Why not get rid of management entirely? That was the thesis of Doug Kirkpatrick’s talk at the Building Business Capability conference this week about the Morning Star Company, a company which has tried the radical approach of being entirely flat, and having no managers are all. Far from failing, they have become the largest company in their domain (tomato processing). In Dec 2011, Harvard Business Review called them the world’s most creatively managed company. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Enterprise 2.0
Introducing the Web T-Link
The concept is simple: you want to make a web reference (HTML link) to an other web resource, but you don’t want that link to go bad. This requires a web link, with just a little bit of smarts on the server, and so I call that a T-Link and it is a key capability for a collaboration system. Continue reading
John Hagel on Social Technology Adoption
John Hagel III co-author of the book “The Power of Pull” was invited on stage for a discussion with Dr. Pehong Chen, CEO of BroadVision about how companies are (or are not) adopting of social technologies at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara yesterday. I am a big fan of him and his latest book, so I took notes on how he sees companies resolving these difficulties. Continue reading
Bring Your Own ACM to Work
Yesterday’s post was about workers will use personal clouds to organize their information, their personal devices, for both home and work life. This is a general trend I am seeing toward personal services in the Internet that represent a given person. Let me propose an even more radical idea, one of managing your projects out of such a personal cloud. Continue reading
Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think
Just a quick post about an excellent article: “Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0” by Deb Lavoy arguing that these are not technological trends, but rather cultural trends. Continue reading
Self-Organizing Business Networks
As the Social Business meme becomes more mainstream, people are starting to ask “What is the real connection with ‘Social’ after all?” and “Isn’t the connection to ‘Social’ a bit overblown?” After all, we really are not talking about literally placing Facebook (as the canonical example) inside a business. Why, then, call it social? Continue reading
Culture Trumps Technology
Peter Schooff asked another excellent question today: “Does Strategy always Trump Technology” when it comes to deploying and using a content management system / Enterprise 2.0 system? This is a very good point, but it should be “culture,” not strategy, that does the trumping. Continue reading
Social Business Forum in Milan (2011)
Who wants to go to Italy in June? There is a great opportunity to attend the Social Business Forum 2011 which is being held June 8 in Milan, Italy, where a number of thought leaders will be convening to discuss the latest in social business trends. Continue reading
Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0
Andrew McAfee spoke today at the IDC Directions 11 event in San Jose as the closing keynote. It is the first time I have seen him speak live, and came away quite impressed. Below are my notes on his talk titled “The State of an Art.” Continue reading