Yesterday I saw at the TV a film (Terra X, ZDF German TV) about pirates. For sure they were terrible brutal people, like they are still today. So I do not really like pirates, but we can probably learn from them. They started a “new business” which was new at this time before. At the [...]
Some days ago I got a presentation about Moxie, an enterprise social collaboration sollution. Moxie’s basic philosophy is to design their solution the way people work They see that people work with people and that they work together in groups and projects. This is reflected in the structure of Moxie’s ‘Home page’ which features (customizable) [...]
The introduction of Enterprise 2.0 in a business is always an interesting question, though not quite as it was a few years. Today one can learn from many successful best practice examples. The times of trial and error are over. Nevertheless, the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 should be done carefully. The strategy for the introduction [...]
Avantgarde – one of Germany’s leading live-communications agencies with more than 300 employees and 16 locations worldwide – and its subsidiary Trendbüro decided to use a customized version of the microblogging solution Communote to strengthen internal communications. In this interview, they provide an insight into the thoughts and experiences on the use of a new [...]
Last week I got a live presentation from Eli McCargar from Blogtronix. They call their solution an Enterprise social platform. I know it from our social messaging vendor study very well. So we agreed to focus on the new features, as I will do with this blog post as well. Everything around groups Working in [...]
The topics intranet, collaboration (Enterprise 2.0) and document management are converging on. This development will be addressed now by the Information & Organization Management Summit (IOM Summit). For this Congress a new concept was developed from proven elements. From Intranet Summit Enterprise 2.0 and ECM Forum Summit, a new format was created, which offers participants [...]
The new spy scandal of Renault shows impressively that it doesn’t help, if a company tries to secure research and development plans. You can’t ever be sure that not some of your employees are selling some insights to your competitor. Then it’s probably better changing to an open discussion from the beginning. The competitors will [...]
Many Enterprise 2.0 projects are implemented by communications or IT department. It was often simply done, because E20 is very close to their field of work and mostly the projects are initiated and driven by one of these departments. A lot of times not even bad, but other departments like HR for example are not [...]
Using blogs within a company can be a useful tool. Looking for a best practice example for a seminar I had some discussions around this topic. I recognized that it’s not easy to start and run a successful good blog. One example out of my projects shows that it can fail easily. A business manager [...]
Information security versus openness
There is a strong development of mobile access. More and more people are using smart phones to access the Internet, reading e-mails or using other online services. It is convenient and they can do it when they can’t do other things, like if they are waiting for their flight or train. Good reasons to ask [...]