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2010 Predictions: Hutch Carpenter’s List [Enterprise 2.0]
Enterprise 2.0 continued its growth and maturation in 2009. We saw the rise of the Enterprise 2.0 consultancies, including Dachis Group, Altimeter Group and Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0. Andrew McAfee published his book about Enterprise 2.0. We saw the rise of the 2.0 Adoption Council. And based on what can be gleaned from vendors, more enterprises ...
Foursquare + Square = Killer Small Business Social CRM [Convergence Point]
Parker Smith wrote a piece that got me thinking. In Foursquare: Democratizing the Loyalty Program, he posits that Foursquare could be the loyalty program provider to small businesses. I think he’s right. Then I noticed these identical product benefits touted by the companies themselves, Foursquare and Jack Dorsey’s Square: For example, foursquare can tell you ...
ComMetrics Crowdsourcing #FailBucket
ComMetrics is a social media analytics company, a division of CyTRAP Labs GmbH. ComMetrics is well-known in the industry, including its FT ComMetrics Blog Index. The company published a useful piece, Crowd-wisdom fails businesses. The basic premise is that crowds do not innovate. It’s useful, because it contains both truths and misconceptions about the role ...
Open Innovators Outperform the Market by 16.9%
At the Open Innovation Summit last week in Orlando, there were a number of companies there discussing their various initiatives for open innovation. What is open innovation? UC Berkeley professor Henry Chesbrough, perhaps the father of the movement, formulated this definition several years ago: Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and ...
Solving For Impossible: The Four Quadrants of Innovation
I recently wrote up a post, Most Dangerous Innovation Misperception – The Silver Bullet Approach. In it, I discussed the issue of organizations myopically focusing on only disruptive innovations to the exclusion of more incremental or sustaining innovations. In doing more research on the subject, I began thinking about the dynamics that apply when a ...
Twitter Doesn’t Pass Along Google-juice
A regular habit I have is to blog My Ten Favorite Tweets for each week. These are my own tweets, and they mostly contain links to interesting things during the past seven days. One thing I’ve always liked is that I can give “link credit” to the sites that I include in these weekly posts. ...
Enterprise 2.0 Conference Coming to Boston. Here’s a Peek at the Speaker Submissions.
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference Boston Call for Papers has been open for a little over a week now. While the final number of speaker proposals will number in the hundreds (450+ for SF 2009), the initial 29 submissions are a rich vein of current thinking about Enterprise 2.0. As you can see in the tag ...
Twitter’s @Biz Says that Humans Won’t Be Selecting the Suggested Users List
At a conference in Malaysia, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the Suggested Users List (SUL), a boon in followers for anyone on it, will be going away sometime in the future: “That list will be going away,” Stone said at a conference in Malaysia. “In its stead will be something that is more programmatically chosen, ...
Yet Another Versioning Scheme: Social Software 2.0
In talking with people about the Enterprise 2.0 industry, I like to insert yet another versioning number scheme: – Social Software 1.0 – Social Software 2.0 Social Software 1.0 was the era of actually creating these open, collaborative applications. The approach of these tools was groundbreaking. Apps for managing knowledge that are open, persistent, easy ...
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference Models an Advanced Session Proposal System
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference has opened its Call for Papers for the Boston 2010 show. And boy, it’s changing things up. In a good way. The Conference is using Spigit to manage the collection and selection of proposals for sessions at the Boston event. What this does is make the whole process more transparent, shareable ...