Im November findet das Gegenstück der DMS Expo für die E2.0 Welt statt, der Enterprise 2.0 Summit. Haben auf der DMS die Teilnehmer gezeigt welchen Vorteil 2.0 für ECM bringt erwarte ich auf dem Summit, dass die Gegenrichtung betrachtet wird. Frei nach dem Motto:  Man braucht sich gegenseitig.

Thorsten Zörner mit einem Rückblick auf die DMS Expo - incl. einer Lagebeschreibung des Marktes der ECM-Anbieter die mittlerweile 2-0-ige Elemente in ihr Portfolio aufnehmen (ja, wir alle wissen dass E 2.0 kein Produkt ist ...) - und obigem Zitat.

Die Erwartung an den E20SUMMIT teile ich so auch - und ich bin mir auch sicher dass wir dort neben innovativen und weiterführenden Diskussionen in erster Linie über Umsetzung und Implementierung reden werden - ganz im Sinne von "collaborative performance". Sprich - das Planen (oder sagen wir besser das Träumen) von Luftschlössern die auf grüner Wiese entstehen wird nicht das beherrschende Thema sein, sondern die Frage wie man aufbauend auf den bestehenden Kontext am besten vorgeht. ECM spielt hier eine wichtige Rolle - und ja, man braucht sich gegenseitig.

While working remotely may seem like old hat to many of us, there is a lot that goes into rolling out a telecommuting program, particularly in larger organizations. It requires the support of management, IT staff and the prospective telecommuters themselves.

while quite weak on the technology, adoption and people side this piece focusses on "iifehacks" for organizational implementation and is thus an interesting read ...

Interessante Initiative - wenn es gelingt deutlich zu machen dass Lotus mehr zu bieten hat als Mail und Kalender hat es sich gelohnt. Und es ist sympathisch dass die Botschaft nicht als "klassische Marketingkampagne" und im Gießkannenprinzip, sondern in den interaktiveren Social Media Kanälen gepflegt werden soll:

"IBM wird auf vielfältigen [Kommunikationskanälen] mit Endanwendern kommunizieren, die Trends setzen, Entscheidungen im Bereich Collaboration, Gestaltung des Tools am Arbeitsplatz beeinflussen und Vordenker in der Nutzung neuer Technologien sind."

Da fühle ich mich auch angesprochen - habe mich registriert und bin gespannt auf den Innovation Jam nächste Woche.

Alex im Interview mit Hallo Welt - "über seine Vorstellungen des Arbeitsplatzes der Zukunft, wie der Generationenwechsel miteinspielt und was Unternehmen tun sollten, um den Startschuss nicht zu verpassen"

Das Podcast-Format gefällt mir - gefunden via dem neuen Twitter-(Corporate)-Account von HalloWelt.

Technology pundit Mike Elgan says we're evolving a new paradigm for the workplace as technology makes it easier for white collar workers to engage in location-independent employment. These "digital nomads" will be able to travel the world or go to locations where there are partners or customers for both personal reasons and on behalf of the company.

Found via Experientia ("Technology will allow us to become digital nomads")

Yes, the online, networked generation, working in geographically dispersed teams must and will make broad use of collaboration tools for work purposes. And as these tools are becoming cheaper it helps too (now, I doubt whether we will really see low-cost web conferencing as soon as Mike Elgan says - yet it's no problem, teamworking with fellow digital nomads is probably a bit easier than regular corporate collaborative work ...)

What is the intention? Well - the whole E2.0 SUMMIT is about bonding the European community around the E2.0 topic. Therefore we are already provide the weblog at blog.enterprise2open.com as well a newly Posterous blog at e20summit.posterous.com. All the actions are aggregated on our FB page - with that we hope to provide some value to the E2.0 discussion.

Facebook page to both connect the E20SUMMIT community and collect information and discussions about the conference.

More at Ross' blog and at Read-Write Web, where a thoughtful Aaron Fulkerson weighs in on the question of RESTful APIs et al.

Much remains to be tested and evaluated, albeit it sounds promising - Oliver Marks blogs:

"The ‘unbundling’ of the microblogging appliance is possible because of Socialtext’s web oriented architecture; the presentation layer is built on their REST api using javascript but can be uncoupled to allow modularization. Extensive customization of the entire suite to meet an enterprise’s specific needs is possible because of the same api and presentation layer logic."

These are the slides I used yesterday at a workshop talk at T-Systems SI in Stuttgart. I got invited to talk about the potentials of Web 2.0 for corporate uses, Enterprise 2.0 and implementation. Turned out to be a great event with +30 people listening and discussing vividly – thanks.

Well, when I initially met with T-System SI’s Franz Binder and Marcus Dreher for arranging the get-together I promised (or threatened them …) a helter-skelter ride through the field. Now, after some fiddling it turned out to be both an invitation to join the bandwagon (and T-Systems they are, I wish the team all the best with QBase) and a half-joking warning about ill-fated past knowledge management efforts and some related implementation tasks (and pitfalls) to understand if one wants to enjoy the ride

I have written a bit on the potential for new information silos within enterprise 2.0. Telligent recognizes this. Rob Howard said, “Telligent’s strategy is to provide a platform where social computing, enterprise technology and traditional communication come together to break down information silos and enhance measurability both inside and outside the organization.”  We discussed how tools should be independent of information and that Telligent does not attempt to replace tools such as email but allows you to work with them better in an integrated manner. You can drag and drop content from sources like YouTube into Telligent and add widgets from tools like Twitter in the same manner.

As Tom Davenport recently wrote you need both old school and new school capabilities (see Mixing Old and New School Communication). Tom referred to this as 1.5 with a sense of humor and said it is greater than 2.0. Tom wrote that asking which is better Web 1.0 or Web 2.0 is actually a false dichotomy. They complement each other.  I would agree. Enterprise 2.0 brings a new dimension but it does not replace many traditional enterprise apps anymore than TV replaced the radio or the telephone replaced in person conversation. Telligent has correctly recognized this and designed for integration. 

From the perspective of "collaborative performance" the extensive measurement tools and approaches they push are very interesting - we all know there's a need for metrics (Telligent promises "buzz metrics" too, and while I doubt that they can really measure the informal buzz, it's 1. a nice approach and 2. a unique selöling proposition for this suite).

Here is the thing. ARIS is not one of the many companies running around selling snake oil about executable UML and so on. It is the real deal. Every software company with a modeling tool loves to say they are all about the Business Process Analyst. The truth is inevitably a lot more prosaic. Quite simply – there is no community of people with business modeling skills associated with a runtime environment in the IT industry. But IDS Scheer certainly has a community associated with its modeling language and tools.

Which brings us neatly to SAP.

SAP is by far the dominant player in European business process management. Not in modeling though – that’s where ARIS plays. The people that analyse and model the business are not the same people deploying and managing ERP systems and related applications. Why not though?

James is analyzing the plans to merge Software AG and IDS Scheer - and doing this with wit and insight. While I doubt that "Germans buy german software" alone because it's german, he's got me thinking about the impliocations for SAP, right.