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ZDNet Author Biography: Dion Hinchcliffe is founder and chief technology officer for the Enterprise Web2.0 advisory and consulting firm Hinchcliffe & Company, based in Alexandria, Virginia. A veteran of software development, Dion has been working for two decades with leading-edge methods to accelerate project schedules and raise the bar for software quality. He...; more about Dion Hinchcliffe »

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Are the iPhone and social networks making the classic Web and intranet obsolete?: There's been an important and relatively sudden change taking place over the last couple of years in the way that we interact with the Web. While direct access or search activity has been and still is the most common way that we access the content and applications of the...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Network, Intranet, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-10-25
How to kick-start 'depressingly low' SOA service consumption: Dion Hinchcliffe says SOA is underused, over-engineered, and slow to change. Time for a more lightweight Web approach? by Joe McKendrick; Tags: SOA, Dion Hinchcliffe, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2009-10-06
Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy: I take a look at twenty-two power laws that will drive forward your organization this year as we look at what will make business and IT successful in the 21st century. A detailed and descriptive dive into next-generation enterprises for the technical and business-oriented alike. by Dion Hinchcliffe; Tags: Law, Strategy, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-10-05
Community management: The 'essential' capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 efforts: It's not a skill that's been widely understood until quite recently, however community management has begun to move to the forefront of discussions about enterprise social computing as the use of social tools begins to climb the maturity curve. Now it's increasingly proving not just useful but a critical...; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-09-28
Creating a unified model for enterprise mashups: Iâ€™ve written here over the years about software mashups; simple combinations of pieces of the Web that are rearranged into new useful forms. I've even called the approach a key to the future of software development. While mashups in the enterprise have been reasonably successful up until now, there...; Tags: Enterprise Mashup, Mashup, Collaboration, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-09-24

Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices: Thereâ€™s been plenty of discussion recently in the blogosphere, including here, about the successes and challenges of Enterprise 2.0 projects. But thereâ€™s still just a rough general sense of what it really takes to create an effective collaborative community using social tools. However, as social computing patterns...; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Best Practice, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-09-17
Government 2.0: A tale of "risk, control, and trust": Yesterday in downtown Washington DC I was fortunate to be able to attend two important Government 2.0 events, the LMI Executive Forum on Mission 2.0 and O'Reilly's Government 2.0 Expo. Both of these events highlighted the benefits as well as the challenges of improving the way the government does...; Tags: Event, Government, Vertical Industries, Web 2.0, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-09-09
How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business: These days in the halls of IT departments around the world there is a growing realization that the next wave of outsourcing, things like cloud computing and crowdsourcing, are going to require responses that will forever change the trajectory of their current relationship with the business, or finally cause them...; Tags: Web, Information Technology, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-09-06
Enterprise 2.0: Finding success on the frontiers of social business: My recent exploration of the potential causes of Enterprise 2.0 failures here on ZDNet sparked a critical discussion in the blogosphere of enterprise social computing and its overall appropriateness, motivations, and benefits to business. In particular, well-known contrarian Dennis Howlett weighed in last week with fairly severe criticism of...; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-09-02
14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail: Iâ€™ve been having some very interesting conversations lately about Enterprise 2.0 failures with ZDNet colleague Michael Krigsman. He is doing research for his work on project failures in this area and is trying to understand the reasons why some Enterprise 2.0 initiatives donâ€™t succeed. In preparing for our talk together,...; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-08-21
Using social software to reinvent the customer relationship: As Web 2.0 applications move more deeply into the strategic operations of enterprises, a unique hybrid of social software has emerged to help businesses deal with the giant sea of customers that awaits them on the other side of the network. While Enterprise 2.0 tools, primarily aimed at collaboration, are...; Tags: Social Software, Collaboration, Web 2.0, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-08-18
Pragmatic new models for enterprise architecture take shape: Hear the words "enterprise architecture" and many people will turn away automatically. It's not that they aren't aware that technology drives so much of the modern world, they just think it doesn't apply to what they do. The famous IT/business divide is too often kept this way because of...; Tags: Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-08-11
The future of enterprise data in a radically open and Web-based world: In recent months, another significant front in the growing trend of open data has emerged, and with it a growing focus on what businesses can do with that most precious asset theyâ€™ve developed at enormous expense over the years: their data. by Dion Hinchcliffe; Tags: Web, Enterprise Data, Asset Management, Databases, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-08-05
Assessing the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace in 2009: Robust and crowded: Social software platforms, including services such as Facebook and Twitter, have become one of the primary channels for communication amongst consumers this year, even eclipsing e-mail in some parts of the developed world. The same however, canâ€™t quite be said yet for the workplace. While the adoption...; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Social Software, Collaboration, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-07-29
Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computing: Last week ZDNetâ€™s Larry Dignan wrote an insightful post that analyzed the recent report from Charlene Li and the Altimeter Group/Wetpaint about early data that seems to show an intriguing correlation between social media engagement and corporate financial performance. The key finding was that companies that are...; Tags: Social Media, Social Computing, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-07-27
First impressions of Google Wave: After spending a few hours using an early version of Google Wave today, it's clear that in its initial incarnation it won't be ejecting existing enterprise collaboration tools from the workplace any time soon. It's not that it isn't impressive, far from it, however Wave's complex interface and open-ended...; Tags: Google Inc., Collaboration, Groupware, Recruitment & Selection, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-07-24
Sorry, the Help Desk Doesn't Cover That.: Dion Hinchcliffe has another good post up, this time on Cloud vs open source: there's a third dimension I'd like to expand on, and that's user support. After all the strategic planning is done, the plumbing hooked up and sawdust swept up, the...; Tags: Environment, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dion, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2009-06-14
Cloud computing and open source face-off: Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...; Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-06-14
Running your SOA like a Web startup: One of the more striking differences between IT and the online world these days is the contrast between traditional enterprise service-oriented architecture and its equivalent on the Web, open APIs. More and more lessons are coming from the online space, providing key insights into how we might invigorate the way...; Tags: Web, Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Marketing, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-06-13
Reconciling social computing with the enterprise: Umair Haque wrote an impressive tract on his Harvard Business blog late last week about Twitter and how it changes the rules of innovation. Itâ€™s an incisive and challenging piece that well worth reading if your looking at cutting-edge business trends. It also helps surface whatâ€™s turning into an increasingly...; Tags: Social Computing, Social Networking, Blogging, Leadership, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2009-06-08