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14 years ago @ Seek Omega - The 2010 Enterprise 2.... · 0 replies · +1 points

Me too on Steve

14 years ago @ Seek Omega - The 2010 Enterprise 2.... · 1 reply · +1 points

Thanks for including me here, Mark. Id second the vote for Bertrand and Id also like to see Lee Bryant, way up top.

14 years ago @ > Blog Home - When "as a service" ma... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good stuff Eric. I think it goes far beyond redefining the document and towards leveraging social objects but I can appreciate why you used this as an example given how E2.0 has consistently been positioned (really discounted) as the Email, PDF, MS Office and IM killer.

In my recent post (http://bit.ly/X10Dp) I touched on how organization design (both internal and external connections) are a series of partnerships that need to be nurtured. Each relationship has unique objectives and incentives for success and no general purpose so called E.20 software will, on its own, accelerate performance in every relationship. Lots of design as well as technology gaps still need to be filled to account for context and performance objectives. So I'm with you.

14 years ago @ > Blog Home - Crossing the Social Me... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm with J.B. Super post. Its about driving performance - and that comes from surgically facilitating interaction between customers, partners, employees and suppliers, via social computing constructs and technologies. And Defrag certainly provides the forum to debate how this can work.

14 years ago @ > Blog Home - Making Enemies · 1 reply · +1 points

Lots of E2.0 vendors have done this in one form - SharePoint being that enemy. Unfortunately what your doing there is competing not necessarily with SharePoint, but with free (MOSS comes w/ exchange) and the tolerance for not-ideal-but-free is extremely high. I wish more did it this broadly - against a mode of doing business (a la Saleforce). At the point the industry gains and you get the rising tide effect.

MSFT just declared SocialText as a competitor - which you could argue was contrary to this mode of thinking. A cynical view would go like this: Jive, Telligent, etc., are large competitors that MS has to be weary of. But since the 10K filing is really a bureaucratic requirement, why further amp up the valuation of large competitors by naming them? So they pick one competitor from the pack (that they no doubt should worry about) but leave out bigger ones that they might consider acquiring in the near future.
I'm digressing from your central point but when you think through the issue of naming an enemy, there's so many strategic ways to skin this. Thanks again for a great post.

14 years ago @ > Blog Home - Resolving some dissonance · 0 replies · +1 points

Agree - Defrag is very different from both the other conferences. Defrag goes deep into issues that organizations will have to deal with in the near future - touching on "undercurrent" subjects that folks don't have the presence of mind to see given that they are buried in solving the challenges of today.

All three conferences have their place - my point was simply to state that there's a lot of enterprise related stuff going on in Nov. I'm just lucky that 2 of the 3 are in my hood - )

14 years ago @ The FASTForward Blog - Enterprise 2.0 Isn't a... · 0 replies · +1 points

Seriously Paula, you knocked this one out of the park. I've read it 3 times now :)

The only thing I'll add is that we also need to be comfortable or at least open to the possibility that a one size fits all (horizontal) platform may not be optimal. I know IT might cringe at that thought, but it may well be that in some cases verticalized apps, designed around specific business activity, are a better fit. That folds in intent from get go, and might make shifting focus, culture and thinking a tad easier.

Big kudos, once again.

14 years ago @ The FASTForward Blog - Understanding the role... · 0 replies · +1 points

Good stuff Jevon
Enterprise 2.0 is really a state the *enterprise* achieves via social computing. The problem is that this rush to deploy organization-wide (which naturally makes IT a target customer) dilutes the effect that this new business paradigm can have on specific functions. Unfortunately as a result, the target estimated payback that you can achieve via this horizontal lens ends up being the lowest common denominator, across many individual business processes.
Instead of rallying around a better target process, its better to focus on say, recasting a less risky product development process, or a significantly accelerated sales cycle or tighter lead qualification. The social business inputs to achieve these gains can now be much more easily articulated and in a way that gets strategic and LOB muscle behind it.

15 years ago @ Mendelson's Musings - Which Sports Car Are You? · 0 replies · +1 points

How fun. I'm a 911. Not overtly suprised :)

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