Comments on: Enterprise 2.0 … More Hierarchy or Less Hierarchy ? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jo http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162257 Jo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:10:17 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162257 Okeydoke, I had noticed you were in Montreal a lot. I don't know why I thought you were British. I'll move you to the right place!! Okeydoke, I had noticed you were in Montreal a lot. I don’t know why I thought you were British. I’ll move you to the right place!!

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162256 Jon Husband Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:57:30 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162256 I am based in Vancouver, BC (Canada) with a second base in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). I work mainly in North America and western Europe, and get to the UK 2 or 3 times per year. I am based in Vancouver, BC (Canada) with a second base in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). I work mainly in North America and western Europe, and get to the UK 2 or 3 times per year.

]]> By: Jo http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162255 Jo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:45:27 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162255 Oh . . I didn't make the connection immediately. Yes, I subscribe to Wirearchy. Where are you based exactly? I have you on my "UK" page. That's page where you go daily to see if anything has changed! Should you be on that the page or my Further page! Oh . . I didn’t make the connection immediately. Yes, I subscribe to Wirearchy.

Where are you based exactly? I have you on my “UK” page. That’s page where you go daily to see if anything has changed! Should you be on that the page or my Further page!

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162251 Jon Husband Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:25:00 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162251 Oh, OK .. you mean thank dog. Sure, of course we swear up here ;-) <i>"What are you working out other than the blog?"</i> Are you asking this of the blog FASTForward, or of me ? I can't really speak for the FASTForward blog other than to suggest that it is an open enquiry into the changes coming to the enterprise knowledge work field .. beyond that, ask Hylton Jolliffe or Francois Gossieaux. For my part, I am working to give people more awareness of what I mean by the concept / principle of "wirearchy", which to my mind implies a holistic perspective regarding major change that includes action for the common good (including the purpose and action inside enterprises), transparency, real and substantive organizational change, eOD, new management principles and practices, etc. On a more mundane level, I speak at conferences about this kind of stuff, am working on several fronts in a consulting mode with media arts and community development initiatives, am carrying out trends research for several clients, and recently published a book titled "Making Knowledge Work - the Arrival of Web 2.0". Etc. Oh, OK .. you mean thank dog. Sure, of course we swear up here ;-)

“What are you working out other than the blog?”

Are you asking this of the blog FASTForward, or of me ? I can’t really speak for the FASTForward blog other than to suggest that it is an open enquiry into the changes coming to the enterprise knowledge work field .. beyond that, ask Hylton Jolliffe or Francois Gossieaux.

For my part, I am working to give people more awareness of what I mean by the concept / principle of “wirearchy”, which to my mind implies a holistic perspective regarding major change that includes action for the common good (including the purpose and action inside enterprises), transparency, real and substantive organizational change, eOD, new management principles and practices, etc.

On a more mundane level, I speak at conferences about this kind of stuff, am working on several fronts in a consulting mode with media arts and community development initiatives, am carrying out trends research for several clients, and recently published a book titled “Making Knowledge Work – the Arrival of Web 2.0″.

Etc.

]]> By: Jo http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162250 Jo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:13:27 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162250 A touch of blasphemy. Didn't want to be too blatant. Perhaps better not to use the expression at all. You don't say TGIF your side? A touch of blasphemy. Didn’t want to be too blatant. Perhaps better not to use the expression at all. You don’t say TGIF your side?

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162248 Jon Husband Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:49:43 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162248 What does TG mean ? What does TG mean ?

]]> By: Jo http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162247 Jo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:46:32 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162247 TG. I had an unspoken expectation that the world would get predictable. I am delighted to have come up over a horizon, blinked, and found a whole new world. Whatever the next few years will be, they will not be boring. What are you working out other than the blog? TG. I had an unspoken expectation that the world would get predictable. I am delighted to have come up over a horizon, blinked, and found a whole new world.

Whatever the next few years will be, they will not be boring.

What are you working out other than the blog?

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162246 Jon Husband Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:06:28 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162246 <i>I think we are on a cusp as interesting as the introduction of electricity, phone and air travel.</i> I agree ... it (the cusp) is there to be grasped. I think we are on a cusp as interesting as the introduction of electricity, phone and air travel.

I agree … it (the cusp) is there to be grasped.

]]> By: Jo http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162236 Jo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:27:57 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162236 I am just about to post on job redesign as an opportunity in the recession. We have known how to redesign jobs for 30 years and yet we haven't done it. I think three factors will tip the balance this time: a) Social media gives us the IT tools and a generation who assumed that their work will be as well designed as their play. They have the "numbers" too. b) People are seriously fed up with "big business". c) The rise of India and China means we have to wake up. GupShup has 3x the traffic of Twitter and doesn't fail. I think we are on a cusp as interesting as the introduction of electricity, phone and air travel. I am just about to post on job redesign as an opportunity in the recession.

We have known how to redesign jobs for 30 years and yet we haven’t done it. I think three factors will tip the balance this time:

a) Social media gives us the IT tools and a generation who assumed that their work will be as well designed as their play. They have the “numbers” too.

b) People are seriously fed up with “big business”.

c) The rise of India and China means we have to wake up. GupShup has 3x the traffic of Twitter and doesn’t fail.

I think we are on a cusp as interesting as the introduction of electricity, phone and air travel.

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/06/23/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-162194 Jon Husband Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:32:14 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/04/18/enterprise-20-more-hierarchy-or-less-hierarchy/#comment-162194 Yeah ... and increasingly I am of the opinion that save for the tools and services of 2.0 fame, we've been here before. Remember concepts like skunkworks, managing by walking around, turning the org chart upside down, listening to customers and employees, orbiting the giant hairball, etc. ? We've known for a long time that loosening up structure, not getting into measurement mania, etc. are good for innovation and responsiveness ... unfortunately, all too often the response to ambiguity, uncertainty and rapid continuous change is to try to control more. Of two things I am certain - the Web and social software are not going away, and the next five to ten years will be very interesting and revelatory. Yeah … and increasingly I am of the opinion that save for the tools and services of 2.0 fame, we’ve been here before.

Remember concepts like skunkworks, managing by walking around, turning the org chart upside down, listening to customers and employees, orbiting the giant hairball, etc. ?

We’ve known for a long time that loosening up structure, not getting into measurement mania, etc. are good for innovation and responsiveness … unfortunately, all too often the response to ambiguity, uncertainty and rapid continuous change is to try to control more.

Of two things I am certain – the Web and social software are not going away, and the next five to ten years will be very interesting and revelatory.

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