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enterprise 2.0

A what if: the Gulf disaster and e2.0

June 21, 2010

As someone who started her career working on oil rigs, the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico really hit home. I know first-hand the intense and often times dangerous activities on a drilling platform, and the enormous coordination effort involved in every drilling program. As I have followed this accident I have been struck [...]

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Social Business Software is on the move

May 26, 2010

It is good news for my hometown Palo Alto that Jive Software is moving its HQ here. And it is good news for business too. Jive is clearly getting traction and that is good news for business because Jive sells the kind of software that companies need to enable collaboration and to avoid the problems [...]

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Netflix: Make More Customer Magic with Your People and Your Data

April 26, 2010

I’ve often thought my older relatives should try Netflix. But they don’t have a computer at home and I just didn’t see how it could work for them. They use the library computers in their home town, but I know they wouldn’t be comfortable doing the credit card thing online, much less at the library. [...]

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Emergent Intelligence: SocialText and Baynote

January 25, 2010

What does an Emergent Business Execution Platform look like? I asked this question in my last post of 2009. Building up to this question, I had argued that “excellence in execution is infrastructure, because processes and tools can incorporate and model best practices in execution to a degree and with a speed and flexibility not [...]

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Human Capital x Social Capital = Productivity and Innovation

December 14, 2009

My guest post on Blogging Innovation 12/10/09: As a culture we like to think of our achievements as the triumph of the individual. But last week I used a memorable chicken breeding example to show you that group performance outweighs individual performance in a group environment because a focus on individual performance comes at a [...]

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Let’s talk about chickens and e2.0

December 1, 2009

While it might seem that there is no possible link between chickens and Enterprise 2.0, it turns out that there is a really good story about group versus personal productivity involving chickens: William Muir, an animal breeder at Purdue University, wanted to increase egg production by selective breeding, and he tried to do it in [...]

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Excellence in Execution is Infrastructure

November 9, 2009

My guest post on SuccessFactors Business Execution blog 11/6/09: CEO’s continue to rate execution excellence as their top challenge. But what does “excellence in execution” actually mean? The CEO wants to turn the wheel and have the ship respond, but according to extensive research repeated year after year, only 10-15% of wheel turns get the [...]

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