Network Monitoring & Server Monitoring Software | Temperature Monitoring Sensors. OpenERP - Open Source Business Applications. Askvisory.com - Speak with Experts. Enterprise 2.0: How a Connected Workforce Innovates - HBR.org. Enterprise 2.0 tools—wikis, tags, Twitter and other microblogs, Google-style searches, and the like—are transforming companies’ innovation processes, according to Andrew P. McAfee, a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School’s Center for Digital Business, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the author of the forthcoming book Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges (Harvard Business Press, 2009). McAfee explains why in a recent conversation with HBR senior editor Anand P. Raman. How do the new social technologies transform innovation efforts?
Companies have traditionally been very specific about who’s going to do the innovating: their designers, engineers, scientists...Those people have the credentials—the right combination of education, experience, success, failure, and so on. Some companies now say: Why stop at lead users? Does the use of Enterprise 2.0 technologies yield better ideas? Keep two things in mind. There are few risks. 2010 Predictions. Every year the ReadWriteWeb team tries its hand at predicting the future. Looking back at our 2009 predictions, we got some wrong (I predicted that Facebook would sign up to OpenSocial) but others turned out to be on the money. I correctly guessed that the usual suspects would remain unacquired in '09 - Digg, Twitter, Technorati - but that FriendFeed would get bought.
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