At the beginning of the year, on January 2 in fact, I wrote about reciprocity. My hopes were that we’d begin using the behavior of reciprocity both within the walls of our organizations as well as being members of society at large. It’s my personal belief that we’ve taken some positive steps forward in society (think you, as a person) but within the construct of organizations (or work life) we’re not where we should be. A joint effort of Capgemini Consulting and the MIT Center for Digital Business resulted in a wonderful report recently published entitled, “Digital Transformation: A Road-Map for Billion-Dollar Organizations”. One key line struck me: Whether using new or traditional technologies, the key to digital transformation is re-envisioning and driving change in
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Do you have “if you build it, they will come” syndrome in your organization? That is, you’ve been rolling out a litany of Enterprise 2.0 / Collaboration tools at your organization but no one is actually collaborating, contributing or connecting. Do you have “That’s no moon, it’s a space station” syndrome in your organization? That is, you have no idea how to start your Collaboration / Enterprise 2.0 journey because it looks to be the size (and effort) of a Death Star. Do you have “Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” syndrome in your organization? That is, the people within your organization are clamoring to be more collaborative, but you can’t figure out
Although Boston, Austin and Silicon Valley are home to both companies and personalities considered to be heavyweights in the Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Social Business, Technology, Open Leadership, Social Learning and Social Media spaces, — phew — I’d like to introduce you to Vancouver – or, as I’d like to rename it, Vancoolver. Although biased, I truly believe there is something in the water at the home of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Let’s start first with the companies. Invoke Media (makers of Hootsuite) Ryan Holmes et al are ahead of their time. The social media dashboard juggernaut app known as Hootsuite is used by the NBA, Fox and even the White House. They build other web-based apps too, and there’s no telling what they’ll dream up
As I was taking in the keynotes of the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston recently, Ross Mayfield (@ross) opined on center stage the following: “Discover people through content. Discover content through people.” He also stated that: “companies are not communities” You can review and access his slides from the E2.0 Conference over here. Now, I’ve never started a business like Ross has with Socialtext, nor am I the business development head honcho of a company like Slideshare, as Ross is, however, in the spirit of collaboration I’d like to append his two points. Since I entered the work world after completing my undergraduate degree now 17 years ago, there has been only one constant: People connect people That is how knowledge transfer, networking and collaboration