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There are hints of this in social reporting, technical stewardship, user-centred design processes, community hosting and more. Here’s a bit from ‘The Storyteller’ by Mario Vargas Llosa : “… I was deeply moved by the thought of that being, those beings, in the unhealthy forests of eastern Cusco and Madre de Dios, making long journeys of days or weeks, bringing stories from one group of Machiguengas to another and taking away others, reminding each member of the tribe that the others were alive, that despite the great distances that separated them, they

SAP outlines the advantages of collaborative networks SAP is one of the most enthusiastic proponents of networked business models and sponsors over 40 industry value networks. Below is an excerpt from their recent article Built to Adapt authored by Chakib Bouhdary, Chief Value Officer of Global Field Operations, SAP AG The rise in consumer power, facilitated by easy access to capital and the Internet, is converging with technology to drive rapid commoditization, necessitating the continuous assessment, reinvention, and innovation of business models at greater

Looking at the Tension in the Collaboration Process by Bill Ives September 1, 2008 at 10:09 am · Filed under Enterprise 2.0 Bruce Lewin writes the blog, Four Groups and he recently posted a long piece on The Tension in Collaboration . Does collaboration benefit from a more formal process? He started with these four questions: Should we be putting people first, before technology, in our efforts to collaborate? Can collaboration be encouraged in a replicable and systematic manner (as much as anything concerning people can be repeatable

organizations to intelligently manage and deliver a broad set of corporate information to users over the Web, and features extensive usability upgrades, a new technology foundation, and deeper and more comprehensive integration with the Open Text ECM Suite and the SAP NetWeaver¿ Portal component.? It is more deeply embedded in work processes. Open Text is a relatively old player in the enterprise content management and collaboration space. It recently announced Open Text Web Solutions 10 , the latest release of Open Text?s

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What if Avaya and Cisco shifted slightly from talking only about communication-enabled business processes and discusses the benefits of socially-enabled business processes (via social messaging, social presence, social networking, etc)? Ditto for SAP although the ESME project has roots in the SAP ecosystem. I've posted a lot recently regarding enterprise social messaging ("Twitter for the enterprise"): Twitter in the Workplace

The best community in action that I have seen is the SAP Developer Network (https://www.sdn.sap.com/). The average time to get an answer to a question now is something ridiculous like 15 minutes. You couldnt get that kind of service if you called the SAP help desk directly! SAP also gives out shirts, conference admissions, and other prizes for top contributors. Creating Passionate Users About Search CPU Blog Past favorites Angry/negative people can be bad for your brain Code like a girl Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane When only the glib win, we all lose How to be an expert Creativity on speed Micromanagement: the Zombie Function The hi-res user experience Mediocrity by "areas of improvement" Death by risk-aversion Crash course in learning theory Free Range Posts (open

Samuel is located in the Netherlands and his responsibilities include both the information architecture for structured information in applications such as PLMS and SAP and the unstructured information in places such as email and knowledge management programs. This manager wanted to create an internal version of the Wikipedia to share best practices and refine processes in their R&D group. Here is another in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen , Information Architect at Océ , about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences.

Guru.com for open outsourcing - find and bid on a job, trust and reputation through testimonials and portfolio work, escrow and negotiation processes on site, project management tools for each job including landscape gardening, lawyers, plumbers, probably even hiring social network strategists :)  The poor saps.  Was on a panel today, at Cebit 2009 at Darling Harbor, Sydney.  You You might like part two where I showed a list of Enterprise 2.0