E2.0 Stagnation
June 23rd, 2008by Jeremy Thomas
We seem to have done a good job about defining the enterprise knowledge management problem and how Enterprise 2.0 wants to fix it. Knowledge is locked in people’s PCs, file shares, is hard to find and is underutilized. Not only that, corporations fail to efficiently tap into their human resources and facilitate the creation of weak ties between employees. I think everybody gets it now.
So why is Andrew McAfee still talking about why email sucks? Haven’t we heard this story time and time again? Why don’t we talk more about how Enterprise 2.0 has helped companies, about how it’s had the dramatic impact that we predicted two years ago? Maybe it’s because it’s not happening, or maybe it’s because the doers are quietly doing and have no time to blog about it.
With that, I’m super stoked about TechCrunch’s new enterprise software-focused blog, TechCrunchIT. TechCrunch has been the defacto leader in all things Web 2.0. Maybe they’ll bring some fresh thinking to the Enterprise 2.0 space.
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:52 am
It is difficult to get your head up and actually start telling people about what you are doing. I’ve been blogging internally for a while but it’s only now that I can actually find time to blog externally about it.
I do get a little fed up sometimes when I see all the justification of E2. As you know, we already know why we want to do it so let’s do it.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:06 am
I wholeheartedly agree!
Of course, as with most difficult problems, it’s always easier to complain than to fix.
The interesting part of any problem is the solution.
When Dean and I started Infovark, we decided, that as we tried to build one, that we would blog about the problem, to see if it resonated.
But if I’m being totally honest, a year later, I’m kind of sick of the problem. It’s pretty obvious, definitely a problem, and now we should get to the interesting bit!
Hopefully we’ll see more solutions and success stories soon.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:19 am
If there’s now a feeling that there’s not so much of a need anymore to look at the justification or the barriers, that could be a good sign. Maybe things have moved on, the door is open and it just needs a gentle push. I hope so but I still think there’s a long way to go, either with culture change, habit change, or both.