Comments on: Accenture debuts Facebook-like global employee network http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/17/accenture-debuts-facebook-like-global-employee-network/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anon Y. Mous http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/17/accenture-debuts-facebook-like-global-employee-network/comment-page-1/#comment-31602 Anon Y. Mous Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:54:08 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/17/accenture-debuts-facebook-like-global-employee-network/#comment-31602 So when will Facebook be suing Accenture? Even if a case isn't waged, isn't Accenture just an "also-ran" or "wannabe"? Where's the innovation here? This is just tired, stale toast. We expect more from a CTO. So when will Facebook be suing Accenture? Even if a case isn’t waged, isn’t Accenture just an “also-ran” or “wannabe”? Where’s the innovation here? This is just tired, stale toast. We expect more from a CTO.

]]> By: Anuj http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/17/accenture-debuts-facebook-like-global-employee-network/comment-page-1/#comment-31274 Anuj Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:12:34 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/17/accenture-debuts-facebook-like-global-employee-network/#comment-31274 We at mangospring (www.mangospring.com) a young startup actively use wiki and blogs for intranet and knowledge management. Given our team size of 30 a wordpress blog and google apps based gtalk id ensures there is ample of social networking happening already. Plus we have groups on orkut and facebook for our company where all of us can join. But for large organizations like accenture with spread offices and thousands of employees social networks can definitely make the whole thing more personal. I think the idea definitely holds merit and we have been looking at an enterprise version of the social service we have been building. Infact i disagree that collaborative and social will be separate. IF built right they shall work together and lead to much better knowledge management. We at mangospring (www.mangospring.com) a young startup actively use wiki and blogs for intranet and knowledge management.

Given our team size of 30 a wordpress blog and google apps based gtalk id ensures there is ample of social networking happening already. Plus we have groups on orkut and facebook for our company where all of us can join.

But for large organizations like accenture with spread offices and thousands of employees social networks can definitely make the whole thing more personal.

I think the idea definitely holds merit and we have been looking at an enterprise version of the social service we have been building. Infact i disagree that collaborative and social will be separate. IF built right they shall work together and lead to much better knowledge management.

]]> By: vogon http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/17/accenture-debuts-facebook-like-global-employee-network/comment-page-1/#comment-6538 vogon Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:43:15 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/17/accenture-debuts-facebook-like-global-employee-network/#comment-6538 Accenture culture is strongly based on social networking:everyone there has to sell himself to his next boss for the next project. I think tagging should be of most value for their knowledge base (I remember how difficult was finding relevant material back in 2003, when I left) and, since they mostly work on projects, wiki adoption should be more stressed, for the company's sake and to uphold their core values. As prof. McAfee says on Enterprise 2.0 "managers would have to be somewhat technically literate, but more importantly they’d have to really believe the corporate mission statement boilerplate that "people are our most important asset… we strive to encourage collaboration and participation… we value the contributions of all our team members… we pride ourselves on our healthy and collegial work environment… etc."". Wikis give credit to each stakeholder, remember: verba volant, scripta manent. ;-) vogon Accenture culture is strongly based on social networking:everyone there has to sell himself to his next boss for the next project.
I think tagging should be of most value for their knowledge base (I remember how difficult was finding relevant material back in 2003, when I left) and, since they mostly work on projects, wiki adoption should be more stressed, for the company’s sake and to uphold their core values.
As prof. McAfee says on Enterprise 2.0 “managers would have to be somewhat technically literate, but more importantly they’d have to really believe the corporate mission statement boilerplate that “people are our most important asset… we strive to encourage collaboration and participation… we value the contributions of all our team members… we pride ourselves on our healthy and collegial work environment… etc.”".
Wikis give credit to each stakeholder, remember: verba volant, scripta manent.

;-) vogon

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