The Enterprise Social Search feed jockey

In a business world where change is constant, knowledge becomes an essential asset for any organization. Survival and growth require the development of solutions that will optimize collaboration and knowledge management.

Focussing on this topic we recently produced our first whitepaper. It analyses the benefits associated with the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 solutions, and positions the collaborative management of knowledge as a stable and lasting solution, especially in these times of economic tumult.

Read the full article at blog.whatever-company.com

“In the past most knowledge management projects failed. Some even say that knowledge management is dead. But the success of social software raises hopes to revive the topic and bring it back on the companies’ agenda. But new tools are often deployed with old concepts - a strategy that will inescapably fail.”

Read the full article at www.besser20.de

“I get calls from all types of organizations seeking guidance on their path to Enterprise 2.0 success. Sometimes I’m just in awe of the great ideas and clever tactics they ask about. And sometimes I have to hide my emotion as they explain the challenge they face. I’ll share one such tidbit — of course with fake names.”

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“I find that it is important to put social networking in the context of business goals. If I set goals, and determine how / what I want social networking and online social activity to achieve, it becomes easier to know when to stop before I waste time — and to actually stop. Setting goals gives you a clearer sense of purpose to your daily activities…”

Read the full article at blogs.openforum.com

“Overall Knowledge Plaza looks very impressive - an intuitive user interface that isn’t going to alienate non techie users coupled with powerful functionality makes this a tool I can see being a primary nucleus for information wranglers.”

Read the full article at blogs.zdnet.com

“Knowledge Plaza is in mijn ogen een enterprise ready systeem dat kennisintensieve Communities of Practices kan ondersteunen door enterprise social search, social bookmarking en collaboration te faciliteren en te integreren met bestaande IT huishouding. Juist deze integratie met bestaande IT omgevingen maakt Knowledge Plaza een interessante kandidaat voor bedrijven die het zoeken, vinden, bewaren en verrijken van informatie binnen een organisatie naar een 2.0 niveau willen tillen. Het voelt ook als een product dat zo bij iedere multinational naar binnen geschoven kan worden.”

Read the full article at www.martinkloos.nl

“Based on Gartner’s findings, the top technology priorities of global CIOs involves harvesting value from existing core technologies in a way that solidifies business intelligence, enterprise applications, and virtualization. In this environment, there are some technologies that will get left out in the cold - “Basically, anything new,” McDonald said - but Web 2.0 tools are not among them.
McDonald said anecdotal evidence, including conversations with CIOs, indicates that social computing tools are on a different plane because such tools are not prohibitively expensive to adopt. “What’s the average cost of implementation of a new business intelligence capability? McDonald asked. “It’s not $5, but companies are implementing web 2.0 technology for very little money.
“Investments in BI and CRM and ERP were viewed as investments, and fairly significant capital expenditures. Companies are doing web 2.0 things almost as a straight operating expense.”
That’s true, he added, whether companies apply Web 2.0 tools internally to foster collaboration, or externally to attract new customers and retain existing ones. McDonald advised against favoring one approach over the other. The deteriorating economy does not mean that any aspect of social computing, which Gartner cited as a top emerging trend in 2008, should be placed on the back burner.”

Read the full article at wistechnology.com

“The beginning of the year is a good time to take stock of where things are going and try and get a handle on the macro trends affecting our work. For me that means enterprise collaboration in all its forms. Here are six major trends that will encourage leaders to take action and help their organisations to be even more collaborative.”

Read the full article at www.anecdote.com.au

Andrew posts his answer to 3 questions that were regularly raised by people commenting the previous posts on this topic.
- If you measure activity, aren’t you just going to get activity?
- Why not measure instead what we’re really interested in: innovativeness, productivity, service levels, etc.?
- Wouldn’t some people treat ESSP contribution as a chore, doing the minimum necessary, and with minimal thoughtfulness?

Read the full article at blog.hbs.edu

“Knowledge Plaza is a Web-based platform for enterprise search, social bookmarking, knowledge management, information brokerage and expert identification. Every tile, or piece of information, has its own page like members so you can see all the activity related to the information. You can also send a link to the page so others can see the context around the information. I like this in the same way I think the Mosaic concept adds value. You get the context surrounding information and you can share this context. This concept of providing context is pervasive in Knowledge Plaza and I think that is one of its greatest strengths. It takes knowledge management nicely into enterprise 2.0.”

Read the full article at www.theappgap.com