Comments on: Mills Spikes Consumer Social Software for IBM – Can Enterprises Afford Ignoring the Consumer Market? http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/ A blog about Knowledge Management, Communities, Collaboration, Learning, Social Computing and Work/Life Balance Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:49:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Wikis, Blogs, RSS Aim for the Workplace - And about Time! http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-138264 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Wikis, Blogs, RSS Aim for the Workplace - And about Time! Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:39:44 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-138264 [...] As I have mentioned above, the main reason why I have found that particular article interesting is because it captures some of the main themes behind the Web 2.0 Expo event and which touch base on a couple of weblog posts I have shared in the past. Basically, how Web 2.0 should certainly not only become the base for Enterprise 2.0, but how it should not just stop just there. It should also be able to address some of the potential concerns that the corporate world has got about Web 2.0 ("areas like availability, performance, scalability and security"), address them and fix them, but always starting from the point of view where Web 2.0 left things: driving innovation at a rampant pace without having to necessarily reinvent the wheel! [...] [...] As I have mentioned above, the main reason why I have found that particular article interesting is because it captures some of the main themes behind the Web 2.0 Expo event and which touch base on a couple of weblog posts I have shared in the past. Basically, how Web 2.0 should certainly not only become the base for Enterprise 2.0, but how it should not just stop just there. It should also be able to address some of the potential concerns that the corporate world has got about Web 2.0 ("areas like availability, performance, scalability and security"), address them and fix them, but always starting from the point of view where Web 2.0 left things: driving innovation at a rampant pace without having to necessarily reinvent the wheel! [...]

]]> By: Tomoaki Sawada http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-133272 Tomoaki Sawada Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:56:57 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-133272 Hi Luis, FYI Forrester published interesting research report Social Computing Upends Past Knowledge Management Archetypes http://www.forrester.com/Events/Content/0,5180,-1674,00.ppt (registration required), with the focus on "how Social Computing will impact KM in enterprises" Regards Hi Luis, FYI Forrester published interesting research report
Social Computing Upends Past Knowledge Management Archetypes
http://www.forrester.com/Events/Content/0,5180,-1674,00.ppt
(registration required), with the focus on “how Social Computing will impact KM in enterprises”
Regards

]]> By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Mills Spikes Consumer Social Software for IBM - Can Enterprises Afford Ignoring the Consumer Market? - Part Deux http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-131871 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Mills Spikes Consumer Social Software for IBM - Can Enterprises Afford Ignoring the Consumer Market? - Part Deux Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:18:51 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-131871 [...] If you would remember, a couple of days ago, I created a weblog article under the header Mills Spikes Consumer Social Software for IBM - Can Enterprises Afford Ignoring the Consumer Market where I was actually discussing if corporations (And IBM, in particular) should dive into the social computing space while ignoring the consumer market and the innovation that has been happening in there thus far at an incredible pace. Apparently, that particular weblog entry grabbed a bit of interest from both Mike Gotta and James Governor who created some additional articles in their own weblogs, respectively. And I just thought about creating a follow up post commenting on some of the stuff that grabbed my attention while reading both items. So here it goes: [...] [...] If you would remember, a couple of days ago, I created a weblog article under the header Mills Spikes Consumer Social Software for IBM – Can Enterprises Afford Ignoring the Consumer Market where I was actually discussing if corporations (And IBM, in particular) should dive into the social computing space while ignoring the consumer market and the innovation that has been happening in there thus far at an incredible pace. Apparently, that particular weblog entry grabbed a bit of interest from both Mike Gotta and James Governor who created some additional articles in their own weblogs, respectively. And I just thought about creating a follow up post commenting on some of the stuff that grabbed my attention while reading both items. So here it goes: [...]

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-131847 Luis Suarez Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:50:57 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-131847 Hi Ed! Thanks a lot for letting me know about this and for the kind feedback! No, I haven't shared it internally at the original time I posted it over here, but I surely have done it now in my internal blog and will be spreading the word around as well. Appreciated the comments! Hi Ed! Thanks a lot for letting me know about this and for the kind feedback! No, I haven’t shared it internally at the original time I posted it over here, but I surely have done it now in my internal blog and will be spreading the word around as well. Appreciated the comments!

