In the recent past, you would remember I have been putting together a number of different blog posts on various video interviews that John Chambers , CEO of Cisco Systems , has been doing at several events where he has been sharing some further insights on the future of collaboration, knowledge sharing and, specially, Enterprise 2.0 So I thought I would go ahead and share with you folks another interesting video interview I bumped into from another executive at Cisco Systems. or Social Computing within the corporate world and beyond. Check out the YouTube video "

Remember the blog post I put together a few days back highlighting a superb video interview with John Chambers , CEO of Cisco Systems , talking about The Power of Collaborating Innovation ? Once again, it is John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, talking about Teamwork and Collaboration , where he admits to having made a couple of mistakes, learned from them, changed the company’s business strategy to transition from that command and control structure into one much more collaborative and teamwork related and start seeing the benefits right away! Well, I am back again with plenty more!

Corporate social networking is just as essential as any other business process, knowledge sharing or collaborative tool available out there to help improve the productivity of your knowledge workers. Throughout all of that time I have come to the conclusion that without social software becoming available within the corporate environment we wouldn’t been been very much involved any longer with such key and important disciplines as knowledge sharing, nor collaboration. After the wonderful Lotusphere Comes to You 2009 events (in both Madrid & Barcelona) from last week and after taking a couple of days off to enjoy thoroughly both cities, it is time to return back home and, with that, back into my usual and regular blogging activities.

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The session started with the Jive CEO explaining a bit their vision (I still think they’re pushing too hard to try to differentiate), then one of Forrester’s VPs talking about how IT buyers decide based on peer impressions and do a lot of social software use, and backing Jive’s message (seen better Forrester presentations, with a bit of content), then Cisco explaining their unified community platform as a source of undefined participation and engagement, “ingenious solutions” from users and (someday) discussion evolving from problem resoltion to business issues.

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How many times have you heard, or read , various articles or news items , where it is described, with plenty of details, how the management line of the corporate world seems to be the main group of people fearing (Or, at least, being rather weary on) the wider adoption of social software both inside and outside of the firewall by the knowledge workers they manage on a regular basis? That’s the case of this recent video interview where John Chambers , CEO of Cisco Systems , spends a little bit under five minutes sharing some great insights around the topic of

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The industry can identify a "portal market", an "enterprise content management market", and even a "collaboration market". projects are focused on people-centric solutions that promise to deliver "soft" benefits related to community, employee engagement, talent management, learning, collaboration, etc). filled in a critical gap that was long-missing in collaboration and knowledge management circles. A partial list of points-to-ponder: Enterprise 2.0

We’ll do that for our friends on Facebook, but for our co-workers on the terrible ‘knowledge management’ system the company installed? sucks. reply Phil Dewey - April 24th, 2008 at 4:50 pm PDT Wasn’t Cisco supposed to just crush this market? Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise CrunchBase More Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch50 TechCrunch UK TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan About Advertise Archives Company Index Contact Jobs Twitter CrunchBar