Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is our Social Business collaborative lab where we engage and explore an ongoing discussion, share thoughts, opinions, and ideas on Social Business.
Six Social Business Trends To Watch
Blog PostIt will come as little surprise to readers here that businesses this year have been getting increasingly serious about social media as they find that their customers are spending a rapidly growing amount of time there. The most recent numbers show that Americans are spending nearly a quarter of their online time in social networks, far ahead of other forms of Internet activity. The numbers worldwide aren't much different and implications for businesses are many and varied. I've explored these extensively before and it goes well beyond such ideas like "Facebooking" the enterprise. Yet due to the top-down way most organizations operate, businesses continue to fall behind what's happening in the marketplace today. Unfortunately, the underpowered, non-scalable, expensive, and fundamentally limited value creation techniques of yesteryear won't begin to suffice in today's rapidly emerging Social Business landscape.
Connecting the Dots Between the Cloud and Enterprise 2.0
Blog PostYesterday in Portland at OSCON's Cloud Summit I spoke about major emerging trends in business, IT, and the Web. Specifically, I explored how Enterprise 2.0, Cloud Computing, and something known as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) have converged on top of the same "problem space" to become the essential fabric for how we solve the business problems in our organizations.
Spotify-hippies Redefining Ownership and Control in the Enterprise
Blog PostAfter sipping a few cocktails in the excellent Callooh Callay bar in London, I discovered that the bar's bathroom is decorated with cassettes as you can see in the picture. Followers of my Twitter stream will know that I get my best ideas while enjoying a good glass of red wine or a whisky and so in a lightly alcohol-infused state I started pondering over the events in the past two decades or so in the music industry that shaped my view on the concept of ownership.
