by Anthony J. Bradley | February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments
I am leading a significant 2009 Gartner case-based research effort around how clients are deploying social software and achieving business value. You may be familiar with Gartner’s “Cool Vendors” research. This case-based research will result in a series of “Cool Solutions with Social Software” published papers. We are anticipating that each report will include 5-6 [...]
Category: social applications Tags: Cases, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments
Dion Hinchcliffe has an excellent post “50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product” directed at the vendor side of Web 2.0. However many of the points are very salient for enterprises looking to deliver (build, buy, or join) a business relevant social application. Let’s do some quick tailoring of his list (you [...]
Category: social applications Tags: design, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 27, 2009 | 4 Comments
Just finished a conversation with a client and I see an interesting trend evolving. Interesting in that the emergence benefit from the social computing movement can and often does lead to a lack of enterprise agility. We need to distinguish between levels of agility. Individual agility, team agility, group agility, business unit agility, geographic region [...]
Category: social applications Tags: emergence, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 21, 2009 | Comments Off
I spent four hours recently with the CIO (and his team) of a large retailer discussing their strategy (or current lack thereof) for social applications. We had about 3 half hour prep calls for the session. After these prep calls I was under the impression they were too technology focused too early. It is always [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: Retail, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Andrea DiMaio with this post is trying to quell my excitement over Obama’s leadership in social software. He and I work together pretty closely on government and Web 2.0 (I focus more on the US while he covers the world). But I have to tell him that it won’t be easy to quell my excitement Definitely [...]
Category: social applications Tags: government, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
As I had expected (and hoped), President Elect Obama is employing social software to get the people involved in government. They have launched an idea engine to gather the best ideas the public has to offer for presentation to the president, as they say, in a briefing book like he gets from his named advisors. [...]
Category: social applications Tags: government, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 12, 2009 | Comments Off
The social software blogoshpere is teeming with the discussion over facebook banning pictures of breatfeeding mothers. InfoWorld has an amusing article on it. This is another great example of hubris. Just like the Digg user revolt of 2007, eBay with the Tit for Tat controversy, and facebook with their initial launch of Beacon, this is [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: governance, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
Yesterday I spoke to yet another large federal governmental organization about building a strategy for social software in anticipation of the new presidential administration. This is now an unmistakable trend. Over the past number of months several of the more leading edge federal departments have called me with the recognition that President Elect Obama’s enormous [...]
Category: social applications Tags: government, social applications
by Anthony J. Bradley | January 5, 2009 | Comments Off
A post in my colleague Tom Austin’s blog caught my attention. It is a quick take on Andrew MacAfee’s E2.0 Bullseye Model of strong and weak ties. In my experience there are a few big flaws in his bullseye model. First, it is an oversimplification (which admittedly fits well in a blog post and easy [...]
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Category: social applications Tags: social applications, strategy
by Anthony J. Bradley | December 31, 2008 | 3 Comments
Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite business book authors. He has a fantastic way of making me look at things differently or gain deeper insight into what I naturally took for granted. The beauty in the latter is that I often learn things that I can apply in many situations. In some instances when [...]
Category: social applications Tags: social applications
