At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston earlier this week, vendors and their platforms took center stage as the nascent market for social computing software continued to heat up. Technology is a key enabler – BearingPoint’s own firm-wide wiki is a good example – but keeping a close eye on the workforce issues tied up [...]

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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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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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Making good software is hard. Really hard. From my experience working with vendors, enterprise software is hard to get right. Good software companies learned a while ago that allowing their customers insight into their development process helps them make better software more quickly – creating a feedback loop makes customers see that their input is [...]

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Bertrand Duperrin blogged about The McKinsey Quarterly’s Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan. It’s an eye opener on how technology and globalization are creating an environment in which enterprises are motivated (or forced) to embrace innovation and individual creativity. These then become the way corporations compete and drive value, [...]

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