Archive for the ‘Consumerization of IT’ Category
Gartner’s social software predictions for 2010 and beyond
Gartner recently released a set of predictions on the use of social software in the enterprise. If you are like most executives you can feel the pressure from your organization to become more social. If you are already a consumer of social applications you will probably be nodding your head in agreement. I won’t analyze [...]
New Cisco Report: Need for Social Middleware
Cisco recently commissioned and published a report to study how organizations use consumer social networking tools. The results were both promising and shocking. The report reveals the both the value of adopting these tools in the enterprise and also the risks that need to be addressed through stronger governance and IT involvement. Here are a [...]
Power struggle between employees and the enterprise
When one imagines the layout of a hierarchy, they usually think of an up-right triangle: the most powerful at the top and the least powerful at the bottom. As one moves up the hierarchy, the circle of people becomes smaller and smaller. The up-right triangle was the hierarchy of life before the explosion of the [...]
Top 5 predictions for social in 2010
ReadWriteWeb recently released a great post on their predictions for 2010. It is a long list and definitely worth a read. I thought I would share my own personal top 5 list distilled down from all the great insights they had to share. #5 “A new social network will rise to join the big ones. [...]
What’s in a name? In this case a lot
As you may have seen or heard, Socialware officially launched to the world last week and staked it’s claim to what we consider to be a new category of technology, Social Middleware. The long and winding road to arriving at what we consider to be the perfect description of the void in the technology and [...]
Food for thought: The Social Enterprise Roll
Some people vow to never eat sushi for countless reasons: it’s weird, it’s made with raw fish, it smells bad, and more. Stepping outside of our comfort zone when it comes to food can be a huge deal for some people. Finally coming to terms with oneself and finally picking up those chopsticks to eat [...]



