Enterprise 2.0 and Collaboration
Collaboration has quickly become a mandate to remaining competitive. Collaboration is not new to business, but the Web, and more recently Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 tools and technologies have brought a new level of capabilities that have changed the collaborative abilities and scale of distributed collaboration for the enterprise.
Whether it’s because the “World is Flat” or you want to tap the “Wisdom of Crowds,” collaboration needs to be a part of your business strategy… But, it doesn’t just HAPPEN.
Social networking on the web happened organically. Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to collaboration morphed effortlessly into Enterprise 2.0 counterparts. But to drive effective approaches to collaboration, using these tools and a host of “legacy” technologies within or across your enterprise, takes a strategy. That begins with a definition of the types of approaches to collaboration, your definition of community and the specific goals or objectives desired as outcomes from collaboration.
This business strategy needs to be supported through a technology framework that properly leverages everything from automated work scheduling and groupware to mashups, blogs, wikis and social networking to facilitate and improve collaboration and drive innovation across your enterprise.
Fresh Enterprise 2.0 findings from 2009
Organizations leverage collaborative platforms to:
- Crowdsource consumers
- Drive faster decision-making
- Minimize mis-communication and increase effective communication
- Support effective outsourcing
- Harness the power of social media
- Shorten project timelines
- Decrease travel costs
- Fuel innovation
- Leverage emerging technologies and business models
Our Enterprise 2.0 Research from 2008
How we can help
- Confused by the variety of emerging collaboration technologies (such as wikis, blogs, Google Wave, communities, social business software, SharePoint)?
- Need a strategy to configure, customize and integrate these technologies to provide and facilitate collaboration in YOUR business?
- Wondering how to position collaboration within your organization to specifically drive innovation and impact your critical business drivers?
- Do you need to migrate legacy approaches to collaboration into a new strategy?
- Need to reconcile collaboration with corporate governance?
If You answer Yes to any of these questions – then Information Architected can provide the assistance you need.
Our services include:
We develop customized strategies and implementation plans for collaboration within an enterprise and specifically provide needs assessments, change management planning, and construction of the information architecture and governance that properly support your collaboration goals and objectives.
Though no two implementations will be exactly the same, there are critical best practices to implementation that should be followed. Information Architected provides the guidance and methodologies necessary to ensure the success of your collaboration initiative.
If you are tired of the unapproachable, expensive, “ivory tower” consultants and analysts of the world, or the integrators who only promote the solution they resell, we are the antidote to provide realistic, affordable and relevant strategic solutions for your business needs.
Information Architected, is open to Discuss, Debate, Consult and Educate.
