Tonight on the HR Happy Hour show we will discuss Enterprise 2.0 with Professor Andrew McAfee, the person that first used the term 'Enterprise 2.0' (back in 2006), and the author of the essential book on the subject 'Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools For Your Organization's Toughest Challenges'.
The show can be heard live starting at 8PM EDT - here, and using the player below, or via the call in number 646-378-1086.
What is Enterprise 2.0? Why is it sometimes simply passed off as 'Facebook for the Corporation', or simply as a diversion or distraction from the 'real' work of making products, delivering services, or simply keeping existing processes running? Why do many in HR shrug E2.0 off as another set of IT technologies that they would rather have nothing to do with?
Perhaps it is because for many, if not most, organizations the ability to continue to invent and produce products the market desires, or the skills and capabilities to deliver valuable and sought after services has become much more tied to the organization's capability in capturing and sharing knowledge, in connecting its people with each other (and the external community) more effectively, and in creating environments where ideas can be generated, and the best of these ideas lifted to the top.
These challenges that organizations are facing can be met by an ever growing class of collaborative tools and technologies, platforms that support, guide, and enhance all the things that the best people do naturally - create, share, enhance, and innovate. Any many organizations have begun to leverage these platforms internally, with more joining the ranks of 'Enterprise 2.0' converts every day.
But as we will talk about on the show, just deploying a fancy new collaboration platform inside an organization does not guarantee all the promise of E2.0 will immediately be realized. Considerations of the business issues that need solving, the relationships of the participating employees and groups, and the culture of the organization all need to be taken into account.
It is fashionable to talk about these kinds of transformative projects as having little to do with technology, but rather to classify them as change management efforts, with success mostly to do with understanding and influencing people's behavior in the organization.
If that is true, then who in the organization is better positioned than Human Resources to define, architect, and help lead these projects to success?
And what better place than the HR Happy Hour show for Human Resources professionals to learn more about Enterprise 2.0 from the person who coined the term, and authored the only essential book on the concept?
I hope you can join us tonight for what should be an interesting and informative show.
