A couple of conversations recently have made me review some of the literature and links about "enterprise 2".
From stuff I've been reading, or re-visiting:
- Web 2.0: beyond the buzz words — Lee (Bryant), Headshift, and John Seely Brown interviewed about 'social networking, wikis, social bookmarks, blogging and RSS newsfeeds'.
- Connect and Develop: inside Procter & Gamble's new model for innovation. Collaborative networks extending far, far beyond the enterprise as formerly conceived. There's a good take on this by Nicholas Nova.
- Headshift's work at Allen & Overy. See this piece in Information World Review. (See also my earlier post, Edging the enterprise forward.)
- Andrew McAfee: Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration (purchase needed). I have also found Andrew's The Teenybopper Network more than passingly interesting — 'is Facebook the shape of things to come for E2.0? Is network building a good way to bring people to collaboration technologies?'.
- J P Rangaswami (Chief Information Officer of Global Services for BT Group) requires no introduction here. His blog is full of fizzy, liberating ideas — for enterprise and more. What JP's done with email is reported on by Stowe (and by Jim Guterman on the O'Reilly Radar blog) — well, I'd love to know more about it and how it's going down. By the way, this is one of my favourite quotations from JP:
I believe that Moore’s Law and Metcalfe's Law and Gilder’s Law have created an environment where it is finally possible to demonstrate the value of information technology in simple terms rather than by complex inferences and abstract arguments.
- More links about business/enterprise and Web 2.0 here: firstly, under the tag Enterprise 2.0 on my del.icio.us account; then, on my blog, under the category commerce. In the latter, these specific posts might be most useful: Knowledge workers, Silicon Valley comes to Oxford, Commerce and the web/Web 2.0, Commerce, innovation and Web 2.0 (again), Pro-Ams.
- Finally, see also Dion Hinchcliffe on the recent McKinsey & Company article, 'The next revolution in interactions' (free registration required). Over a year ago now, I clipped a bit from this here.
