Is IT Collaboration an Unnatural Act: Part 4

In the last post and post before that, I examined a real life case study of a team collaborating using Web 2.0 tools.  Now I want to review the lessons learned from that experiment.

Many (most?) busy people working on a team with deadlines for deliverables will wait until the deadline is really close, and then [...]

Is IT Collaboration an Unnatural Act: Part 3

I started discussing the organizational change implications of collaboration a couple of posts back, then introduced a specific case study in the last post.  Now I want to pick up that case study and look at how it played out.
The team rapidly fell into two camps - the enthusiasts (4 people) and the resistors (4 [...]

Is IT Collaboration an Unnatural Act: Part 2

 
I posted recently on collaboration perhaps being an unnatural act for some activities in some types of organization.  I want to come back to this topic and look at it through the lens of one team’s experiment with a new IT-enabled (Web 2.0) approach to collaboration.  We will discuss the results and potential implications of this experiment.  [...]

Is IT Collaboration an Unnatural Act?

Much of the excitement around Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and social networking as it penetrates corporations lies in the power of collaboration.   There a many great tools out there that enable collaboration - in its many different forms.  And there are many communities out there that want to collaborate.  And then there are IT [...]

New Year’s Resolutions for Reaching Level 3

 
Some suggestions for IT leaders who are determined to drive up the business value and impact of Information Technology during 2008:

I resolve to be more effective in raising awareness of the potential for information technology to drive business growth.  I will bring ‘marketing thinking’ to my IT organization, and focus on improving our business communications.  [...]

Organizational Change Part 1

In my first post, I mentioned my trepidation at entering the blogosphere.  What I am calling “trepidation” others might refer to as “resistance to change.”  Is change resistance real?  Normal? Inevitable?  How does it play out in climbing the IT maturity and value curve?
Organizational change management is perhaps the slipperiest of subjects.  It’s been heavily [...]

IT’s Role In Leading the Way to Web 2.0?

My colleague Susan Scrupski (ITSinsider), who has taught me so much about the blogosphere and social media (and helped me see that I still have much to learn!)  just introduced me to a fascinating blog: innovation playgroundpublished by Idris Mootee.  All his posts are informative and some quite stimulating, raising important questions and sharing insights [...]

Language and Business-IT Maturity

Language has some interesting relationships to Business-IT Maturity.  As a management consultant, one of the things I have to do is quickly calibrate a client’s situation - sometimes, in just minutes (e.g., with a new, or potential client).  I’ve had some version of the Business-IT Maturity model in the back of my head for many [...]