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
Web site security is a very important issue to me. I find it frustrating sometimes dealing with people who operate based more on superstition and urban legends than on solid principles. Part 3 is about an experience I had with a public forum, and their justification for deviating from these guidelines. Continue reading
Web site security is a very important issue to me. I find it frustrating sometimes dealing with the “security experts” in IT who operate based more on superstition and urban legends than on solid principles. Part 2 is in response to my meeting with such a “security expert”.
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Web site security is a very important issue to me. Every application, every information resource, must be built strong enough to put in the Internet, to reliably deliver information to those allowed access, and prevent delivery to those who are not. I find it frustrating sometimes dealing with the “security experts” in IT who operate based more on superstition and urban legends than on solid principles. Part 1 lays down the requirements for a secure web application. Today’s post is prompted by my meeting with such a security expert. Continue reading
ACM is about “smarting up” the organization. When two businesses go into battle, the winner will be the one that can put the “most active brains on the front line”. Continue reading
In working with organizations on their processes, I consistently find that most people are truly surprised to find out how their process are necessarily complicated. Turning the question around, I started wondering “Why is it that we have the feeling that processes should be simple?” This belief is at the center of a key problem people have in process management. It represents a kind of blindness that keeps some from being successful in process management. For now, let me blame it all on Issac Newton. Continue reading
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
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
Deloitte Center for the Edge has released a new white paper on “Social Software for Business Performance” (pdf) which offers some important and relevant advice to those attempting to adopt enterprise social software (ESS) in an organization. The advice applies equally to ACM. Continue reading
It seems like a platitude to say that team effectiveness is intertwined with individual effectiveness, but there is a surprising amount of sentiment contrary to this. I explore this, and explore an exciting new product in this post. Continue reading
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