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 [...]
Redesigning the Enterprise from the People Up
Top-down business process design is getting a bit of a bad rap at the moment, and deservedly so, say some. There’s a new meme in town called social business that says we should design enterprise systems around the people that…
Dachis Business Summit – you know, the Social one!
Now look. I have a real problem with the term “Social Business” as it’s being used by Dachis and IBM and others. However, let me put that to one side for another post later this week, but it’s a thread that starts here and runs through my thoughts on the London edition of the Dachis [...]
Reflections on Social Business Summit 2011 – Syndey and Austin
Over the last year, the discussion of the many business uses of social media has been coalescing into an industry-wide, interdisciplinary conversation that’s increasingly focused around the moniker of ‘social business.’ This conversation — which many think provides the clearest perspective yet on how social computing is transforming how we work — has begun to [...]
