Scenario Planning: Embracing Uncertainty

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Part 2 - Relationships and Identity: Two Sides of the Social Networking Coin

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Part 2 - Relationships and Identity: Two Sides of the Social Networking Coin

Part 1 is here. Part 2 provides an additional example.
Use Case Scenarios
The following archetypes help illustrate dynamics involving identity within social structures.
Structured Task Worker
Mary is an opinionated call center agent for a large insurance company. …

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Relationships and Identity: Two Sides of the Social Networking Coin

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Relationships and Identity: Two Sides of the Social Networking Coin

The analysis below is an update to my earlier post. This outline forms the baseline of a discussion Alice Wang (Director, Burton Group) and I will lead at a workshop next Monday sponsored by Project Concordia. The workshop session will cover "Use Cases Driving Identity …

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Outside Innovation

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Outside Innovation

Interesting perspective... although while reading I thought that more insight on relationships and networks might have helped the thesis...

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation — HBS Working Knowledge
No one organization can …

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Top U.S. CEOs Social Media No-Shows - SmartPlanet

Thanks to Cydni Tetro via twitter (@cydtetro).

A study by web site UberCEO.com reveals that an appalling two out of a hundred of 100 America’s top CEOs have Twitter accounts (Warren Buffet and Proctor & Gamble’s Alan Lafley). Thirteen have LinkedIn profiles, but …

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Top U.S. CEOs Social Media No-Shows - SmartPlanet

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Harnessing Networks to Create Value and Identify New Opportunities - Knowledge@Wharton

Interesting read, networks apply not only to people but to organizational entities as well.

As the recent financial crisis has showed so dramatically, networks exist everywhere. Global inter-linkage of loans and mortgages -- which were intended to distribute risk -- …

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Reading Primer: Augmented Reality

A jumpstart to an emerging and fascinating space:

Startups looking to make money by enhancing reality | VentureBeat
Augmented reality (AR) technology, which overlays 3-D graphics or information over a live camera feed, isn’t a brand-new idea. But now that …

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Twittergate: Most difficult part of Web 2.0 security is the human | VentureBeat

The same can be said, and should be said, for Enterprise 2.0.
Policy formation and risk management, along with governance programs, are necessary to properly address legal, security, compliance, identity, and related business concerns. There have been some quotes that …

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Adobe Catches The Real-Time Wave

Adobe Wave: Lets publishers “wave” hi to users directly from the desktop
Readers opt-in for the updates. For example, if you’re a reader of VentureBeat, and want VentureBeat article links to appear on your desktop as soon as they’re published, Adobe Wave …

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Waves of Wave Clones?

I wonder if we will see a series of vendors tilting existing or delivering new products that mimic Google Wavel... 

Shareflow shows the future of group communication — and it’s not email | VentureBeat

However, a rash of recent innovation is starting to …

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Cisco: Great Expectations But "Where's The (Collaboration) Beef"?

Over the past several weeks, two Cisco events generated a great deal of media coverage (refer to “In The News” below). For those that have not been paying close attention, for some time now Cisco has actively been playing a grand chess game. The company has already …

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Social Dashboards: Leveraging Streams, Relationships & Social Identities

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Social Dashboards: Leveraging Streams, Relationships & Social Identities

Interesting space to watch... understanding the intersect between social networks, relationships, and identity remains key:

Enterprise Friendly Social Network Dashboard PeopleBrowsr Launches Real-Time Search
PeopleBrowsr, a desktop and web browser-based dashboard …

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Gnip Continues To Push For A Real-Time (Data) Web

Another company to watch:

New Gnip Push API Service
The Gnip product offerings are growing today as we officially announce a new Push API Service that will help companies more quickly and effectively deliver data to their customers, partners and affiliates.  (See …

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Gnip Continues To Push For A Real-Time (Data) Web

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Opening Up And Speeding Up Feeds

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