We’re at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week, and had the opportunity to present at the unconference portion - Enterprise2Open. Several folks asked for the deck, which I’ve posted below. You can follow us on Twitter here and here if you want to see what we’re up to while we’re here.

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Oliver Marks blogs about “What is Enterprise 2.0” and what E2.0 means to the corporate IT department - a truly important definition. Getting IT on board the E2.0 bandwagon is the difference between waiting a year for social computing to catch on in your organization and waiting much, much longer. Marks writes that, “At this [...]

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Andrew McAfee reflects on a dinner with Eric Schmidt during last week’s Management 2.0 conference (I’m excited to read the findings; it looks like they get posted later this month). McAfee’s question to Scmidt: What about Google’s management style is so powerful, yet still transferable to other organizations?
“They can learn to listen. Listening to each [...]

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IT Project Failures has been examining the all to frequent phenomenon of government IT project failures. Central to the analysis - typically opaque bureaucracies shy away from revealing their internal machinations, especially when it has to do with something as complex as large IT projects.
What can government leaders can do to improve the situation? 

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In “In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?”, Malcom Gladwell describes how Intellectual Ventures works to bring together really smart people from different disciplines -physicians, physicists, inventors - in the hopes of generating a vast number of profitable patents. The company puts a group of creative, inventive people in the same room and [...]

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