Comments on: Can an organization not be ‘ready’ for Enterprise 2.0? http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2010/01/10/can-an-organization-not-be-ready-for-enterprise-2-0/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:28:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joerg Jelden http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2010/01/10/can-an-organization-not-be-ready-for-enterprise-2-0/comment-page-2/#comment-266897 Joerg Jelden Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:45:38 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=4286#comment-266897 Dear Joe Thank you for this great post. I have enjoyed reading it very much, but there is one thing I would like to remark. You start with raising the question "Can an organization be ready for Enterprise 2.0?" For me this question does not fit to an enterprise 2.0 culture. It follows a top-down way of thinking. Isn´t the right question to ask when an organization is ready? I would like to propose that it is a process of making an organization ready for Enterprise 2.0. That organizations choose an emergent way of deciding your proposed questions. That they gather first experiences on small cases and projects and build on these. If most organizations would start asking a question like „Do we really want to have a two-way conversation with our employees, partners and suppliers?“ right in the beginning, then 90 percent would simply answer with no. This is no good: neither for the organizations themselves, nor for the economy at all. I just finished „The 10 stages of Social Media Business Integration“ by Brian Solis and The Builder´s Manifesto by Umair Haque. Both are great pieces. These 10 stages are build on the idea of an emerging integration of social media into an organization and Haque´s analysis of 21st century leadership adds the right leadership model. Thanks Dear Joe
Thank you for this great post. I have enjoyed reading it very much, but there is one thing I would like to remark. You start with raising the question “Can an organization be ready for Enterprise 2.0?” For me this question does not fit to an enterprise 2.0 culture. It follows a top-down way of thinking. Isn´t the right question to ask when an organization is ready? I would like to propose that it is a process of making an organization ready for Enterprise 2.0. That organizations choose an emergent way of deciding your proposed questions. That they gather first experiences on small cases and projects and build on these. If most organizations would start asking a question like „Do we really want to have a two-way conversation with our employees, partners and suppliers?“ right in the beginning, then 90 percent would simply answer with no. This is no good: neither for the organizations themselves, nor for the economy at all. I just finished „The 10 stages of Social Media Business Integration“ by Brian Solis and The Builder´s Manifesto by Umair Haque. Both are great pieces. These 10 stages are build on the idea of an emerging integration of social media into an organization and Haque´s analysis of 21st century leadership adds the right leadership model.
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]]> By: Phil Simon http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2010/01/10/can-an-organization-not-be-ready-for-enterprise-2-0/comment-page-2/#comment-266779 Phil Simon Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:20:27 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=4286#comment-266779 Good post, Joe. I'd argue that most organizations are not ready for just about any technology in lean times. I just saw this again recently as I implemented an "Enterprise 1.0" technology at a hospital. Cultures more tolerant of failure and change are going to have more success on social networking types of endeavors, as others have pointed out. There's no silver bullet in E2.0 that overlooks good management, culture, and other factors endemic to IT success. Good post, Joe. I’d argue that most organizations are not ready for just about any technology in lean times. I just saw this again recently as I implemented an “Enterprise 1.0″ technology at a hospital.

Cultures more tolerant of failure and change are going to have more success on social networking types of endeavors, as others have pointed out. There’s no silver bullet in E2.0 that overlooks good management, culture, and other factors endemic to IT success.

]]> By: Jeff Wilfong http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2010/01/10/can-an-organization-not-be-ready-for-enterprise-2-0/comment-page-1/#comment-266711 Jeff Wilfong Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:58:54 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/?p=4286#comment-266711 Culture is the issue for nearly any size of company but a start-up. If you do not have buy-in, then tools go unused or underutilized. Sometimes, I think that simply employing technology will create some culture (sort of like bottom-up or grassroots organizing approaches). Other times, I see that middle-management is instrumental in winning over their supervisees and initiating changes. Rarely do I see any top-down approaches being successful. Culture is the issue for nearly any size of company but a start-up. If you do not have buy-in, then tools go unused or underutilized. Sometimes, I think that simply employing technology will create some culture (sort of like bottom-up or grassroots organizing approaches). Other times, I see that middle-management is instrumental in winning over their supervisees and initiating changes. Rarely do I see any top-down approaches being successful.

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