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"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, …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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