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Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices

Learning from Business AdministrationGood points, Dion. The ?enterprise context? is subject in many business models. I think we can learn a lot from so called "integrated management systems" that have been developed in the last decades, e.g. "Total quality management TQM", "European Foundation for Quality Management EFQM" or the one...

Tags: Quality, Strategy, Dion, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

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

Twitter on your intranet: 17 microblogging tools for business

Twitter on your intranet: 17 microblogging tools for businessPlease add blurt.it to your list - soon as open sourceDion, we just launched www.blurt.it a soon to be an open source microblogging platform and I think you need to add it to your list here. We are adding LDAP, SSO, Compliance...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Twitter, Intranet, tool

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

Thought leadership grows around advancing 'WOA plus SOA' as enterprise-cloud duo

Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture SOA, but rather to examine how WOA -- also...

Tags: Leadership, SOA, WOA, Dion, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?

Just how valuable will Cloud computing be to organizations? The ease of deployment and pay-as-you-go pricing model offered through Amazon Web Services, and now Google with its Google App Engine with no pricing model could be a honey trap, as some of my esteemed colleagues here at ZDNet warn. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Dion, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-13

Google Gears next steps closer to Prism, Adobe AIR

Dion Almaer has a post over on his blog about what some of the future Google Gears APIs might look like. This one specifically is about creating desktop shortcuts. It's important to note that this is very, very early so this API is indicative of where Google Gears is going...

Tags: Desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Adobe AIR, Web Browser, Prism, Dion Almaer, Dion, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Enterprise 2.0: The world of flatnesses

Dion Hinchcliffe checks in on the state of Enterprise 2.0 in his latest in-depth post on ZDNet, and covers the major lessons learned from the recent past--such as Enterprise 2.0 is going to happen in your organization whether you like it or not and Enterprise 2.0 is more a...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-22

The consequences of information overload

We've got the makings of a classic salon discussion right out of the playbook of Gertrude Stein emerging here at ZDNet. Dion Hinchcliffe, responding to a thought-provoking post about the nature of change by Mitch Ratcliffe, presents his perspective on what the increasing availability of information means as a...

Tags: Mitch Ratcliffe, Dion

Blog posts 2006-03-20

Additional Resources

News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Photograph, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

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

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Conference alert: let's make SOA work for a living

Welcome to Service Oriented Architecture, Phase 2. It's bigger, It's badder, it's all business.  None of this namby-pamby JBOWs stuff. None of these SOAPY-REST tantrums. SOA is all grown up now, and it's time it starts earning the bacon. I am serving as conference chair and...

Tags: SOA, Conference, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Google Wave: Begging for a classroom

I got my Google Wave invitation Saturday night and, as much as I wanted to race home, log in, and see what all the fuss was about, I decided instead to relish the rest of my 3-day weekend. Now, however, the weekend is essentially over, the sham of a...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Wave, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-12

How to kick-start 'depressingly low' SOA service consumption

Re: NO-bamaHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......what? nt.RE: How to kick-start 'depressingly low' SOA service consumptionIn my view, SOA is firstly about re-engineering the business around services ie business architecture This effort, conducted by IT, is prone to fail for ever.WOA, on the other hand, is still a playing field for IT integration (REST/SOAP) in...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Strategy, WOA, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

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

News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Vonage Holdings Corp., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Psystar, FTC, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Desktops, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy

The Power Law of Social NetworksThanks Dion for this insightful post. I would have included Social Networks themselves which are defined by a power curve. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi illustrates this in his book "Linked, The New Science of Networks." This interconnectivity drives the information age where popular nodes can rise...

Tags: social networking, network, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

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

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

The Black Art of Community ManagementDennis -You add some really excellent social context for Dion's more operations-focused post. You bring up some really good points:- Community management is a cross-functional responsibility. Organizations are not set up really well for cross-functional activities currently. At a minimum community managers should be seen...

Tags: community manager

Discussion threads 2009-09-30