Constellation Research blogged earlier this month about the issues that folks are seeing with social media adoption. Of course, as constellation research says, “People” are at the heart of any technology adoption process. Let’s summarize the info that Constellation provides. First, Constellation argues that there are five leading barriers to adoption, 1) Poorly defined incentives, 2) Increase in […]
McKinsey has published a report that illustrates the relationship between social technology use and organizational performance, with some interesting results. McKinsey looks at organizations as achieving different levels of social networking: developing, internally networked, externally networked, and fully networked. The names are pretty self explanatory. McKinsey found significant, positive correlations between the presence of social business […]
Well, now that the newspaper of record, the NY Times, has weighed in on social software, we can now say that social software inside the firewall is mainstream. The article, unfortunately, is very shallow, and only serves to reinforce stereotypes about social business. First, the article focuses most of its attention on Salesforce Chatter, which, while […]
There is a lot of buzz about the potential productivity gains of social software. Luiz Benitez tweeted a link to an article on The Province, which described a variety of situations where social software like IBM Connections was leading to perceived productivity gains. The examples cited in the article noted the increate in productivity that […]
Communications planning on projects takes up a major part of the PMBOK. Because traditional project management is based upon a philosophy of control, project managers are advised to develop and maintain a detailed project communications plan, with important formal communications defined and agreed to by project stakeholders. Having been involved in scores of projects as […]
Many people use the terms Social Project Management(SPM) and Project Management 2.0 (PM2.0) interchangeably. Heck, even wikipedia thinks they’re the same thing, but it’s wrong. While PM 2.0 focused primarily on enabling online collaboration within the team, and to a lesser extent with providing dashboards for reporting, and other basic project management automation, SPM’s focus […]
As work processes and products become more and more heavily focused on knowledge work and knowledge production, work has become less “observable”. Whereas in a physical production environment, the visible work product is the final work product itself, in information and knowledge work, the visible work product is often descriptions of the final work product, […]
Welcome to The Project Wall! After our great time meeting with folks at Lotusphere, and our continued discussions with customers and partners, we realized that there’s a great deal of confusion and questions about social business platforms, and social business applications. This blog is our attempt to both join and lead the conversation about social […]
