2012 - 11:21 am
As organizations work to transition collaboration and social pilots
to enterprise-wide initiatives, architectural questions
increasingly rise to the fore: How can we integrate with other
systems? How do we incorporate enterprise directory structures? How
can we ensure performance and reliability at scale? How can we
convert features to applications? How can we put social
applications [...]
Date Published: Apr 20, 2012 - 11:04 am
Social technologies are changing the ways we market and sell,
that’s obvious. But the change is not simply superficial or
new ways to do the same old work. Social — along with
analytics and mobile technologies — is enabling companies to be far
more knowledgeable about who they target, what messages they
deliver, and even [...]
Date Published: Apr 11, 2012 - 4:51 pm
The management model in most organizations is out of step with our
times. The model of the past is a hierarchical structure, with a
bureaucracy that runs on conformity, control, standardization, and
specialization. It was designed for large organizations to be
efficient at scale, not to address the ways humans work best. Come
to this [...]
Date Published: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:58 pm
We’ve got an intriguing Human Capital Management track lined up for
the June Boston E2.0 Conference in a business area which is
starting to see enormous change after years as a bureaucratic
people processing departmental silo. Like many other industry
verticals the Human Resources world is being exposed to the
connecting forces of enterprise 2.0 [...]
Date Published: Apr 04, 2012 - 4:22 pm
Much of the chatter out there around Enterprise 2.0 and Social
Business revolves around the growth and application of social
tools, and, why not? After all, these technologies have often been
the catalysts for the charge forward. Right now much of the
discussion sounds like: “We need to get our employees using these
tools so [...]
Date Published: Apr 02, 2012 - 2:03 pm
With a new year comes new beginnings, and as 2012 gets underway, I
want to give an update on how Enterprise 2.0 is shaking things up
this year. Evolved Positioning I’m excited about the direction this
brand is headed. Enterprise 2.0 has been a key driver in pushing
social forward, creating a forum for buyers [...]
Date Published: Jan 05, 2012 - 4:41 pm
Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara kicked off today with pre-conference
workshops, where attendees filled up rooms to get their social
business education on. As I walked through the convention center, I
saw a lot of old friends, colleagues, as well as first time
attendees who were in awe of all the great content Paige Finkelman
put [...]
Date Published: Nov 14, 2011 - 4:33 pm
‘Human Resources’ is an early 1960′s term but now seems pretty
archaic in our ‘always on’ era of broadband and mobile networked
connectivity. The needs of the people and collective cultures
within enterprises continue to evolve rapidly, with increasing
emphasis placed on interactions through the firewall with
prospects, customers and partners being seen of value [...]
Date Published: Nov 07, 2011 - 10:51 am