Defining Enterprise 2.0

Roger on 08/07/2020

More and more often these days I get asked, “Does [offering X] from [vendor Y] qualify as an Enterprise 2.0 product?” Established vendors of collaboration software are modifying their offerings and repositioning them as social software platforms that have all the features and functions necessary to support the new modes of interacting and getting work done. Smaller companies and startups often say that the established vendors “just don’t get it” and that the new features they’ve incorporated–blogs, wikis, discussion forums, tags, etc.–are just window dressing on products that are still essentially geared for Collaboration 1.0. – Andrew McAfee

And yet it moves! Digital and self-organising teams with a little help from Galileo

Roger on 06/07/2020

This summer, after a lovely 2 week holiday in Tuscany, I returned to Leeds and straight into a classroom full of government senior leaders discussing agile and user-centred design. Their challenges set me thinking once more about the relationship between technology and social relations in the world of work. One well-known story from the Italy of 400 years ago is helping me make sense of it all.