In my height of blogging, I often started a topic for a blog post with a tweet. For this topic, it reads: “There’s a downside to efficiency of communication when customers have a history with you and expect the opposite.” This sounds a little cryptic, so let me elaborate. There’s a few variables that are [...]
We’ve got a pretty tight team this year, much like last year, but with some changes. I’d like to write a little about team-dynamics and what I think that works, without getting into details, if possible. What I previously wrote about teams is plenty. I met Jeremy when we did a project analyzing what teams [...]
I finished my last post on the stance that, realistically, all enterprises today are partially networked and they should be. The question for a company is always to what extent they should ‘externalise’ the processes of their company and to what extent they should ‘internalise’ them. There certainly is a mix of fear, greed, and [...]
Cecil Dijoux has been writing a lot on what he calls the networked enterprise on this and his site. He’s a big believer in it and I respect that even though I disagree on a great many points with him. This post is the beginning of a response to him—I would have to summarise many [...]
This is not a post about the macro-economic climate. I tend to think that we all make our own fate, though certainly financial conditions affected the way I perceived certain things. It’s more a post about a guy who’s never been an entrepreneur, but who watched, interacted, and tried to learn a lot about entrepreneurship [...]
I have been working in the IT industry for the last 20 years and I’ve witnessed that company or activities within companies go through different stages according to the same pattern. A paradigm is adopted and then the productivity increases up until it reaches a plateau. Then a new paradigm/innovation model is adopted, put in [...]
The door slid open slowly, all that was visible from inside the store was a wide beam of light that slowly expanded into the shape of a door. The automatic triggers kicked in and the other security-panels in front of the windows slide open also, illuminating the last retail store left in the world 2020. [...]
Starting a business, just like anything else, really is defined through personal contexts. For instance, I’m a first-time entrepreneur and my partner is a 4-5-6th (hard to keep count) entrepreneur—for him, he views starting a business very differently than me. There are other differences as well, such as age, type of education, culture, marital status, [...]
Ever since the first time Andrew McAfee coined the term, the definition of Enterprise 2.0 has constantly evolved. Arguably, the most appropriate has been : “The use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers.” Regardless of how good these definitions have been, none of them has given [...]
Let me start by saying that it’s hard to write about what we’re doing, particularly from a non-marketing angle. Tech IT Easy is a .Org and it doesn’t feel right to use it as a commercial medium (apart from the sponsorship banner, which I value very much and which will at some point host my [...]
This is a question I love to ask in the Enterprise 2.0 interviews : Broadly speaking, one can say that there are 2 types of Enterprise 2.0 activists. The revolutionaries and evolutionaries. The formers believe that collaborative platforms are disruptive technology that will deeply change the organisations. The latter think this is an incremental evolution [...]
I made a fairly big mistake with my company at the start, I tried to segment functions in the company too fast. Maybe it was my business education, maybe it was books like “The E-myth Revisited,” and certainly it was my lack of management experience, but I tried to keep my area focussed on business [...]
(Hi It’s Cecil here. A french version of this blog post is available on Heavy Mental) The Enterprise 2.0 Forum to be held on 17 and March 18 in Paris at the Meridien Montparnasse will present some case studies. The Swiss Re project is one of them. So I’ve contacted Jive Software for an interview [...]
I have been thinking about this topic for a while now. Enterprise 2.0 book from Andrew McAfee chapter 8 (Looking ahead), a nice twitter conversation with @oscarberg, and a New York Times article about Microsoft Creative Destruction : all combine to convince me there was some room for a blog post. Snip from the NYT [...]
Early Strategies has just released a fresh an extremely useful report on Enterprise 2.0 and the current level of adoption. This international (FR, UK, NE, US) survey (summary) was conducted between November 2009 and January 2010, targeting Multinational Companies (MNCs) and international organizations (France-Telecom, Cisco, AT&T, Amadeus, IBM etc …). The clear intent was to [...]
