[Cross posted at FASTforward]
Clay Shirky’s got a new talk and he’s taking it on the road. It’s stimulating a good bit of thoughtful discussion around the web. Here’s a video version of his talk:
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Shirky has [...]
Ed Felten at Freedom to Tinker has some interesting points to add to Bruce Schneier’s piece on “Security Mindset” that I posted about yesterday. Felten focuses on the notion of “harmless failures.” It provides still more reason to approach all systems design problems with an eye firmly fixed on the social context in which your [...]
Bruce Schneier is high on my list of smart people to pay attention to. His blog, Schneier on Security, always provides useful insights into the interplay between technology and people. Yesterday, he offered an interesting observation about what he labels “the security mindset.”
Schneier on Security: The Security Mindset.
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Security requires a particular mindset. Security professionals — [...]
The theme at this year’s FASTForward conference is the “user revolution.” Don Tapscott gave a nod to Time Magazine’s selection of “You” as the person of the year in 2006 as part of his keynote Monday evening. References to Facebook, Flickr, and Wikipedia have been rampant throughout the general sessions and in hallway conversations. The [...]
Andrew McAfee’s Sloan Management article defining Enterprise 2.0 is available for download, so I took the opportunity to reread it, after a recent chat over coffee with Jordan Frank of Traction Software.
Enterprise 2.0 is Now Free
The article, at least. MIT Sloan Management Review, with support from IBM, is making a set of ‘classic’ (thanks!) [...]
James Robertson pointed to this last month. It is one of several excellent articles in an issue of the IBM Systems Journal on the topic of business collaboration. While the writing is a tad dry, the thinking and the research is nicely grounded in some real data for a change.
Beyond predictable workflows: enhancing productivity [...]
Insightful advice from Euan. I’m not sure, however, that most organizations can avoid the temptation to meddle and manage this instead. That will slow adoption down in most cases.
The 100% guaranteed easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0?
DO NOTHING
And then your bright, thoughtful and energetic staff will do it for you. Trouble is they will [...]
[cross posted at FastForward blog]
I was sitting next to James Robertson yesterday as Ray Lane delivered his opening keynote address at FastForward07. At one point James leaned over to me and joked that I was beginning to twitch. What was bothering me was that Ray was perpetuating the lazy and glib thinking of Nick Carr’s infamous [...]
Thanks to Jon Husband for pointing this one out. I’ve been a fan of Evelyn Rodriguez’s Crossroad Dispatches for a long while. Her writing challenges me to take risks that I don’t always rise to, but always appreciate.
Business Problems and Root Causes
A delicious discovery whilst browsing this morning …
From Evelyn Rodriguez’ bio on her [...]
[cross posted at FastForward blog]
We’ve been challenged to offer tips for gaining adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies by James Dellow and James Robertson. Of the responses so far, I confess that I am most aligned with Euan Semple’s, who suggests that perhaps the call for adoption advice is premature. Here are some thoughts on adopting [...]
