Making the ROI Case for Social Collaboration — Enterprise 2.0 Boston
Show me the ROI!! I was in Las Vegas last week at Realcomm, a technology conference for the commercial real estate industry and “Show Me the ROI” was the theme of that conference. Leave it to the real estate industry to cut right to the heart of the matter. They want to see technology deliver [...]
One-photo Guide to Collaboration Software
Here’s the sponsor page from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference event guide: Dion Hinchcliffe mentioned in his presentation this morning that IBM, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft already represent 85% of enterprise social software sales, but there are other strong players. Jive, for example, is one company that keeps popping up on my radar screen lately. I’m [...]
Enterprise 2.0 — Boston — Business Powered by Collaboration
It’s June, so I’m in Boston again for the annual Enterprise 2.0 conference. The conference runs this week Monday – Thursday. I’ve come to four of these conferences now. Each time I get the sense that the organizers are steadily refining how they present the idea of “Enterprise 2.0″ since the term itself really doesn’t mean [...]
We’re So Excited to Learn About Enterprise 2.0 — Part 1
This is the first in a series of posts in which I will attempt to offer some useful answers to some real questions about Enterprise 2.0 (including what it is and what it is not) posed by a company I recently consulted with. In this post I begin with some background and a listing of the questions I was [...]
For Positive Enterprise 2.0 ROI, Build IT/HR Partnership
In a recent post to the Fast Forward Blog, Paula Thornton (@rotkapchen) made the perceptive observation that because IT departments have a horizontal reach through organizations (unlike other departments that are vertical in nature) IT is a logical place for enterprise-wide technology initiatives like Enterprise 2.0 to begin: “IT is one of the few organizations,” [...]


