by Mark P. McDonald | May 9, 2013 | 7 Comments
What’s the difference between the two? On the surface they sound very similar, particularly for someone who had had experience with knowledge management. Both involve people using technology to access information. Both require individuals to create information that is intended for sharing. Both technologies profess support for collaboration. But as Monty Python might say: If [...]
Category: Social Media Social Organization Technology web 2.0 Tags: social media, Social Organization, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | October 10, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Organizations consist of people. How well the organization works depends on how these people interact and work together generally along either hierarchical or process lines. These lines define how the organization works, how it views opportunities and how it tackles challenges and issues. They also define how the organization manages itself from budgeting resources to [...]
Category: Management Social Media Social Organization web 2.0 Tags: Leadership, social media, Social Organization, Strategy and Planning, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | October 3, 2011 | 6 Comments
Personally we have never been more social. Online we use social media to connect with friends, share ideas, mobilize support and express our selves. Professionally we remain socially isolated behind firewalls and management’s concerns about relinquishing control while retaining responsibility. The irony is that while organizations are working feverishly to participate in social media marketing, [...]
Category: Book Review Leadership Management Social Media Social Organization Strategy web 2.0 Tags: CIO Leadership, social media, Social Organization, Strategy and Planning, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | April 4, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Saturday the Wall Street Journal featured a brief article in its ‘number of the week’ section — $1,700 per person. That was the amount calculated by Jeremy Greenwood and Karen A. Kopecky in a study conducted for the University of Pennsylvania and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Using econometric models, the two estimated the [...]
Category: Strategy Technology web 2.0 Tags: Business, CIO strategy, Value of IT
by Mark P. McDonald | February 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Dragonfly Effect is recommended as one of the better books to discuss how social media works and to get advice on how to think about your own initiative. The authors focus the book on the application of social media to social causes, but do not let this focus deter you from thinking that the [...]
Category: Book Review Management marketing web 2.0 Tags: Book Review, Social Computing, social media, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | November 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
We all face the need to make tough decisions mostly around the need to match resources with revenues or results. That may sound like a fancy way of saying cutting costs or saving money, but it is the reality we all face these type s of decisions. Recently I was talking with a CIO who [...]
Category: CIO Leadership web 2.0 Tags: Change leadership, Leadership, personal musing, Social Computing, social media
by Mark P. McDonald | November 1, 2010 | 8 Comments
There’s a lot of talk and experimentation regarding social media tools in enterprises. The other day was talking to an IT leader who shared the following story. He was in a meeting and the discussion made him keenly aware of the need for a wiki. “We were coordinating an event that included a large number [...]
Category: Personal Observation Technology web 2.0 Tags: Personal Observation, Social Computing, Tools, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | July 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
This is the first post in an occasional series called “best business books you may never had heard of but should read. The idea is that in the rush we face on a daily basis, we may lose the opportunity to pick up on some good ideas that we neither had the time or attention [...]
Category: Book Review Innovation Strategy web 2.0 Tags:
by Mark P. McDonald | July 5, 2010 | 5 Comments
Planning has already started for 2011 as people look to define their resources and results in a year of continued transition. Leaders are looking forward to find growth opportunities, while others are doing the mindless dance of last year plus or minus 5 – 10%. As you start to think about next year and the [...]
Category: CIO Economy Strategic planning Technology web 2.0 Tags: 2011 Planning, CIO Leadership, CIO strategy, Economic conditions, Economy, IT strategy, Strategy and Planning, web 2.0
by Mark P. McDonald | June 30, 2010 | 4 Comments
Generational differences get everyone’s attention. People like to think about generational differences because they easily explain the differences we all face. They make headlines because the enable one group – generally the older one to paint the other generation with over simplifications. Clay Shirky in his new book Cognitive Surplus evaluates the social context of [...]
Category: Leadership Personal Observation Strategic planning Strategy web 2.0 Tags:
