Conscious Capitalism: Creating a New Paradigm for Business

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, posted a very interested topic in your blog. “Capitalism: Creating a New Paradigm for Business“. 

The topic is Conscious Capitalism and you must read it with your mind open to the possibilities inherent in his ideas. The essay is long and it may take extended time and concentration on your part to read. However, the ideas he articulates there are important ideas and they deserve to be read by an intelligent and critical audience.

Applications for wikis inside organizations

Project Management – Wikis are excellent tools for managing a wide variety of project types. They provide a single place for updates on project activities, can be readily accessed by relevant people outside the organization (with permission) and provide updates via RSS to project participants. Maintaining minutes from meeting from meetings is very easily done on a wiki.

Reference material - You can use wikis to create policies, procedures, HR information, technical support information, knowledge bases, sales documentation, and so on.

Collaborative document creation – The creation of many documents involves multiple authors or reviewers. Wikis provides a simple and ready platform to enable this. Different levels of permission can be established for participants to view and update the document, and full version history can be kept to show who made which amendments, and to roll these back if necessary.

Client relationship management – Wikis, sometimes combined with blogs, can provide an easy way of ensuring that team members are literally ‘on the same page’ in dealing with the client.

Collaboration with external parties – As work increasingly happens across organizational boundaries, an array of collaboration spaces and other tools have arisen to facilitate collaboration with clients, suppliers, and partners. Wikis provide an easy tool to provide external visibility of projects activities and the ability for others to contribute, while maintaining security and control over updates.

Source: Ross Dawson

What Is Enterprise 2.0?

I found a good definition of Enterprise 2.0 and decided to share. It is from the E2.0 Conference.

Here it is….

The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable contextual, agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.

Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Enterprise 2.0 makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity and agility.

Source: Enterprise 2.0 2009

Enterprise 2.0 Conference

This week the Enterprise 2.0 Conference is taking place. It’s the leading event for business and IT professionals who want challenge the status quo and lead the charge to Enterprise 2.0. If you are a E2.0 enthusiastic as I am, you must visit both the web site and the blog of the event.

A True Story of Enterprise 2.0

Stephen Jagger, CEO of Ubertor (web pages for real estate professionals), Reachd (web marketing training courses) and Outsourcing Things Done (high level virtual assistants), spoke to a group of entrepreneurs of the San Francisco Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) at Samovar Tea House at the Metreon in San Francisco. Click the link below to check the summary of his presentation in which he talks about each of the tools he uses and provides an explanation of the value it brings to his business. It is amazing!!!

Source: Socialmedia.biz

When Consumers Help, Ads Are Free

An ad for T-Mobile had people dancing at the Liverpool Street Station in London last January as part of a campaign around the slogan “Life’s for Sharing”.

Advertisers have been shifting growing portions of their budgets online for years. But the popularity of social networking and other Web 2.0 phenomena are helping them use consumers to spread the word for them, allowing them to cut down on paid advertising.

Source: NYTimes

Web 2.0 and Generation Y

The second wave of the Internet revolution, often called Web 2.0, has had an enormous impact on the way we interact with each other online and the ways we access and use information.   This is particularly so for Generation Y, the generation born after 1980, who were born into a high-tech, digital world, and who are now entering the workforce in large numbers. Generation Y employees communicate differently than their baby boomer or Generation X bosses, and they have different expectations about what constitutes an exciting and worthwhile work environment, demanding new ways of working.

Web 2.0 is enabling the development of new tools and applications that are making such change possible.

Source: http://www.managementlab.org/events/innovation-workplace