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Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch

markf — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:26:51 GMT

AUGUST 2010 • Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika

Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior executives need to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging new environment. Full Article - McKInsey Quarterly

Jivesoftware Receives It's Most Signficant Funding Round

markf — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:24:54 GMT

Jivesoftware Receives It's Most Signficant Funding Round when two of the titans of Sand Hill Road, Sequoia Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers team up on Jive’s third funding round

Enterprise 2.0 Goes Mainstream As Collaboration Tools Mature - WSJ

markf — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:35:27 GMT

Venture Capital Dispatch

An inside look from VentureWire at high-tech start-ups and their investors - Wall Street Journal

This year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference offers further evidence that large companies are getting serious about adopting the kinds of online collaboration tools that many of their employees use routinely in their personal lives.... Full Article.

Jive's New Features and Management: Finally a Serious Enterprise 2.0 Play

markf — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:12:42 GMT

Jive Software releases Version 4.5 - Techcrunch Overview

How John Chambers Learned to Collaborate at Cisco

markf — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:24:34 GMT

In 2001, as the dot.com boom turned to bust, CEO John Chambers of Cisco saw a massive $460 billion of Cisco's overall stock market value evaporate before his eyes. Game over? Not really. At that moment, Chambers started a reinvention of the company — from a "cowboy" mentality where people worked in silos to a collaborative approach. Full article.

Collaboration: An Opportunity for Lasting Change

markf — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:07:03 GMT

A What Matters article from McKinsey and Co discusses how collaboration can deliver An opportunity for Lasting Change

Social CRM: Ground Zero for Enterprise 2.0 in 2010

markf — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:41:54 GMT

Dion Hinchcliffe in a recent article in ZDNet discusses - What if customers were often the best people to help other customers? That’s the basic premise of an emerging class of enterprise software usually referred to these days as “Social CRM” and which I covered in some detail late last year.

Full article - Social CRM

Engage - Getting on with Government 2.0

markf — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:32:51 GMT

Recently the Australian Government through it's Government 2.0 Task Force released a document titled " Engage - Getting on with Government" which discusses ways to help build a public service that is smarter, more responsive, more strategic and personally rewarding.

5 Predictions For Government IT In 2010

markf — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:07:38 GMT

By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek .

Government agencies will continue to struggle with cybersecurity, while making strides in transparency and cloud computing. There will also be new pushes for accountability and IT procurement reform.

Full Article

http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=JRMNOWU4SNZJHQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN

Twenty Companies to Watch in 2010

markf — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:44:01 GMT

A recent article by CIO Magazine places Jive Software in it's "20 companies to watch in 2010"

Using Technology to Improve Workforce Collaboration

markf — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:34:01 GMT

By James Manyika, Kara Sprague and Lareina Yee - McKinsey&Company

Knowledge workers fuel innovation and growth, yet the nature of knowledge work remains poorly understood—as do the ways to improve its effectiveness. The heart of what knowledge workers do on the job is collaborate, which in the broadest terms means they interact to solve problems, serve customers, engage with partners, and nurture new ideas.

Full Article

Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones (Mobiles)

markf — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:16:45 GMT

Businesses Try to Shift Online Communities, Consumer Forums to Places Tailored for Wireless Users

by Roger Cheng - WSJ

How Web 2.0 is changing the way we work: An interview with MIT’s Andrew McAfee

markf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:18:14 GMT

The November McKinsey Quarterly interviews Andrew McAfee.

New Study: How Communication Drives Performance

markf — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:38:05 GMT

Harvard Business Publishing's John Baldoni provides an insight into a communications survey by Watson Wyatt -

According to Watson Wyatt's newest communication survey for 2009/2010, companies that are effective communicators "have the courage to talk about what employees want to hear," "redefine the employment deal based on changing business conditions," and have "the discipline to plan effectively and measure their progress effectively."

The study also shows that companies that communicate effectively had a 47% higher return to shareholders over a five-year period (mid-2004 to mid-2009).- The full article.

Enterprise 2.0 - Andrew McAfee

markf — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:38:45 GMT

Noted scholar, blogger and Twitterer Andrew MCafee has just released his first book "Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges" .

A recent interview provides a very good insight into the contents and direction of this much anticipated book.