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

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.

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.

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

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.

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The November McKinsey Quarterly interviews Andrew McAfee.

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.