2.0 relies on WOA and WOA is part of SOA…so it’s really all part of the package.

….R

The only caveat that I’d add to your numbers is that the people Forrester (or Gartner) tend to have conversations with are those who know about industry research, in general. There are many still out there that (sigh) don’t. But I still believe that your numbers are relevant placeholders, and are clearly representative of ‘forward thinking’. [Although even Forrester has noted that there are things reported by clients as 'intents' but a year later no significant progress has occurred.]

Thanks for sharing no matter how anecdotal. We can all test this against our own evidences/experiences. Respected data points are all useful to consider.

And just for clarification, the vast majority of people at this summit were group or initiative leaders, not the overall leaders (e.g. CIOs). I can suspect (as I’ve lived this many times) that there are many cases where Forrester is hearing one thing from the ‘leaders’ as to vision, but that vision is not deeply part of the culture. Each individual is out forging new grounds — alone. It’s that deep sense of dispair over the ‘aloneness’ that I was picking up at the conference.

We look forward to any similar insights you can update us with over time. We particularly appreciate the pre-report insights!

* Vision: Some IT leaders have it, some don’t. Some IT leaders are highly visionary — you can commonly find this trait among enterprise architects and technology strategists and sometimes in the CIO. You’ll also find it in business architects, who are liaisons between business and IT. Naturally, some IT leaders are more tactical in their thinking. This depends in large part on the type of IT organization they work in: solid utility, trusted supplier, or partner player (for more on this see the March 22, 2006 Forrester report “The Three Archetypes Of IT”). Regardless of how visionary IT leaders are on their own, they are realizing they must work closely with business stakeholders to directly relate Information Workplace strategies (which almost always include Web 2.0 technologies, these days) to the organization’s highest-level objectives and strategic initiatives.

* Information Workplace projects are being funded in forward-thinking organizations. Based on the types of consulting work we are doing with our clients, as well as on survey data we collected in early 2007, Information Workplace projects (which, again, tend to include Web 2.0 technologies within the scope) are getting funded. Typically the project kicks off with an intensive multi-day workshop or a quick-start 100-day strategy development effort. An indicator of projects getting under way is the answer we got to the question, “With regard to an enterprisewide Information Workplace strategy, which of the following best describes your organization?” in the February 2007 US And UK Information Workplace Online Survey. Fourteen percent of respondents said they have a documented Information Workplace strategy and another 44% said they are in the process of developing one.

Indeed, with the suggestions you present, that perspective was tugging at me as I was writing. But I tested that scenario against what I was writing to make sure that nothing would be changed by that scenario.

Perhaps I will more directly address those issues in a future post. I will definitely be thinking about the scenario.

And of course, it isn’t quite as simple or seamless as that (and I query myself as to how scalable these kinds of practice are but that’s something else altogether).