MopsosThe -social- network is the companyTime to build an E 2.0 business.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) A new Forrester report predicts that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically. Over the next five years, that expenditure will grow at a compound annual rate of 43% This increase will include more spending on social networking tools, mashups, and RSS, with the end result being a market of $4.6 billion by the year 2013. Social networking tools will come as the first applications So it looks like the time has finally come, five year later than what I...http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000416.html What is social capital- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I was asked today by a colleague of mine to define social capital. This is what I e-mailed back to him: Social capital is the invisible stock of connections between people that makes collaboration possible. It basically measures trust and how people really care for one another. When members of a group know each other very well and share the same values, social capital is high. When they don't and have no shared awareness of the situation facing the group, the same words can mean very different.http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000391.html Making sense of people directories- (Found July 2, 2008 ) It seems that the question of locating experts in a big organization is still at the top of knowledge management agendas, and I keep on hearing about projects to merge the content of several people directories developed over time. I think we should put this into a broader perspective of people databases. For me, there are five different types of people databases used in major organizations: 1- The private Rolodexes, which are essentially vcards on our PDAs, which are used to connect to...http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000394.html French anti-piracy law proposal raises serious concerns on privacy.- (Found July 2, 2008 ) From Cory Doctorow in Boing-Boing about France's new copyright law proposal requiring ISPs to police their clients: For the first time in either Europe or North America, Big Content will be able to offload the tiresome and expensive work of copyright enforcement to ISPs and the commission called for by the law. (...) As a result, the procedure by which French people lose their right to communicate online will be automatic, faceless and instantaneous. The process by which they protest their...http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000395.html Enterprise 2.0, the new name for KM- (Found July 2, 2008 ) from Cyril:in my view, Enterprise 2.0 will become the new all purpose marketing term to replace Knowledge Management. This much is unavoidable, the vendors will see to that.I agree with that although I don't like the idea of a passing fad. The phrase "Enterprise 2.0" is too catchy, and thus will vanish like "Knowledge Management". But before the business world understands that we are merely talking about management in a massively connected world, will there be a need for another catchy phrasehttp://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000396.html God is the details- (Found July 2, 2008 ) As my friend Dominique Turcq said during his introductory speech to Dan Tapscott's talk in Paris two weeks ago:In the networked economy, God is the detailsOne of my colleagues here at PwC gave me a good illustration of this yesterday. He was speaking about a specific online Q&A forum at Cisco. It appears that when someone asks a question on this technical forum, only the first answer is made visible to all the participants. The following answers or comments are only visible to the person who...http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000397.html Social bookmarking as a core knowledge sharing approach for companies- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Yesterday, together with my colleague Ricardo Sueiras of PwC UK, we had a demo of Connectbeam the entreprise social bookmarking appliance. Connectbeam is an enterprise social networking tool using shared bookmarks and tags as a way to connect people. Basically it connects people who use the same content, on the grounds that it is likely that they have similar activities or interests, and will benefit from knowing each other. Connectbeam raises a few IP questions as usual with respect to who...http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000398.html Behind networking- (Found July 2, 2008 ) From the presentation of Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps of Netage at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston last June:Decide to network Use every letter you write Every conversation you have Every meeting you attend To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams Affirm to others the vision of the world you want Network through thought Network through action Network through love Network through the spirit You are the center of the world You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness Affirm.http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000401.html Social Networking: Service or Society- (Found July 2, 2008 ) In Five High-Tech Failures from the New Scientist, Justin Mullins questions the future of Facebook:(...)That looks suspiciously as if Facebook has begun to put the needs of its advertisers before the needs of its users. A dangerous sign and one that users should ignore at their peril. In the same article, other social networking sites like Match or Secondlife are presented as endangered as well. The problem with social networking services is that you do not control a social network, which...http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000406.html Knowledge sharing behaviors- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Last friday, I e-mailed some colleague in my company to ask her for some information. This morning, I got a reply telling me that I should ask another person, and she gave me the name. I find this behavior typical of the industrial age organization, where people define themselves by the tasks they have been assigned to. Whatever falls outside is not to be taken care of. In a post-industrial networked culture, she would have forwarded the message to the right person, and copied me. The...http://www.mopsos.com/blog/archives/000407.html |