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Enterprise 2.0

  • Going social: could Twitter replace email?
    Blog Entry
    20/09/2011 - 1:30pm

    In the fourth instalment of our 'Going social' series in our monthly online magazine Insight, CIMAsphere blogger and FCMA Linda Cheung weighs up the merits of Twitter over email. Could 'microblogging" services like Twitter usurp the centrality of email to business by offering a more effective communication toolset?

  • Enterprise 2.0 meets accountancy and finance
    Blog Entry
    17/06/2011 - 4:21pm

    This week saw the issues and opportunities raised by Enterprise 2.0 land squarely in the field of vision of management accountants as CIMA's Enterprise Web 2.0 event took place at the Microsoft London offices. Leading experts and practitioners in the enterprise 2.0 and cloud accounting space shared insights, and new research into the topic was unveiled.

  • Can Enterprise 2.0 technologies drive value and cut costs?
    Discussion topic
    31/05/2011 - 4:48pm

    Hi all,

    In advance of our free half-day conference on Enterprise Web 2.0 on the afternoon of Monday 13th June 2011 at the Microsoft offices in London, I wanted to open up the discussion to anyone who is interested, whether you can attend the event or not...

  • Enterprise 2.0: promise and reality check
    Blog Entry
    23/05/2011 - 10:57am

    Cometh the "Web 2.0" revolution and it wasn't long before "Enterprise 2.0" was going to transform the way business was done. The "how" was a little less clear, however...

    The Promise

    The main arguments were that:

    •  The new technologies would streamline existing business processes

    •  Better user ergonomics would increase productivity on a minute by minute basis

    •  Higher levels of connectedness would allow:

  • Social media and Business Intelligence – challenge or advantage?
    Blog Entry
    18/05/2011 - 11:31am

    Social media is a rapidly-expanding technology which is generating a radically different way of doing business.

    However, as we have read via Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock”, our inability to keep up with and adapt to rapid changes in technology can leave us all left behind and unable to benefit from it.

    •    Is social media a Marmite product which we either love or loathe ?
    •    Is this technology only for young people to benefit from?

  • Enterprise 2.0 - a road with many potholes
    Blog Entry
    16/05/2011 - 11:11am

    Some people believe the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 can go a long way towards not only solving problems but delivering value. First coined as an expression by Andrew McAfee, Enterprise 2.0 has been defined as:

  • What is the best business use for Web 2.0 technologies?
    Poll
    05/10/2009 - 4:16pm
    Marketing
    46% (18 votes)
    Research and development
    13% (5 votes)
    Creating operational efficiencies
    38% (15 votes)
    Other
    0% (0 votes)
    Cannot see a business use for Web 2.0
    3% (1 vote)
    Total votes: 39
  • More than enthusiasm for web 2.0
    Blog Entry
    04/10/2009 - 2:11pm

    A few months, and a lot of desk research ago I began to get a bit ticked off with articles or websites or conferences that promised to discuss the return on investment of organisations' use of web 2.0. They just did not deliver.