Enterprise 2.0 a bright spot for software in 2012
As some expected, the move to incorporate social media into the way enterprises get work their done has been a difficult one, yet traction increasingly appears to be at hand. Along the way, new software products continue to emerge in the Enterprise 2….
BIG Brands Collaborating to Accelerate Performance. [#e2conf Preview]
Seems like I just got off a plane from this summer’s Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference. But here we are again — the Santa Clara edition of Enterprise 2.0 is around the corner, from the 14th — 17th of November. The event has a good keynote line up that includes the likes of Sandy Carter of [...]
The Confusing World of Social Business
I have the privilege of working with two gentlemen that put most “thought leaders” to shame. I am referring, of course, to Emanuele Quintarelli and Sameer Patel. They are not only very bright in their perceptions of Social Business, but very active in helping make the changes that matter. While I spend my time figuring [...]
Social Business needs a Cnut
Careful with that spelling (for some reason I preferred it to Canute or Kanute). Here is my premise. I think, like Clay Shirky, that we are living in a period of transformation rivalling the changes in society triggered by the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, photography, film, television, or the start of the Internet [...]
Time For Enterprise 2.0 To Get Enterprisey
The funny thing about “Enterprise 2.0”, or social business software, is that it’s not very enterprisey: yes, it is deployed in enterprises, but it often doesn’t deal with the core business of an enterprise. You hear great stories about social software being used to strengthen weak ties through internal social networking, or fostering social production [...]
What Does Moxie Software Think of Social Business?
Next in our series of opinions on Social Business is SAP. Interested in the previous ones? Check out Oracle, Attensity, and Fuze Digital. 1) Where is the Social world going to be in 12 months? 24 months? Companies have traditionally segmented their external customer information from their internal enterprise collaboration, but the real value and power will come [...]
Enterprise 2.0: What if sales lived in the “cloud”?
I’ve attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference every year for the last three years. I’ve met good friends there for the first time, put faces to old friends I hadn’t yet had the pleasure of meeting IRL and I always look forward to catching up with many of the brilliant people I am lucky enough to [...]
Chattering about the Value of Enterprise 2.0
Yesterday Salesforce publicly launched its widely-anticipated ‘Chatter’ enterprise social/collaboration platform – and the debate as to what companies will pay for it is already in full swing.
Enterprise 2.0: Maturing into the mainstream
<p>The Enterprise 2.0 conference, held in Boston this week, reminds us that tools and techniques around collaboration only matter when they deliver concrete business value to corporate processes.</p>
Grand Challenges for the E2.0, SAP and young entrepreneur communities
I am presenting at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston and the Sapience conference in Cologne, Germany this week. I also get a chance to spend some time while in Boston with students at Babson College – a school which has pioneered for years a …
