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Enterprise 2.0, SoA and the Freeform Advantage

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Andrew Mc Afee, who first mentioned the term Enterprise 2.0 to me on December 1st 2005, provides a definition:Now, since I was the first to write extensively about Enterprise 2.01 I feel I’m entitled to define it:

Enterprise 2.0 is the use of freeform social software within companies.

‘Freeform’ in this case means that the software is most or all of the following:

Optional

Free of up-front workflow

Egalitarian, or indifferent to formal organizational identities

Accepting of many types of data

‘Social’ means that there’s always a person on at least one end of the wire with Enterprise 2.0 technologies.  With wikis, prediction markets, blogs, del.icio.us, and other Web 2.0 technologies with clear enterprise applications people are doing all the interacting and providing some or all of the content; the IT is just doing housekeeping and/or bookkeeping.

I’m in agreement, and find it easier to be than naming debates of the past (and reminiscent at my first stab at naming: “Social Software adapts to its environment, instead of requiring its environment to adapt to softwareâ€�).

If there is debate, it will be on two fonts: the role of organizational identities (Egalitarian) or an emaphasis on technology over social dynamics.  Mc Afee focuses on the second, that of Enterprise 2.0 vs. SoA:

Full post is on my blog…

Ross le 22.05.06 à 19:28 dans Wikisphère -
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