Collaboration 2.0

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Oliver Marks — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:26:29 +0000

Time is Money: Where’s the Beef? The now biannual US ‘Enterprise 2.0‘ conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology enthusiasts but in the world of the enterprise - [...]

Andrew McAfee & Enterprise 2.0 conference

Oliver Marks — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:59:16 +0000

A very busy week in San Francisco at the inaugural West coast Enterprise 2.0 conference, which has proved very successful so far. I’ll write a longer post after the conclusion Thursday, but for now here’s a brief video discussion between myself and Andrew McAfee about his new book, ‘Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s [...]

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

Oliver Marks — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:54:09 +0000

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I’m revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and tactics of companies rely on a trusted cadre of advisors and keep their [...]

Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

Oliver Marks — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:28:37 +0000

After last week’s announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their ‘Social Business Software 4‘ yesterday at their San Francisco ‘Jiveworld‘ event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling with this far more customer centric occasion - one of Jive’s signature characteristics [...]

John Hagel on Real Time, Social & Mobile Web

Oliver Marks — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:00:26 +0000

3 short video clips full of insight from John Hagel Real Time Web: Exception Handling Social Web: Tacit Knowledge Mobile Web: Early stages of value propositions in integrating physical and virtual worlds __ Also of interest regarding the mobile web: Mary Meeker’s slides from last week’s Web 2.0 Summit (you may want to jump to slide 28 for start of [...]

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Oliver Marks — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:21:15 +0000

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies. This [...]

Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

Oliver Marks — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:10:01 +0000

Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft’s nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft’s silicon valley digs - announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for both sides and extends the simple to use but [...]

SharePoint 2010 Vegas First Impressions

Oliver Marks — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:25:55 +0000

Kirk J Koenigsbauer • Microsoft Trying to write a blogpost about the SharePoint 2010 announcements today here in Las Vegas is like trying to summarize Microsoft in a few paragraphs. SharePoint, the fastest growing product in the company’s history, is also arguably the heir to the post billg empire. As foundational to the future of Microsoft [...]

Saluting SAP & Oracle Communities

Oliver Marks — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:46:13 +0000

This is a fascinating big enterprise week in the US, with Oracle Open World dominating downtown San Francisco (and making the taxi drivers very happy), and SAP TechEd running concurrently in Phoenix. Oracle do a good job of putting Open World online and I attended last year, so this year I’m currently in Phoenix with the [...]

Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces

Oliver Marks — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:30:58 +0000

The problem is as old as work itself: you’re working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you’re carrying the weight of entire projects on your back and no one appears aware [...]