Comments on: Can Enterprises Come to Grips With ‘Web 2.0 Creep’? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/05/29/can-enterprises-come-to-grips-with-web-20-creep/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/05/29/can-enterprises-come-to-grips-with-web-20-creep/comment-page-1/#comment-18127 Paula Thornton Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:43:02 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/05/29/can-enterprises-come-to-grips-with-web-20-creep/#comment-18127 So if history was to repeat itself, but with an allowance for accelleration, in a few more years we'll be going back into organizations and bringing together the disjunct efforts...like we did with departmental servers in the late '90s and departmental PC collections in the early '90s. Only this time the 'we' may be the Marketing group or some new organizational entity because the 'bringing together' is more about information design and community than about bits and bytes. So if history was to repeat itself, but with an allowance for accelleration, in a few more years we’ll be going back into organizations and bringing together the disjunct efforts…like we did with departmental servers in the late ’90s and departmental PC collections in the early ’90s.

Only this time the ‘we’ may be the Marketing group or some new organizational entity because the ‘bringing together’ is more about information design and community than about bits and bytes.

]]> By: Michael Clarke http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/05/29/can-enterprises-come-to-grips-with-web-20-creep/comment-page-1/#comment-13232 Michael Clarke Tue, 29 May 2007 20:37:06 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/05/29/can-enterprises-come-to-grips-with-web-20-creep/#comment-13232 Very familiar! Makes you realise that IT is still about protecting the machinery from those pesky users for so many CIOs and IT divisions even now. And the best developers can sometimes have difficulty imagining a future where all they do is provide glue and frameworks and help users plug together networks they've developed themselves. We're actively starting to pursue a policy at my workplace of looking for a user deployed Web 2.0 solution to all information requirements wherever necessary - our developers are too expensive to deploy on anything other than stuff we simply have to build ourselves because a) we need to own it or b) the users conclude that what's out there doesn't work for them. Will it work? Yes - because the tech guys will get what every tech guy can only dream of in many corporate environments - users who "get it" and who can't get enough of it. Hopefully :) Very familiar! Makes you realise that IT is still about protecting the machinery from those pesky users for so many CIOs and IT divisions even now. And the best developers can sometimes have difficulty imagining a future where all they do is provide glue and frameworks and help users plug together networks they’ve developed themselves. We’re actively starting to pursue a policy at my workplace of looking for a user deployed Web 2.0 solution to all information requirements wherever necessary – our developers are too expensive to deploy on anything other than stuff we simply have to build ourselves because a) we need to own it or b) the users conclude that what’s out there doesn’t work for them. Will it work? Yes – because the tech guys will get what every tech guy can only dream of in many corporate environments – users who “get it” and who can’t get enough of it. Hopefully :)

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