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The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Andrew McAfee & Enterprise 2.0 conference

A very busy week in San Francisco at the inaugural West coast Enterprise 2.0 conference, which has proved very successful so far. I'll write a longer post after the conclusion Thursday, but for now here's a brief video discussion between myself and Andrew...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Corner of Bar vs Corner of Library: The Twitter Conundrum

On the eve of a couple of international Enterprise 2.0 Conferences, I'm revisiting in this post a core concept about the fundamental dichotomy of behavioral patterns around marketing people and business operations people. As a general rule the people running the strategy and...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-28

John Hagel on Real Time, Social & Mobile Web

3 short video clips full of insight from John Hagel Real Time Web: Exception Handling Social Web: Tacit Knowledge Mobile Web: Early stages of value propositions in integrating physical and virtual worlds ...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms

Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -  announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-22

SharePoint 2010 Vegas First Impressions

Kirk J Koenigsbauer • Microsoft Trying to write a blogpost about the SharePoint 2010 announcements today here in Las Vegas is like trying to summarize Microsoft in a few paragraphs. SharePoint, the fastest growing product in the company's history, is also arguably the...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Saluting SAP & Oracle Communities

This is a fascinating big enterprise week in the US, with Oracle Open World dominating downtown San Francisco and making the taxi drivers very happy, and SAP TechEd running concurrently in Phoenix. Oracle do a good job of putting Open World online and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces

The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much  - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...

Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Life In The Vast Plane...

Why is it that laptops and the internet have been around for a generation and yet the infrastructure we live in still doesn't support them? I'm talking primarily about travel. A vast portion of the working population are regularly on the move, particularly flying, for face...

Tags: Professional Services, Jet, Laptop Computer, Economy Class, Corporate Governance, Internet, Wireless LANs, TVs, Aerospace & Defense, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value

While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....

Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-03

I've joined the Dachis Group

As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...

Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-01

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Fads vs Business Value: Knowledge Management & Enterprise 2.0

Anyone with a computer and access to stock photos can put together a slide presentation and upload it to sites such as slideshare, and sometimes it seems like everyone and his brother is doing just that on social media, enterprise 2.0 and other 2.0-ish subjects. ...

Tags: Knowledge, Training, Originality, Knowledge Management, Harassment, Strategy, Training And Certification, Business Intelligence, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management, Data Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-27

The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards

On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank

Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...

Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-18