events - Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Comments
Enterprise 2.0 Summit: speaking, discount code, and pre-session in Paris
I will be speaking on Wednesday Oct. 11th at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Frankfurt. To register, use the discount code “coreedges200”, valid until Oct 14 with a discount of 200 EUR on all tickets. After that you will get a normal discount of 100 EUR — for all tickets at all price levels … means 390 EUR until Oct 21, 590 EUR until Nov 2 etc.
The event promises to be fruitful. If you want to connect while in Francfort, by all means get in touch. I’m also trying to organize some kind of a pre-session in Paris. More info here soon.
Title: Enterprise 2.0 Summit
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Link out: Click here
Description:
How-to Leverage the Power of Feedback and the Law of Participation
Participation as a means of gathering feedback from all parts of the organisation is a key element of Enterprise 2.0 projects. This panel focuses on how to best achieve this. Experts and practitioners discuss project structuring and feedback mechanisms, plus the pitfalls to avoid.
Speaker:
Julien Le Nestour, IT Innovation Manager, Schlumberger
Moderator:
Lee Bryant, Founder and Director, Headshift Ltd.
Start Date: 2009-11-10
End Date: 2009-11-12
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by Julien Le Nestour
Macro Principles - Friday, June 26, 2009 - Comments
Core Digital Infrastructure Technologies improve exponentially without stabilizing
The release of the Shift Index from the Deloitte Center for the Edge is an excellent occasion to come back on the foundations of the various Shifts that are currently redefining the way businesses have to operate.
The core digital infrastructure technologies (Computing, Storage, Networking) are showing an exponential increase of their cost/performance ratio, and there are no signs of stabilization. This exponential and continuous improvement in performance directly enables almost all the other shifts, most notably the accelerating pace of change. What is crucial however, is both the sheer scale of improvement and a pace which shows no sign of stabilizing in the near future, contrary to past groundbreaking infrastructures:
The exponentially advancing price/performance capability of computing, storage, and bandwidth is contributing to an adoption rate for the digital infrastructure that is two to five times faster than previous infrastructures, such as electricity and telephone networks.1
The Foundation Index
The team has defined a Foundation Index that “quantifies the first wave of the Big Shift, which involves the fast-moving, relentless evolution of a new digital infrastructure and shifts in global public policy that have reduced barriers to entry and movement.“2
References
- The Shift Index, Deloitte Center for the Edge, John Hagel, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison [↩]
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Strategies - Monday, October 5, 2009 - Comments
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Safaricom is revolutionizing what currency means in Kenya with M-PESA. A true, radical innovator, in an industry characterized by many fossilized players in developed countries. Will I ever see an “Enterprise 2.0″ case study on Safaricom? Yes, if they deploy a wiki, social networking platform, etc. Otherwise, no. How crazy is that? Their combination of IT tools, culture, organizational design, etc. achieves radical innovation. Yet, this combination is of no interest for the wider E2.0 community (at least not that I know of). Why? Because they don’t use, in a disclosed way, tools labelled “2.0″.
Enterprise 2.0 is fundamentally defined with the tools used, but decorrelated from performance. It’s time to recenter it.
Ask any one in the so-called “Entreprise 2.0″ sphere what is an E2.0 case study, and you’ll get this: how organization A implements technology B. Even if it’s GM implementing wikis (honestly, WTF?). Well, the case studies I would like to see are more like this: what new/E2.0 technologies, blended with which organizational design, are used by radical innovators like Safaricom, who is redefining currency in Kenya? And if the answer is nothing, or at least nothing explicitly labelled 2.0, you’ve found yourself a very interesting questioning path.
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Start-Up musings - Thursday, June 4, 2009 - Comments
How can Prezi penetrate the enterprise market?
“Nice content — awesome presentation! What did you use to make it?!”
That’s what everyone who sees my BRITE presentation asks me. It’s a new service called Prezi. And it’s insanely great — the minute I saw it I had to have it, no questions asked. So, for the first time in half a decade, I found myself doing the unthinkable: paying for software.
As Umair’s experience illustrates, Prezi is an amazing piece of technology. The Hungarian company has a great team, got a lot of press and recently set its sight on the US market. The service is obviously geared towards professionals: individuals or small companies, not consumers or large companies. I have embedded an example below (the embed feature is still in the works, so this is an example of no particular subject)
So how could Prezi best enter the Enterprise market? I don’t have the time to do a full strategy analysis, but here are the key points I would explore more deeply for such an expansion:
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