“Interfaces and devices are providing more and more power and functionality to people, and in many cases this additional power is accompanied by increasing complexity. Although people have more experience and are more sophisticated, it still takes time to learn new interfaces, information, and interactions. Although we are able to learn and use these often difficult interfaces, we increasingly seek and appreciate simplicity. The Complexity Curve describes how a project moves from boundless opportunity and wonderful ideas to requirements checklists and constraints then finally (but only rarely) to simplicity and elegance. Where many projects call themselves complete when the necessary features have been included, few push forward and strive to deliver the pleasing and delightful experiences that arise from simplicity, focus, and purpose.

While IBM may not be the first to market, the least expensive nor the easiest to install/configure/manage, one thing they certainly do well is articulate the business value of social business. Every marketing message, product demo and customer case study is focused on why and how organizations need to transform themselves into a social business to remain competitive. My mantra for a while now has been to stop talking about "being social" and to instead focus on "getting work done" and IBM appears to be on that path.

this looks to be an excellent way to engage those who need to understand Social Business without the technical and Notes/Domino bias of the Lotusphere event. It has often been difficult to justify a trip to Lotusphere to C-level or Director-level executives and managers in the past, Connect may be the first time that this is an easier business case than for the administrators and developers!

The dynamic nature of today’s enterprise no longer suits the office environment of yesteryear, where everyone showed up at 8 and left at 5. Work organizations, old and new, are embracing the more “flexible office” powered by cloud-based services, mobile technology, and pervasive broadband. Besides offering flexibility for employees, enterprises are realizing concrete benefits to their budgets. But some companies are grappling with the challenges of building and retaining a workforce culture when their employees are everywhere.

The W3C Social Business Jam is an online conversation among leaders in business, government and technology about the current state of social business, the future role that social technologies can play in improving the bottom line, and how social technology should evolve in order to support business objectives. A primary objective of the Jam is to cooperatively explore key trends and concepts in social business with an eye towards how social standards can facilitate business goals. The Jam should produce a better understanding for participants of how businesses are using social technologies and the challenges they face integrating the technologies into their existing environments.

David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints--fiscal, temporal, or otherwise--drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company.

Vertreter namhafter Agenturen aus dem Rhein-Main-Gebiet berichten über Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Thema Usability. Die Herausforderung, benutzerfreundliche Lösungen in die Praxis umzusetzen, wird ein Schwerpunkt sein. Usability im Bereich Mobilität und Reisen ist das Thema von zwei weiteren Vorträgen.

a summary of all the sessions and events where IBM will be participating during the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston by Stephen Londergan

I am on my way to Milano for the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 - hoping that there will be decent translations for the italian language parts.

Blogged a short upcoming notice so you all know where I am

Der diesjährige Intranet Summit beschäftigt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit der Wertorientierung in Intranet-Projekten und diskutiert diese anhand von Fallbeispielen und Best-Practices. Vom 24.-25. Juni 2009 warten in Bad Homburg wieder einige Highlights auf die Intranet-Verantwortlichen aus dem Unternehmensbereich. Dabei gilt es auch zu zeigen, dass Intranet-Projekte in Krisenzeiten häufig zu unrecht als Kostentreiber verurteilt werden.

At last week's European Academy of Management in Liverpool, a gathering of organisation and management academics mostly but not only from Europe, I was delighted to spend time with some scholars paying serious attention to questions of designing and it relation to managing. The track on Design Thinking, Management and Innovation was co-chaired by Armand Hatchuel, from Ecole des Mines and Rachel Cooper, Lancaster. Hatchuel and Weil's C-K (Concept Knowledge) theory is an important contribution to the study of management, via engineering design theory, and formal logic

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration

Was ist Social Business?

Mit „Social Business“ findet derzeit ein Paradigmenwechsel in der Weltwirtschaft und Weltgesellschaft statt. Das GENISIS Institut erforscht diesen tiefgreifenden Wandel und begleitet ihn aktiv in seiner erfolgreichen Umsetzung.

„Social Business“ – ein neuer Sektor in der Weltwirtschaft

Die von Prof. Yunus im Jahr 2008 gestartete weltweite Kampagne für „Social Business“ will nichts Geringeres erreichen als die Etablierung eines neuen ergänzenden Sektors in der Weltwirtschaft, der sich der ökonomischen Lösung der drängendsten sozialen Probleme in der Welt verschreibt.

