The K-factor Lesson: How Social Ecosystems Grow (Or Not)
Recently for some work that I'm doing I had to revisit the techniques for creating successful online social environments. This is a surprisingly deep and nuanced topic that we as Web application...
View ArticleOn Web Strategy
My old Web 2.0 blog is finally closing due to hosting issues so I’m moving the conversation here going forward. I’m also relocating my large library of old posts and visuals to this blog over the next...
View ArticleExceeding the Benefits of Complexity? A Fractal Model for the Social Business...
Over the weekend my friend and industry colleague JP Rangaswami wrote an insightful post that pondered how we have gone about delivering on customer experiences as connected to our back-end...
View ArticleAre We Building Businesses? Or Are We Building Platforms? Yes.
A couple of days ago I saw a tweet go by from Michael Cote, referencing some work I did a few years back that tried to articulate the full notion of where Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) was going. I had...
View ArticleTransforming the Enterprise As We Know It
As I was reading David F. Carr’s latest piece on The Brainyard today, it drove home again for me some of the practically insurmountable challenges that many organizations have in avoiding the growing...
View ArticleConsumerization: Why the Workplace of Tomorrow Looks Like The Internet
The title of this post is almost right. The workplace of tomorrow will look like a lot of things actually, including the Internet; just not a whole lot like the way our organizations look today. For...
View ArticleThe Web vs. Mobile Apps: How iOS and Android Are Disrupting The Open Internet
The battle is well under way but I find that most people barely notice it. As Shelly Freierman of the New York Times observed earlier this week, as developers put the finishing touches on the millionth...
View ArticleWhat’s Coming Up in Social Business, CoIT, Open APIs, and More
While 2011 was a busy year, I’m expecting 2012 to be a breakout year for a number of key subject areas that I work with closely. The run up of social business over the last five years has been...
View ArticleEnterprises and Ecosystems: Why Digital Natives Are Dethroning The Old Guard
Why is it that so many traditional companies with an enormous wealth of assets largely fail to transform them for the digital era? By assets here, I mean established customer base, closely held...
View ArticleImagining the Future of the Enterprise
This afternoon at a workshop in Stuttgart, Germany at the KnowTech conference I explored our latest conception of the many transformative technology changes happening within our organizations today....
View ArticleHow We Gave Up Control Over The Social Web
A short but pithy piece over the weekend by Dave Winer titled “Why the Web 2.0 model is obsolete” got me thinking about where we’ve ended up with social media after nearly ten years. Blogs, wikis, and...
View ArticleDefining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014
Many of you know that over the last several years I’ve tried to make the case that most organizations are currently falling behind the advancing pace of technological change. That business is so...
View ArticleWhy the Underlying Laws of Cloud, Social, and Digital Business Matter
I’ve spent much of my Memorial Day Holiday here in the United States pondering the Red Queen effect vs. network effects, seminal laws of technology and business both, that are often held as gospel by...
View ArticleThe Long Game is Winning in Digital Ecosystems, and Other Global Tech Trends
I’ve traveled nearly 70,000 miles all over the world since the beginning of the year, talking with digital practitioners in the trenches. Most often these are passionate but often frustrated change...
View ArticleThe Building Blocks of Digital Transformation: Community, Tech, Business...
I’ve been making the argument lately that the single largest obstacle in successful digital transformation is change itself. Surprisingly, the arrival of new technology is generally not the large...
View ArticleWhat is Web3 and Why It Matters
I’ve waited a bit to weigh in on Web3, to see how it evolved and whether it actually took a meaningful and significant direction. While not exactly a new concept — many credit the term itself to...
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