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The IT industry is never short on grandiose claims of what the next big trend is, or what will turn into the next killer app, or which currently scorching technology will soon fall by the wayside. Just about everyday on our IT newswire there seems to be one, and it’s easy to discount 99 per cent of them, having seen that most of the prognostications never turn into fact.
One that I saw recently, however, jumped out at me as having a chance. The threory put forth was that e-mail would eventually be usurped within the enterprise by the variety of social networking and relatively robust Web-based collaborative tools that are forging a path through the business world.
With e-mail such a core piece of communications technology today, it seems hard to imagine it being replaced any time soon. But when you look at the trend happening around so-called Web 2.0 apps, and how in many ways they offer a more nimble and real-time way of getting ideas across and responding to others’ input, it looks like there’s a chance it could become preferable to e-mail.
Don’t expect to be uninstalling your Outlook anytime soon…but remember that business is addicted to speed, and if these new platforms can offer a decided advantage in that department, don’t be surprised if e-mail becomes the new “snail mail”.
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Greg Enright and filed under Web 2.0 | No Comments »
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(3 votes, average: 9.33 out of 10) Loading ...“Don’t worry be crappy”
- By Joaquim P. Menezes -
“Don’t worry, be happy,” sang Bobby McFerrin.
A key guiding principle of the would-be-innovator should be: “Don’t worry, be crappy,” according to venture capitalist, success coach and Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki.
He delivered the keynote at a recent event I attended in Orlando. Fla.
At first blush that seemed pretty weird advice from a success coach – until Kawasaki clarified what he meant.
This is not an invitation to create crap, he said. “I’m saying create revolutionary things that jump curves that may have elements of crappiness. There’s a big difference.
“The reason, he said, is that if you wait to dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’ – if you wait for “the perfect world where everything is cheap, completely debugged, the engineers say all the features are in there” - you will never ship.
He cited the example of the Mac 128K that Apple shipped in 1984.
“It was a great computer, but had elements of crappiness to it. For example, thanks to my contribution, there was no software. There was also hard disk, no slots, no colour, no chips – piece of crap. But it was a revolutionary piece of crap.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on July 18th, 2007 by Joaquim Menezes and filed under Apple, Best Practices, Innovation, Social media, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
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(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10) Loading ...A wiki for your thoughts
- By Joaquim P. Menezes -
With their proven effectiveness in building brand, enhancing communications and even boosting revenue, why isn’t use of Web 2.0 tools – such as blogs and wikis – becoming more pervasive among enteprises?
The answer to that was provided by a recent study by The Nemertes Research Group.
Only 37 per cent of enterprises surveyed by Nemertes were using wikis.
Those that weren’t cited three key challenges to adoption: management, security and compliance.
CIOs also expressed concern about the way wikis are introduced into organizations – outside the control – and sometimes even the knowledge – of IT.
Okay, so there are undoubtedly risks to deploying social media tools. So what should enterprises do? Should they: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on July 17th, 2007 by Joaquim Menezes and filed under Best Practices, Innovation, Social media, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
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