The Xpragmatic View
The Xpragmatic View is a management-oriented publication where we give our very personal, sometimes controversial, view on management thinking on the intersection of technological evolution, organisational change and business strategy: a messy world of unfulfilled promises.
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Collaboration comes before the problem
Collaboration, the engine of the social enterprise. The magic that will solve all our enterprise problems. It sure can do. However, did we ever seriously think about 'when' collaboration must happen?
Technology has dramatically changed our world. However, most often, these changes were not planned for or expected. In a similar way, when we try using technology to drive change, results are in general highly unpredictable.
Can the real-time enterprise be efficient?
We are living times with a growing focus on NOW. Increasingly, we have access to information anywhere, anytime and increasingly, our interaction behaviour asks for anywhere, anytime, now. That is evolution. However, is it also progress?
Building the Social Enterprise
"Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great. Technology can accelerate a transformation, but technology cannot cause a transformation." Jim Collins. Good to Great.
Change is easy: just don't do it
In life and in business, agility is a major advantage. However, in life it seems to come more or less naturally, while in business it seems an impossible dream. Some thoughts on change.
From social strategy to social media
In order to really achieve great things, we sometimes have to take a step back. We have to reconsider our options. Great things rarely come naturally. They are planned. The same goes in the social enterprise.
Hyperconnected environments have tendency evolving towards uniformity since maintaining many disparate views adds too much complexity. The net result will be a preference for average and a commoditization of opinions.
Can technology build community?
While revelling about the marvels of a given tool, we often tend to forget that every tool will be used ?in context? and that, in most cases, the presence of the right context will prove to be more important than the choice of the right tool. Also in a network economy, this rule still holds.
In business, most investment decisions are based upon a Return on Investment (ROI) analysis. This is OK as long as the assessment of the potential outcome can indeed be made in a realistic and objective way. Otherwise it simply becomes a leap of faith or the false excuse for not investing.
Serendipity is not a business model
Enterprise social networks reach their full potential when there is broad acceptance, because then, the potential for unexpected ideas or making new discoveries is highest. However, in order to reach broad acceptance, there must also be basic value.
