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Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst

Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalystSoftware specifically designed to catalyze cultural transformationThis is exactly our driver at OpenTeams. We started with the question "how can organizations change to be more innovative, engaging, and entrepreneurial?", then built web-hosted collaborative software designed explicitly to drive that cultural change (with integrated...

Tags: Groupware, Enterprise 2.0, corporate culture catalyst, collaboration, corporate culture

Discussion threads 2007-05-07

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Women and leadership

Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Moore's second law proves need for open source

Moore's second law proves need for open sourceOr at least slows down...I don't know that innovation "stops" without open source, but it would definitely grind to a crawl. Can you imagine what life would be like if the only tools to build software were commercial products? Ugh! OSS...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Java development tools, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, OSS, tool, open source, dictator, environment, Microsoft Visual Studio, software

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

Ponder this: how many businesspeople are begging for SOA?

Jack van Hoof has a way of cutting right to the chase, and in a recent post, put the entire SOA-as-IT-and-business-aligner vision in it's proper perspective:"Up till now, at this very moment in time, I didn't meet one single business manager who begged me to please deliver him an SOA-based...

Tags: Business ROI, General

Blog posts 2007-05-31

News to know: Zimbra's big deal; Dell and Novell; Vista's hidden tool

Notable headlines:Dan Farber: Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite. David Berlind: Zimbras Scott Dietzen Unplugged: Comcast deal puts Zimbra in the big leagues now. News story.AP: Dell Signs on With Microsoft, Novell.Dan Farber: Massive IBM U.S. Global Services layoff on the horizon? Sphere focuses search on time and...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-07

Enterprise 2.0 as a corporate culture catalyst

Ive only recently had a chance to catch up and read Tom Davenports post a few weeks ago about his skepticism of Enterprise 2.0s ability to wreak significant cultural and hierarchical change inside organizations. Those of you tracking the Enterprise 2.0 story know the drill, namely that applying Web 2.0...

Tags: Wikis, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Tagging, Social Software, Social Computing, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Products, Network Effects, Mashups, Governance, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, ATOM, Architecture of Participation

Blog posts 2007-05-05

Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roost

Digital culturus interruptus: Right here, right now, the almighty copyright finally comes home to roostI liked this article so much...I bought the domain! (theothertube.com)Excellent reporting!Thanks David,this is the sort of in-depth article that ZDNet needs - factual, up-to-date, informative and entertaining. Too often lately others have posted rehashed old non-news....

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, recording industry, Joe Blow, Viacom Inc., media company, Roy Orbison, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-13

Transformation, agility: are expectations too high for SOA?

Theres been a lot of discussion lately about SOA "failures," and already, statistics are showing up showing that this percentage or that percentage of companies consider their SOA projects to be failures. Expect to see plenty more of such surveys over the coming months and years. Survey data shows...

Tags: Business ROI, General, SOA Surveys and Research, Vendor Watch

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Seven areas of opportunity around SOA, circa 2007

SOA is a challenge, but abounds with opportunities -- not only to streamline a process, but to change the way a business is managed. Technology -- along with SOA evangelization --may be the catalyst that could bring an organization out of its creaky, hidebound corporate culture and begin to seize...

Tags: Web Services, Standards Watch, Business ROI, General, SOA

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Notes from the tech conference underground

The extended spring tech conference season is beginning to wind down. I have done my share of time watching panels, keynotes and pitches, and hanging out in hallways and lobbys looking for fresh material, seeking out the strongest signals that portend what’s in store for the future. Based on absorbing...

Tags: Supernova

Blog posts 2006-07-05

University nixes Mac hacker contest

University nixes Mac hacker contestWhy and why herePublish it to slashdot.org and see how you go;-)"Though I don't consider myself a zealot but someone mimicking Dave's challenge with Windows to see how it fairs under the same challenge."Yet you are using windows server, whereas it was the desktop version of...

Tags: SECURITY, Apple Macintosh, Well Windows, FUD, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-03-08

Microsoft staffer charged with stealing search code

Microsoft staffer charged with stealing search codeImagine that........gee who would've thought.....Yesireee, that's the only way Microsoft can compete..Theft, evil-handed tactics, or aquisition...They probably only hired him because he said he had the code..!2 centsCould he have initiated it or did Microsoft initiate the hiring of the person....What was the...

Tags: SEARCH, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-07-12