My colleague Susan Scrupski (ITSinsider), who has taught me so much about the blogosphere and social media (and helped me see that I still have much to learn!) just introduced me to a fascinating blog: innovation playgroundpublished by Idris Mootee. All his posts are informative and some quite stimulating, raising important questions and sharing insights about innovation.
The post that caught my attention is How Will Enterprise 2.0 Transform The Workplace. Id lays out his thoughts on the enterprise impact of web 2.0 strategies and tools, and technology adoption issues. He raises the critical point that many efforts to leverage social networking and collaboration platforms lack a clear business purpose. To that end, he sees the big opportunity in workplace transformation. He shows (though never references in the post) a collaboration/social networking “architecture” which helps paint a picture of the numerous and powerful opportunities that the emerging Web 2.0 family of technologies will power in tomorrow’s successful organizations.
A question for me his architecture and perspective raises is, how will the enterprise IT organization provide leadership and infrastructure to power the Enterprise 2.0? How will it be a role model for experimenting and refining how to effectively and creatively deploy these tools, and foster new forms of collaboration? When you have that kind of IT leadership, consistently and relentlessly, you’ve reached Level 3 Business-IT Maturity.
Filed under: IT Management Tagged: | collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, IT capability, Next Generation Enterprise, social networking, Web 2.0
