In the McKinsey report on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise from 2008, Exhibit 8 reports on how companies adopt Web 2.0 tools. (Click for a larger image) My Comments 1. Look at the satisfaction levels on the right-hand side of the image first. Here’s what I noticed: In […]
In McKinsey’s 2008 report, Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise, Exhibit 5 correlates perceived barriers to success with current rates of satisfaction with Web 2.0 tools in the enterprise: (Click for a larger image) My Comments 1. What jumps out to me is this: where dissatisfaction levels are the […]
Rajesh says that smart people are reluctant to share because their expertise has become “obvious” to them and background thinking, hence they don’t realize that others could benefit from it. Gia shares another perspective in her May 2008 blog post, Why is it so hard to get smart […]
Dan ran some workshops in New Zealand recently to investigate whether email is killing collaboration: “There’s a lot of talk about alternatives to email. But if you look at people on their computers, most of the time they’re not using Web 2 or Enterprise 2. They’re using email. […]
Chris expressed surprise at Mike’s comment about not using videoconferencing for formal meetings: “Mike let this one fly as we talked about collaboration and how his company, with people scattered around the country, use videoconferencing: “We never use it at a meeting where there’s an agenda.” Stop. Rewind. […]
According to Stuff, New Zealand soldiers in Afghanistan towed a disabled US helicopter to safety: “The US army Apache helicopter had to land in an exposed position in Bamyan last month after its engines were damaged by debris. The NZ Provincial Reconstruction Team manufactured a tow bar and […]
Betrand eloquently discussed the problem with driving adoption, AND gives a better way to think about it: “Adopt what ? New tools, new practices. One by one ? Both at the same time ? That’s the chicken and egg situation and, at the end, this doesn’t matter here. […]
Gia shares some of the findings from IBM about how the inclusion of links to contributions in internal systems changed the dynamics in the use of expertise profiles: “Seekers are always searching for an expert in something. They love extensive profiling systems, because it enables them to locate […]
In a blog post last July, Joe Schueller from Cisco wrote about the role of culture in Enterprise 2.0, but more importantly about three keys to gaining broad adoption of collaboration tools in the organization: “However, to drive real value out of a collaboration platform, you need broad […]
I’m too busy to collaborate View more presentations from Stuart McIntyre Joseph talked about user engagement and user adoption at last week’s Social Connections 1 event in London. It’s worth a look through …
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