]]> By: Luis Suarez http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-131464 Luis Suarez Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:19:58 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-131464 <p>Hello folks! Thanks much for the feedback comments and for dropping by! Appreciated all the great input and the trackback. </p> <p><strong>Mike</strong>, I certainly agree with your point that in the current flow of information and how knowledge gets spread around nowadays issues like security, identity, compliance and so on are not just good enough. Over time the barriers between work and private life are slowly disappearing and rearranging the way we have traditionally known the workplace. And as such, applications that at the time were rather strict in how the knowledge and information would flow would go need to open up now in order to accommodate the new needs and requirements from that particular workforce that wants to combine both what they may be doing outside of work with what they are doing at work. Fascinating topic, indeed!</p> <p>I thought I would go ahead and create another follow up weblog entry on the subject commenting as well not only on some of what <strong>James</strong> has mentioned already in the article he has created, since I think it is worth while enough to expand further on another article, but also on what you have mentioned in your own weblog. Thus stay tuned for some more to come!</p> <p>Thanks again for the feedback !</p> Hello folks! Thanks much for the feedback comments and for dropping by! Appreciated all the great input and the trackback.

Mike, I certainly agree with your point that in the current flow of information and how knowledge gets spread around nowadays issues like security, identity, compliance and so on are not just good enough. Over time the barriers between work and private life are slowly disappearing and rearranging the way we have traditionally known the workplace. And as such, applications that at the time were rather strict in how the knowledge and information would flow would go need to open up now in order to accommodate the new needs and requirements from that particular workforce that wants to combine both what they may be doing outside of work with what they are doing at work. Fascinating topic, indeed!

I thought I would go ahead and create another follow up weblog entry on the subject commenting as well not only on some of what James has mentioned already in the article he has created, since I think it is worth while enough to expand further on another article, but also on what you have mentioned in your own weblog. Thus stay tuned for some more to come!

Thanks again for the feedback !

]]> By: Ed Brill http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-131240 Ed Brill Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:13:47 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-131240 I sure hope you've shared this internally.. I sure hope you’ve shared this internally..

]]> By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Why IBM’s Steve Mills Should Be Like King Canute http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-131149 James Governor’s Monkchips » Why IBM’s Steve Mills Should Be Like King Canute Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:53:16 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-131149 [...] IBM still says it doesn’t play in the enterprise applications business, which is probably the right thing to say, even where the facts speak otherwise. But now is not the time for “we dont need a consumer strategy” rhetoric. Some people in the trenches (and folks from IDC and Burton) agree. Dion Hinchcliff has a great roundup here of some recent analysis into the market, which talk to “the actual changes that the consumer Web appears to be imposing increasingly on our organization from the bottom up”. How IBM thinks it can help anyone with collaborative innovation, and Product Development 2.0, that doesn’t touch the buyers of products is beyond me. Perhaps the Global Innovation Outlook analysis should have been skewed not just to media, but user-generated media, in order to get IBM management attention. Who was King Canute anyway? His name is often used negatively, as a byword for a vainglorious king, because he stood in front of an incoming tide to try and hold it back, so proving his godlike credentials. But the truth is rather more interesting. Canute did, in fact, stand in front of the tide- but to prove a point… that even a king can’t hold the tide back, whatever his courtiers told him. [...] [...] IBM still says it doesn’t play in the enterprise applications business, which is probably the right thing to say, even where the facts speak otherwise. But now is not the time for “we dont need a consumer strategy” rhetoric. Some people in the trenches (and folks from IDC and Burton) agree. Dion Hinchcliff has a great roundup here of some recent analysis into the market, which talk to “the actual changes that the consumer Web appears to be imposing increasingly on our organization from the bottom up”. How IBM thinks it can help anyone with collaborative innovation, and Product Development 2.0, that doesn’t touch the buyers of products is beyond me. Perhaps the Global Innovation Outlook analysis should have been skewed not just to media, but user-generated media, in order to get IBM management attention. Who was King Canute anyway? His name is often used negatively, as a byword for a vainglorious king, because he stood in front of an incoming tide to try and hold it back, so proving his godlike credentials. But the truth is rather more interesting. Canute did, in fact, stand in front of the tide- but to prove a point… that even a king can’t hold the tide back, whatever his courtiers told him. [...]

]]> By: Mike Gotta http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/comment-page-1/#comment-130880 Mike Gotta Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:21:53 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/04/03/mills-spikes-consumer-social-software-for-ibm-can-enterprises-afford-ignoring-the-consumer-market/#comment-130880 Well said. I agree with many points. Security, identity, compliance and so on are critical aspects of how social software is differentiated in the consumer and enterprise space, but over time, there are bigger trends afoot that will continue to blur the lines of digital life and digital work. http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2007/04/mills_spikes_co.html Well said. I agree with many points. Security, identity, compliance and so on are critical aspects of how social software is differentiated in the consumer and enterprise space, but over time, there are bigger trends afoot that will continue to blur the lines of digital life and digital work.

http://mikeg.typepad.com/perceptions/2007/04/mills_spikes_co.html

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