Comments on: Going hands on to get your arms around Enterprise 2.0 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jon Husband http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/comment-page-1/#comment-25772 Jon Husband Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:08:13 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/#comment-25772 Hi, Paula. In the context of knowledge work and the way(s) people carry it out in the ncreasingly informatted and perosnalized knowledge workplace, I am afraid I don't quite understand the point you are making. I may be interepreting either loosely or incorrectly here, but I am not sure the long tail applies to the workplace per se .. and it is a "mass" but from the other direction if you will. Jim .. yours is an important point, and I think has real implications for some of the core assumptions about the role and tasks of middle and senior management. Hi, Paula. In the context of knowledge work and the way(s) people carry it out in the ncreasingly informatted and perosnalized knowledge workplace, I am afraid I don’t quite understand the point you are making.

I may be interepreting either loosely or incorrectly here, but I am not sure the long tail applies to the workplace per se .. and it is a “mass” but from the other direction if you will.

Jim .. yours is an important point, and I think has real implications for some of the core assumptions about the role and tasks of middle and senior management.

]]> By: Jim McGee http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/comment-page-1/#comment-25765 Jim McGee Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:39:16 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/#comment-25765 Underneath these observations is another one, I think, about a shift in the locus of control and responsibility from the organization to the individual. This is threatening to those who currently exercise control in organizations and I think it is also threatening to many who have chosen to give up control in organizations for a sense of security. Underneath these observations is another one, I think, about a shift in the locus of control and responsibility from the organization to the individual. This is threatening to those who currently exercise control in organizations and I think it is also threatening to many who have chosen to give up control in organizations for a sense of security.

]]> By: Paula Thornton http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/comment-page-1/#comment-25385 Paula Thornton Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:42:01 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/#comment-25385 Ironic that Joseph Pine, who now focuses on "experiences" was responsible for the concepts of "mass customization". Here's the flaw: it's still a 'push' not a 'draw'. Indeed, the difference between the 'pull' that so many want to speak of, is that it is 'individual'. "Draw" is a collective connectedness from whence emergence is fostered. The mass (size) of the sector for which the customization matters is not relevant -- the long tail is not about the masses. Ironic that Joseph Pine, who now focuses on “experiences” was responsible for the concepts of “mass customization”. Here’s the flaw: it’s still a ‘push’ not a ‘draw’. Indeed, the difference between the ‘pull’ that so many want to speak of, is that it is ‘individual’. “Draw” is a collective connectedness from whence emergence is fostered. The mass (size) of the sector for which the customization matters is not relevant — the long tail is not about the masses.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/comment-page-1/#comment-25253 Jon Husband Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:19:21 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/07/19/going-hands-on-to-get-your-arms-around-enterprise-20/#comment-25253 I belive, and have domne so for quite a while, that we collectively are on our way to the "mass customization of work", notably in areas of knowledge work that are not constrained by the demands of a highly structured integrated enterprise system Individual learning styles, competency models, blends of individual and team objectives, relative degrees of empowerment, work thatinvolves a web of customers, suppliers and colleagues where collaboration and adaptation to each other are vital ... all lend themselves to the personalization aspects inherent in "mass customization" ... and I think that blogs and blog-like derivatives are an important element of this trend (the one I see ... I may be the only one that sees that, and I may very well be wrong, but my interpretation is that McAfee may be saying something similar). I belive, and have domne so for quite a while, that we collectively are on our way to the “mass customization of work”, notably in areas of knowledge work that are not constrained by the demands of a highly structured integrated enterprise system

Individual learning styles, competency models, blends of individual and team objectives, relative degrees of empowerment, work thatinvolves a web of customers, suppliers and colleagues where collaboration and adaptation to each other are vital … all lend themselves to the personalization aspects inherent in “mass customization” … and I think that blogs and blog-like derivatives are an important element of this trend (the one I see … I may be the only one that sees that, and I may very well be wrong, but my interpretation is that McAfee may be saying something similar).

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