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"How Can Web Technologies Help Enterprises with Innovation Management?"

New McKinsey research shows that a payday could be arriving faster than expected. A new class of company is emerging-one that uses collaborative Web 2.0 technologies intensively to connect the internal efforts of employees and to extend the organization's reach to customers, partners, and suppliers. We call this new kind of company the networked enterprise. Results from our analysis of proprietary survey data show that the Web 2.0 use of these companies is significantly improving their reported performance.

blueKiwi 2009 is an enterprise social software for people-centric organizations to create powerful and secure social networks and collaborative environments with partners, customers and colleagues. Integrating familiar features of Web 2.0 such as wikis, blogs, forums, RSS and tagging, blueKiwi introduces a new and innovative way of getting things done.

They're looking for evaluation partners

Interesting discussion on the difference between Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter) and Collaboration Networks (Wiki, Enterprise Social Software)

Good introductory slideshow on the subject

Future Changes is Stewart Mader. He wrote the book on wiki adoption, and he has led or advised enterprise-wide wiki deployments in Fortune 500 companies, universities, nonprofits, small and medium size companies.

Recommened by Jenny Ambrozek

The focus is technology developments but a good resource if you are interested in industry trends and what's new from leading enterprise software providers

Jeff Patmore, Head of strategic university research at BT Group talks to Professor Harry Scarbrough before his presentation to WBS Alumni on 19 January 2009. How have 'Web 2.0' tool been adopted in large organisations? What has been the impact on the bottom line and on the employees?

"Continual learning is integral to the human experience. People who can learn faster and better than others tend to do well in life. The same is true for successful organizations."

"It is somewhat safe to predict that AI will continue to be at the top of the hype cycle in 2018. But the following 51 predictions also envision it becoming more practical and useful, automating some jobs and augmenting many others, combining machine learning and big data for fresh insights, with chatbots proliferating in the enterprise."

Many of ReadWriteWeb's readers are old hands at Twitter, but the service gets thousands of new users every day. That includes a lot of folks who suddenly need to use Twitter as part of their job. If you're just being introduced to the joys of Twitter (or introducing it to another user), here's a short and friendly primer on what you need to know about using the site.