• Reconciling social computing with the enterprise

  Dion writes about how to bridge the gap between the social collaboration world outside and classical organizations.

  Strategies and battle plans “how to proceed”, I am with this but have doubts at the same time.

  To me it’s probably about the benefits of aiming high (you might achieve at least a bit) vs. procedding with cautious little steps? We all know it’s about the social dimensions in the first place with Enterprise 2.0, where both approaches have their up- and downsides …

  tags: adoption, enterprise2.0, implementation

  • what’s turning into an increasingly larger gap between what happens in the business world and what happens everywhere else
  • the act of work itself is becoming more of a collective journey instead of a final destination as our individual work experiences become more open, collaborative, participatory, and social
  • This situation creates a delta that, sooner or later, will simply become untenable for many organizations
  • exerts a subversive force on organizations as their workers help themselves to the tools of their own volition, bring their (and arguably better) new behaviors and processes to work, and try to get things done with them, whether that’s crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, online customer communities, etc.
  • constituencies that have a stake in doing things the old way are disrupted by new social models for achieving those same business objectives, whether the replacements are highly collaborative work processes or the network co-creation of product designs and other outputs
  • So what’s an organization to do? Are there strategies that can help mitigate the seemingly growing tension, take advantage of new skills and behaviors of our workers, and avoid potential for sudden and/or unexpected changes in our businesses? In fact, is it even possible to intentionally encourage and adopt bottom-up processes? Fortunately, based on the experiences of those that have adopted them, there do seem to be some general strategies that can help.

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