"Enterprise 2.0" is about organizational performance, not just t****!
Safaricom is revolutionizing what currency means in Kenya with M-PESA. A true, radical innovator, in an industry characterized by many fossilized players in developed countries. Will I ever see an “Enterprise 2.0″ case study on Safaricom? Yes, if they deploy a wiki, social networking platform, etc. Otherwise, no. How crazy is that? Their combination of IT tools, culture, organizational design, …
Enterprise Social Computing Pricing: continuing the discussion
When writing blog posts, we usually reply to one or several other posts, quoting at most 2–3 extracts of them. In emails, it is fairly common to keep replying and articulating refinements as further thoughts are spurred. Why don’t we do it on blogs as well? I don’t know, but I’ll try here, and it may prove interesting. Let me …
Consuprise 2: Combine consumer and entreprise markets to multiply network effects
Expand to see inline the other posts in Strategic Shifts» How can web start-ups use the enterprise market to make inroads in the consumer market(s) they target? By playing at the edge, and using the enterprise market to strategically dominate competitors in the consumer market eventually targeted. The revenue streams created in the process (detailed in a previous post) are …
How to price Enterprise Social Computing offerings?
Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Management» Innovation is obvious in the Enterprise Social Computing field. Features are invented and combined in novel ways; ever changing suites of products are built and marketed. Innovation is very real, even if not of the scale signaled by the hype around it. It’s not in pricing however. Even worse: pricing …
Additional resources on increasing pricing schemes for enterprise social applications
Below is a slide deck calling for increasing pricing schemes for enterprise social networking applications. This is complementing an upcoming and more detailed post, but in the meantime, I’m already posting the slides here. I will of course update this post when the new one is out. Don’t hesitate to point any mistakes! UPDATE: The post is now up here …
Do you know I have 8 children ?
Well, I don’t. But if I did, by reading my tweets, you would surely know. And if we met, that’s one peculiarity about me you would already know. In fact, you would already know a lot about me. Likely, many of the things you would know after a little while, should we develop a relationship. Normally, a relationship goes through …
How to sabotage an organization: CIA field ops manual...
Expand to see inline the other posts in Organizational Strategy» This is making the rounds in the blogosphere, and while it isn’t actually helpful, it does make for a good intro piece in a speech, talk, etc. Coming from the 1944 Simple sabotage field manual, on how to sabotage an organization (page 28): (1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.†Never permit …
by Julien Le Nestour