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Shocking
News: Users Needed to Succeed
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On
August 4, Google announced that it suspended the development of Google Wave, and may limit
support to the end of 2010. What happened? Lack of "traction." Why?
The blogosphere is abuzz with 20/20 hindsight interpretations, but
there are at least two aspects:
- The drastic change of collaboration mode, after 30 years of
institutionalization of an e-mail-based culture, was too much too
soon.
- Google did not maintain the early enthusiasm of Oct.-Nov. 2009
among its pilot users -- it went silent after obtaining initial
feedback, instead of continuing to spur interest by adding the most
requested features via frequent updates.
In retrospect, it may be interesting to re-read my paper "Google Wave and the Future of
Collaboration" published by Cutter last February. If you are
not a client of Cutter, ask for a copy.
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More
on Web-Based Collaboration
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Picking
up on the above news and on Claude's paper, Daigo Tanaka provides
in his blog some very insightful remarks on "collaboration leveraged by
Information technology."
The August issue of the Cutter IT Journal, guest-edited by Joseph
Feller (Senior Lecturer at University College Cork) is entitled
"The Web as Platform." It will feature another paper by Claude on
"The Web as Collaboration
Platform," describing a recent case study of building an ad-hoc
collaboration environment in the cloud, as well as a glimpse into
the capabilities offered by Cisco Quad.
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Web
Content Management Tools Compared
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The
three most popular WCM tools that can be used by a small company or
an association (because of the low cost and simplicity), but may
also be appropriate for some needs of larger organizations, are
Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress. Many comparisons have
been published, but be careful to look at the dates of these
papers, as the tools evolve quickly. Also look at the potential
affiliation of the reviewer with one of the camps.
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Enterprise
Architecture Roadmapping
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For
a consulting engagement that is still in progress, we built an
outline of 26 activities to be performed to create an EA roadmap.
The specific client did not require all 26 steps, as they had done
extensive work to identify business drivers and strategies, and had
already created the conditions for IT-business alignment. Still,
the complete list may become a template for our EA practice and,
once the engagement is over and the "lessons learned" can be
integrated with the theory of this exercise, we will be looking to
publish those as a report.
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Research
on Collaborative Innovation
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Discussions
with two companies over the last month indicated that managing
innovation is still a big challenge. You need to identify promising
external ideas from all the "noise" that a Web crawler can produce;
add internally generated ideas; have an effective process to filter
ideas; give timely feedback to internal submitters; foster a
discussion with subject matter experts; provide marketing support
to evaluate the potential benefit of the retained ideas; and manage
the transition into a managed portfolio of innovation
projects.
Laboranova is a
European Union-funded project that has produced several prototype
tools for Web-based collaboration on innovation. These tools handle
different collaboration modes: brainstorming, games, sharing of
ideas through video, visual mapping, predictive markets, and
more.
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Seen
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"You need to have a common
understanding of what everyone means when speaking of Change
Management"
-- Stacy Goff, President of
the American Society for
the Advancement of Project Management (ASAPM),
in " Change Management:
Confusion or Success?"
"When people said 'we're TQM' and
somebody said 'no you're NOT,' there was no way to figure out who
was right, which means that the term meant nothing to begin with.
[...] I don't believe that is the case with agile and so my
recommendation is, start debunking people who falsely claim they
are agile."
-- "Bwtaylor" in response to a post claiming
that "Agile is dead"
because "everyone and their mother now claim to be Agile."
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