Are you pounding your head against a brick wall when it comes trying to move your Enterprise 2.0 plans forward. You’re not alone.
In this video Stowe Boyd interviews Charlene Li (co-author of Groundswell). Use it to re-energize your Enterprise 2.0 plans. Some of the enlightening quotes are:
“it won’t go very far without an executive champion”
“when you put social technologies in place it starts tearing down the way that power is shared”
“when you give the power to people to post into a wiki or write a blog, [...] and if you let them do it freely, that diminishes the gate-keeper role. [...] and if you think about the way that organizations are laid out, its usually a bunch of silos, and social technologies puts a big stick of dynamite in that”
wondered why we are finding blogs so little used. “I think its because people don’t like blogging. It’s hard to find time to sit down and compose your thoughts. [...] It asks people to communicate in a very different way. [...] I suggest to executives that they not blog, but they sure talk a lot, so I suggest they video themselves.”
Charlene thinks that enterprise Twitter-like tools will displace a lot of email. “It supplements the natural communication already going on, like IM, which many enterprises have already adopted.”
Each year the amount of information created in the enterprise, paper and digital combined, grows faster than 65%.
Non-productive information work, such as reformatting documents or reentering documents into computers, consumed more than $1.5 trillion in U.S. salaries last year.
Survey respondents spend as much as 26% of their time trying to manage information overload.
Respondents split their time evenly between dealing with paper and digital information, but 71% prefer to deal with digital information.
The amount of time U.S. information workers spent last year managing paper-driven information overload cost $460 billion in salaries.
Reducing the time wasted dealing with information overload by 15% could save a company with 500 employees more than $2 million a year.
“Social media makes listening easier. But listening is scary because we might not like what we hear.”
Ethan Yarbrough explores the topic of social media and says its better to be engage in the conversation because it is happening whether you are there or not What do you tell a company that fears social media.
If you really want to listen, then you need to be prepared for what your customers and employess are going to say. You might not be able to deliver what they want but you are able to meet them on their turf.
IBM Shortcuts is a short weekly podcast that is easy to digest and targets consumers and business alike. They cover a variety of topics. I recent one covered wikis. If you haven’t heard about wikis or how you could use one in your business, then take quick listen to these two Shortcuts ”How to use wikis at work” (part 1 and part 2).
