
Race Against the Machine
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Sloan School of Management have written an interesting book for our times — our economic times — with an appealing metaphor that any technologist will appreciate. Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming […]

Enterprise 2.0: Seeing from the Back Forward
Okay, before I begin, a confession. I just spent 3 days at the Enterprise 2.0 2011 confab in Boston – and didn’t attend a single event that I didn’t do. But I have several excuses and I think that I’m still qualified to write what I’m about write. First, I participated in 4 events, the […]

Time For Enterprise 2.0 To Get Enterprisey
The funny thing about “Enterprise 2.0”, or social business software, is that it’s not very enterprisey: yes, it is deployed in enterprises, but it often doesn’t deal with the core business of an enterprise. You hear great stories about social software being used to strengthen weak ties through internal social networking, or fostering social production […]

Enterprise 2.0: The Next Narrative
Enterprise 2.0 was launched in the spring of 2006 as a result of Andrew McAfee’s case study interviews in 2005 on Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), an investment bank in London. The story unfolded after he and his team studied the work of J.P. Rangaswami, who was then Global CIO of the bank. It’s sometimes surprising to me […]

A review of Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0 book and a bit of related Gartner research.
Cross posted from my Gartner blog.
I received a review copy of Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0 just before Christmas, so I added it to my book pile as an extra Christmas present. Thank you Andrew and the publisher, HBS.
In reviewing books, I have a simple test. Would I spend my own money on a copy? […]

Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier
Large organizations continue to embrace Enterprise 2.0 as a viable addition to their business process toolbox, however resistance to change remains a challenge.

A Conversation with Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee is known as the father of Enterprise 2.0. In 2006 he wrote the paper “Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration,” which for many of us gave a single point of reference for the work being done in enterprise social software and “Office 2.0” until then. Since then Enterprise 2.0 has started to come of age, and I thought the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco would be a perfect opportunity to sit down and discuss the past and future of collaboration, social software and business strategy.