Links and Media galore

Das intelligente Unternehmen steht im Mittelpunkt des siebten Heidelberger Innovationsforums. Unter dem Titel „The Living Enterprise – Intelligent Business Process Management“ werden am 25. November 2008 Forscher und Entwickler mit Investoren und potenziellen Geschäftspartnern zusammen gebracht.

Ziel des Matchmaking-Formats ist, die Lizenzierung von Technologien, die Finanzierung von Start-Up-Firmen sowie die Kooperation zwischen Forschungseinrichtungen und Firmen in Europa zu unterstützen.

Good coverage from Howlett about the Enterprise 2.0 conference. I like McAfee's urging of a community definition of the meme via joint editing of the Wikipedia entry for it. Lots of good material if you couldn't make it.

The Forum is characterized by:
* A 360° overview on Enterprise 2.0 business and organizative impact
* A comprehensive exploration of Enterprise 2.0 tools and techniques: tagging, blogging, wiki, feed rss, open innovation, widgets

Defizite beim Wissensaustausch veranlassten die Fraport AG im vergangenen Jahr dazu, ein Wiki einzuführen. „Der Wissensaustausch entlang der Hierarchien war langsam und fehleranfällig“

Conference Proceedings of Bled cConferences

When design and business work together, brilliant things happen. At “Gain,” hear today’s success stories from a select group of business and design leaders from a variety of industries,

Global businesses increasingly appreciate how design and design thinking can provide them with high-level, strategic value and competitive advantage.

Für Experimentierfreudige bietet sich vielleicht auch Google Sites an, kann man im weitesten Sinne als Wiki ohne Wiki-Komplexitäten (und leider auch -Leistungsfähigkeiten) verstehen.
Gerade darum ist es aber u.U. den Zielen/Teilnehmerkreis, angemessen

BlogTalk 2008, the 5th International Conference on Social Software, will be held in Cork, Ireland on the 3rd-4th March 2008.

prima ... JN mit dabei

a very interactive discussion and networking event with people willing to contribute to the success of the event

Zürich ist ja ganz nett ...

WikiSym is the only international scientific conference dedicated to wikis. It brings together wiki researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend our growing community.

If you’re not familiar with Prof. Benkler, you should be. His book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is the treatise on /study of commons-based peer production.

Workshop "Web Collaboration in Unternehmen" der IEEE Engineering Management Society am 28.09.2007 in München

teuer

max ist auch da ...

Whereas at most conferences the conversation is entirely one-way, the beauty of unconferences is their ability open up two way dialogue. This is because at an unconference, everybody is potential a speaker ... yet, it doesn’t mention Open Space by name

hmm, Davenport ... this is something worth studying and researching, and maybe some organizations will get some benefit. But it’s way too early to call it a revolution.

videos und slides ...

More practically, Enterprise 2.0 is about the deployment of blogs, wikis, social networks, and more freeform, egalitarian collaborative technologies that tap into the collective mind within enterprises.

It has dawned on IBM that enterprise customers are going to start using Web 2.0 technologies to bypass some of Big Blue's more expensive infrastructure software (EAI anyone?) ... ross on IBMs mashup event

Recent surveys report that 21% of executives globally will be investing in mashup development this year. Will you?

The big words for me at Sapphire were collaboration, community and co-innovation. These came out loud and clear in Henning’s speech, the demos of Harmony and other social computing developments point to a focus on collaboration.

Some key takeaways from this year’s SAP Sapphire Conference…

The amount of information boiling out of Sapphire is dizzying, and you have distilled it nicely, as well as providing a reference post to the other blogs.

draw some more attention from different businesses around the subject of social computing and successfully managed to get them into the conversation of why they cannot longer ignore the social computing space

möglichst unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf die Entwicklungen im sogenannten “Web 2.0″ zusammen zu führen und innerhalb der zweieinhalb Tage eine fruchtbare Diskussion über neue und möglicherweise nicht so neue Entwicklungen im gegenwärtigen Inte

"Web 2.0 is about employee collaboration and empowerment and self service. That's what we're achieving with the wiki

In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving communication, and enabling coordination among groups of people.

how smart businesses are leveraging new tools and technologies, hand in hand with culture and processes, to increase innovation, productivity and agility