"rney towards the social enterprise revolution.
At CeBIT Webciety we have discussed the results of a working group that elaborated a set of 13 key statements. The statements consist of project issues that have to be worked on in order to advance the social enterprise initiatives in the organizational and cultural perspective. The statements are structured and related to the reciprocal relation of three key factors of the project: people, business/organization and technology. Between each of these factors the working group identified some critical friction points that have to be considered and to be worked on in order for the project advancement."
Although austerity drives have led to a focus on process automation, this isn't producing the scale of improvements needed in employee productivity,
Any organization spending less than this is seriously lagging, whilst those pushing hardest for improvements are allocating two-thirds of all IT spending to the tools that are really capable of transforming the way users work.
One of the biggest surprises in our latest research is the growing impact of collaboration on productivity,
People know that work is becoming more collaborative, but the surprise is that 50% of successful performance now depends on this -- where 10 years ago 80% of the outcome of any task would have been down to the individual. It is the magnitude of the shift that we didn't expect.
Things change so quickly now that organizations really need to be reviewing their plans quarterly, and ensuring they can adapt them if priorities have altered.
their lack of visibility on what IT users need to do their jobs effectively
Who in IT really understands the end users and how they get work done?' there was often an uncomfortable silence
It may require the involvement of HR and other disciplines -- in the form of cross-functional support -- as users learn to work more collaboratively, sharing knowledge and ideas more readily, and replicating best practices.
Some of this may be hosted in the cloud; also users will be able to find their own apps, which will simply plug in to the company infrastructure. IT will own the integration and the security, but will be much less focused on the interface to users,
executives are demanding 20% more productivity from their employees, yet that 55% of workers feel unable to handle the stress of their jobs for much longer
More than any other department, IT has a crucial part to play in helping businesses meet this demand, CEB said.
About what the business models of internet companies should be. I agree with this, new technologies and organizations should be applied to startups themselves, reducing drastically employees, charges and costs. Then the margin and the leverage with revenues will increase. They are the best business models, and every startup manager should be aware of it. Essential.
of course, this must be projected to traditional companies also, this is what we can do using enterprise 2.0 technologies and organisations.
A true zero-email change in the way at Atos. For the first time a large company will (perhaps) succeed in this direction. Anouncing this from 2000. Great to see that they embraced the challenge, and the top management is at the same time the makers and gives example.