The quiet arrival of the SharePoint killer
It was with some interest that I read The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms, Q3 2009 after a link was Tweeted out yesterday. I was reading in reverse order from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, see my Gartner Magic Quadrant; a dark horse closing up the outside fence… My main interest in...
Gartner Magic Quadrant; a dark horse closing up the outside fence…
Just been reading the Gartner Magic Quadrant: Social Software. Jive come out as the clear leaders, closely followed by IBM and Microsoft (the latter featuring better on ability to execute). Other notables – Drupal, Telligent, SocialText and blueKiwi jostle with Google for the Visionary space....
Creating the Social Media Balanced Scorecard, doing the undoable….
Conducting some research I’ve stumbled across an interesting quote (& this blog is but a jotter of my thoughts) that I suspect might be an old chestnut by now. It’s new to me though so here goes. & it comes from Bob Kaplan inventor of the Balanced Scorecard and relates to...
McKinsey: 75% say Integration = E2.0 Success
An interesting report from McKinsey Quarterly How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0: McKinsey Global Survey Results(requires free registration). Enterprise 2.0 benefits most seen in $1Bn + companies and with companies in India and North America claiming the most benefits. Companies that are most...
Burton report on Enterprise Social Networks
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Mike Gotta has produced a very useful Field Research Study for Burton: Social Networking Within the Enterprise (free registration required). There’s a good exec overview at CIO.com: Report: Enterprises Struggle to Adopt Social Networking Internally. Note however, CIO’s somewhat negative angle...
Nielsen's internet footprint – a toe in the water at work?
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The latest report from Nielsen, Social Networking’s New Global Footprint showing the growing normalisation of social media in internet use is of interest for several reasons. Most notable the age demographics refutes the fallacy that this is a novelty for young male users. The broad median of users...
McKinsey's Six of the Best for Web 2.0 Work
Straight in after Deloitte, McKinsey enter the fray with a piece ‘Six ways to make Web 2.0 work‘ that I can only describe as ‘awesome’. And I use that word advisedly and often chuckle when my North American pals use it for what we’d describe in London as ‘jolly...
Harnessing 'Enterprise Social Networking'
Facebook for the Fortune 500
Following on from my post on what we should call social media inside the firewall “What should we call ‘Intranet Social Media’?“ My peers (and Twitter pals) from various enterprises in Europe and the Americas have suggested the following: Collaborative Media,...
Gartner: the CIO and Web 2.0
The beleaguered CIO is being proffered heavy weight advice by the analysts at Gartner. First they weighed in with a Gartner Presents CIO Resolutions for 2009 and now Gartner’s top pundit Mark McDonald has offered his advice to the CIO in an interview with the Wisconsin Technology Network saying that...
