Comments on: More on the Facebookisation of the enterprise

By: Cisco on Flexible Working « That Marwood Chap

Cisco on Flexible Working « That Marwood Chap — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:45:10 +0000

[...] financially and socially, is the idea outlined by JP Rangaswami in his posts on the Facebookisation of the Enterprise[2]. More than providing usable kit for employees to use for work and play, it proposes a [...]

By: Synesthesia

Synesthesia — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:32:17 +0000

[...] More on the Facebookisation of the enterprise – confused of calcuttaLet the people at the edge build what they want, within a 21st century enabling framework.rangaswami enterprise2.0 future_of_IT [...]

By: JP

JP — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:57:36 +0000

Wow. Thanks a lot, fascinating study. Rgds

By: John (@Guehenno)

John (@Guehenno) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:28:15 +0000

Hi JP – Accenture have just published a really good study that backs up to an uncanny degree the kind of thinking you outlined in this post:

http://www.accenture.com/Global/Research_and_Insights/By_Role/HighPerformance_IT/CIOResearch/Millennials.htm

Disclaimer – I don’t work for Accenture, I used to, but now work for Amdocs (I like to keep in touch with Accenture’s research though as it was always pretty impressive)

Great stuff
john

By: nik sargent

nik sargent — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:27:09 +0000

features and capabilities yes – but don’t emulate facebook’s robustness, availability, user interface or scant regard for users when implementing changes. These are perfect examples of how not to do it.

By: Bill Barnett

Bill Barnett — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:29:45 +0000

What I really REALLY like about this post is how applied and practical it is. And that you’ve boiled down revolutionary capabilities into such concrete and deliverable chunks. You sure you meant to post this on your blog and not use it as a business plan for a new venture?

And I agree with James’ point above: this kind of open, collaborative environment is likely to be a major help in attracting the best talent. Like the “free soft drinks and foosball tables” of the dotcom bubble startups. Only with much bigger impact.

It would be interesting to explore at greater length how this kind of approach could make the organization’s walls more permeable — wait, that sounds too obvious, let me explain what I mean… Corporations today still run this binary “you work for us, we trust you completely” or “you don’t work for us, please go away” mentality. Internet email has eroded that boundary a bit, but you can still see it aggressively expressed in firewalls that block external IM, teamsites that are intranet only, etc…

With the approach you’ve outlined there could be lots of interesting gradations of access and collaboration, beyond the simple we’ve hired you/we haven’t hired you boolean that rules today’s world.

Hmmm….

By: Facebooked Organizations? | BlogHalt.com (Pre-Launch)

Facebooked Organizations? | BlogHalt.com (Pre-Launch) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:11:46 +0000

[...] he says: Was I talking about Facebook? Or was I talking about the IT department? Which brings me to my [...]

By: PaulM

PaulM — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:19:28 +0000

Don’t we just need a tool which can be implemented within the firewall that is reliable in many ways and scalable?

Then some add-on to make it semi-permeable in a custom way that can be tuned according to the level of risk that each corporation can bear.

By: confused of calcutta >> More on the Facebookisation of the enterprise « Carl's Notepad

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:55:04 +0000

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By: Carl Haggerty

Carl Haggerty — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:26:27 +0000

i love this post. i like the concept and i like the implications on IT departments to actually understand the nature of the business itself.

I will be following your thinking and will post some similar thought on my blog over teh coming weeks