Euan Semple

Interesting post about Enterprise 2.0 from a former KMWorld speaker, Euan Semple. His secret to success:  “Focus instead on the things that are desperately trying to happen but aren’t and the people who are desperately trying to connect but can’t. Do things that make the impossible possible and your success rate will soar.”

Andrew McAfee

Hugh McKellar of KMWorld magazine recently interviewed KMWorld 2009’s keynote speaker, Andrew McAfee.   They talk about Enterprise 2.0 — a “fundamental shift in the way that organizations can share knowledge and gain collective intelligence and ultimately increase the bottom line.”

Have a look at the article, join us in San Jose on November 17th for McAfee’s keynote at KMWorld 2009, and check out McAfee’s forthcoming new book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges. Here’s what you’ll find in the book according to the author:

I start with four case studies about organizations facing challenges or missed opportunities, and hopefully those big challenges or missed opportunities will be pretty familiar to the reader. Then, I get into Web 2.0 and the significant improvement in technologies available for collaboration. I show how, in each of the four cases, the organization grabbed some portion of that toolkit and made it work, helped address the challenge they faced.

I present a framework for thinking through what Enterprise 2.0 can do for you and how to think about it. At the end, I present some guidance about deployment–once you’ve made your decision, what you need to do to ensure a successful rollout. The book concludes by looking into the future a little bit and making some hopefully grounded predictions about where all this is headed.

You can also view Andrew speaking about Enterprirse 2.0 here.

The KnowledgeWorks Foundation has set created “a tool, [2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning] for thinking about, preparing for, and shaping the future. It outlines key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade.”  With the theme of KMWorld 2009, Resetting the Enterprise: Focusing on People, Talent & Knowledge,  and many sessions around Enterprise 2.o, you make want to check out one of the “drivers of change” sections — Amplified Organization/s: Extended human capacity remakes the organization.  There is also a section on Open Leadership & Socialability: A Trend of the Amplified Organization which includes a video of Chuck House, executive Director, Media X, Stanford University’s membership research program on media and technology, who talks about the new skills needed for the 21st century jobs.

The 2020 Forecast webiste contains four types of info:

* drivers of change — major forces of transformation that will shape our efforts to remake learning

*trends — distinct directions of change that point to new concepts or new patterns of behavior that will shape the future of learning

* signals — examples, or early indicators, of the changes described by the trends and the drivers of change. By providing analogies, data, and explicit stories, signals help make the future seem more concrete.

*learning agents — new roles and functions that might emerge in the future ecosystem of learning

Published by HBS in the fall & you can hear McAfee speak at KMW09.

We are very excited about Andrew McAfee opening KMWorld 2009 and talking about resetting the enterprise with new enterprise 2.0  collaborative tools.  Andrew coined the phrase “enterprise 2.0″ in 2006 in a Sloan Management Review article.  This fall his book on Enterprise 2.0 will be published by Harvard Business School Press.   Keep the conference dates, November 17-19 in your calendar and join us for interesting discussions!  And until you meet him in person at KMWorld 2009,  you can follow Andrew on Twitter, Facebook, and his blog.

Enterprise 2.0, or web 2.0 technology for the enterprise, is a major theme of KMWorld 2009, Nov 17-19.  It is interesting how lots of enterprises are just now beginning to test the waters.  Jet Blue Airways has rolled out a portal to share best practices for training and hopes that this pilot’s success with allow for enterprise-wide adoption of internal wikis and blogs.  CORT Business Services has adopted wikis and blogs to help foster internal collaboration across different departments to manage the workflow for its e-commerce site, which rents out home and office furniture and helps companies relocate employees to new locations.  Got more examples?  Please share them.

Bringing the Twitter-like Experience to the Enterprise, is a recent article about “Lisa Bertero Palmer, senior vice president of Davies, a public affairs firm, [who]  is in the process of rolling out an internal, Twitter-like experience for approximately 50 employees in geographically dispersed locations throughtout the country.”  She says, “it as a way to vastly increase efficiency while cutting down on e-mail….People will share pieces of knowledge or key actions they’ve taken throughout the day.”  The article talks about suppliers of this type enterprise 2.0 platform and analyst reaction.

Just read a post by web strategist, Len Devanna, where he talks about the EMC intranet.  He discusses how it went from an HR-driven project to a web team-driven success able to retire 32 home grown intranet sites in the 37,000 person organization.  His tips:  good design, infrastructure, enable people to do it themselves.  Read more and hopefully hear him speak at KMWorld 2009, Nov 17-19, San Jose.  And if you have a great intranet story from your organization, please consider sending us a proposal to speak at KMWorld 2009.