There are all kinds of hard stops and high boundaries for containing what the organization knows in order to perpetuate its revenue streams...Or does this IP model sow the seeds of growth and breakthrough thinking?
If necessity is the mother of invention, the mother of all inventions is the hail mary pass down-field from the informal discussions to the statement of work. That's the bartering system of contacts, pointers, and project experience known in consulting circles as a community of practice -- crowdsourcing with clearly defined markers: a deal in need of closing chased by a fast-approaching deadline
A major area of debate and concern for organisations considering how to establish, grow and manage an online community is the importance of the community manager, and what exactly the role entails
In the land of the free the biggest hole being drilled through any firewall is being led not by hackers but by the inmates themselves. As a BETA tester for Facebook's email slayer Gillmor told Brooke Gladstone in a recent edition of NPR's On the Media that he trialed a universal import of all his electronic scatterings
Consider this: who should drive the formation of social business communities within your company?...Part of Jason’s strategy for lead generation includes dramatically expanding the number of employees empowered to identify and initiate leads
The fact is there is not one but many kind of people to rely on and, most of all, each of them have a specific role that needs a specific enablement
“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat... to be sure of maintaining that state of mind knows as a burning desire to win , essential to success
I can remember as a teenager working on my cars – of course that was my interpretation of what I drove – I would go to the local You-Fix-It garage to use their lifts and tools
One of the biggest changes brought by enterprise 2.0 is the ability for employees to identify each other, build communties where they could share their experience, solve problems and seamlessly improve their skills