Dow Jones and Enterprise 2.0
November 30th, 2007by Jeremy Thomas
I’ve just come back from an interesting Enterprise 2.0 conference hosted by Dow Jones in Melbourne, Australia. Dow Jones has a product called Factiva, which they’ve recently relaunched as “Factiva 2.0″. The goal of the conference was to give an overview of Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0, then dive into Factiva. I wanted to share some great quotes from Greg Merkle (he’s also a guitarist), Vice President and Creative Director of Dow Jones, on the topic of Enterprise 2.0:
The corporate intranet is where content goes to die.
Workers have adapted their habits to work the way systems work, instead of systems adapting to work the way workers work.
Collective Intelligence - No one knows everything. Everyone knows something.
I wouldn’t have picked Dow Jones as being innovative in this space, but they seem to have a lot of great ideas.
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November 30th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
It’s really exciting when you find a large company who has applied Enterprise 2.0 concepts to their business. I always have this reaction.
I recently told a few of my colleagues that we don’t give our clients enough credit. When we expose them to this awesome technology– they will get excited about it and surprise us with ways they can make dramatic changes happen. As consultants, we’re too hard on ourselves that we feel we need to always have all the answers.
Enterprise 2.0 provides the best platform for co-creation of brilliant ideas. Forgive me, I’m still a little high on our announcement today.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
What I saw from the illustrations of what Dow Jones was doing was a disintermediation of all consulting/service-only models. These will be subsumed by the direct brokering models from the likes of Microsoft, Dow Jones, etc.