McAfee, Davenport to Debate Merits of Enterprise 2.0
by Joe McKendrick
Prepare to feel the E2.0 ground rumble, epicenter Boston.
Two of the keenest thinkers on the information technology scene — Harvard’s Andrew McAfee (who provides the intellectual underpinnings to Enterprise 2.0) and Babson College’s Tom Davenport — will go head-to-head in an online videocast from the Web 2.0 conference taking place this week. ZDNet’s Dan Farber will moderate.
The debate/discussion is scheduled for Monday, June 18, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern.
Here is a link to the live videocast.
Davenport, author of Competing on Analytics and a vocal proponent of the power of IT to transform business published an article in Harvard Business Review questioning the value of Enterprise 2.0 to business. He considers E2.0 to be the “next small thing,” rather than “the next big thing,” as Andrew McAfee believes (and as we proclaim with such persistence at this blogsite.)
Davenport questions whether E2.0 technologies and services “will empower employees, decentralize decisions, free up knowledge, and generally make for better places to work,” as McAfee and many of us here at this blogsite believe.
