At the Enterprise 2.0 conference this morning, three keynote speakers (from industry) used the term “Social Business” instead of Enterprise 2.0. This prompted discussion around whether this is a new trend. Will next year’s conference be called “Social Business Conference?” Continue reading
All this talk of “Social-BPM” there must be something on the other end of the spectrum. Does this mean that “traditional BPM” is anti-social? Well, it can be, and I had that experience this week. Continue reading
I ran across quite an interesting thread on the relationship of communications and collaboration. While industry has held these as separate topic worthy of separate technologies, there is an argument to be made that they should be viewed as a single topic. He describes them as “intertwingled” evoking the legendary Ted Nelson of hypertext and Computer Lib fame. Continue reading
A lot of talk about Social BPM recently but definitions vary widely. My post on “Who is Socializing in Social BPM?” shows that some see it as simply using social network features to accelerate traditional BPM (separation of thinkers and doers) while other (including myself) see the real benefit in how business is transformed by social software. Continue reading
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