E2.0: For heaven’s sake it is NOT Facebook & Twitter…

Artist: Susan E Evans http://www.susaneevans.com

It is about people and processes. And the way within enterprises people better can communicate and collaborate. From my point of view, that is a changing context any operational manager has to connect to and act. And you know, act compact but act. Great post in my opinion

http://tushneem.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/enterprise-2-0-please-for-heavens-sake-it-is-not-facebook-twitter Author: Tushneem May 21, 2009

Although being one of the organizers at the MIT CIO Conference I shouldn’t be critical about a panel but I could not resist posting this article.

I was sitting in a panel on Enterprise 2.0 today at the symposium and I need to respectfully disagree with the distinguished panelists on what Enterprise 2.0 is.

I was getting really frustrated when the panelists kept talking about platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, about how organizations should break down the barriers and leverage these platforms, ultimately getting onto the Enterprise 2.0 bandwagon.

All the while I was sitting there and thinking to myself…. Are you guys kidding me? So you are telling me that if a Boss fires an employee tomorrow, he is going to do that through his Tweet or Facebook status or his blog? Or for that matter instead of sharing information within or collaborating within, I would expect my employees to sign on external websites and then hope that they’ll get their technical information there?

Hell no! These platforms which are Web 2.0 and NOT Enterprise 2.0. can be leveraged by companies to their advantage in specific functions and in specific scenarios but that does not make these platforms Enterprise 2.0.

It is a great post that can be continued

Artist: Susan E Evans http://www.susaneevans.com

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