This Thursday I appeared on our weekly video blog spilling the beans on managing agency and project portfolio in the age of social work tools. Watch it here:
Read more about Podio and project portfolio management on the Podio blog.
The Future of Work is Empowerment
I just published another post on the Podio blog about information systems for the future of work. I features an interview with Professor João Baptista from Warwick Business School talking about the new paradigm in computing that is shaping the way we work. Here is an excerpt from the post:
“You make an important decision about your future of work when you choose your new project collaboration software, CRM system, or social intranet.
When choosing a new work tool, the main focus should be on solving real business problems faced by real people every day in organisations. Recently, new work tools like Podio have empowered users and given them unprecedented access to customize their online experience according to their individual needs.
This shift of power to users has raised some fundamental questions about the role of work technologies, and caused a kind of identity crisis in organisations, as stated by João Baptista, Associate Professor of IS at Warwick Business School in the UK and Benchmarking Associate at the Intranet Benchmarking Forum.“
Read the full blog post here.
A Model of New Media and Stakeholder Engagement
The media landscape has changed from a paradigm where you had ‘everything-in-one-media‘ to a new, web based media landscape where there is ‘a media for everything‘. But what are the functions of new media, and to which stakeholder groups? Trying to make sense of stakeholder involvement in new media I came up with this idea for a model:
Arthur C. Clarke Predicting Computer and Sattelite Networks – In 1964
Author of “2001 – A Space Odyssey” Arthur C. Clarke is predicting the world of today – 50 years ahead of his time. Watch it.
Future Technology: Arthur C Clarke Predicting the future in 1964
Steps to a Network Enterprise Business Model
Enterprise 2.0. Open source. Peer production. Prosumerism. Crowdsoucing. Network Enterprise. Any of these concepts seem familiar? If not they will be – and within a shorter time frame than some would like to think.
Here are some steps to the Network Enterprise model that I present to clients at NESR. The goal of my business is to help clients make the transition to the network society. A first step in advicing my clients is to look at what is actually new or different in the Network Enterprise business model.
While Teaching Business School I did i bit of reading on traditional vs. Network-based models and summed up some of my findings in this table:
Network Enterprise Business Models
Here are five steps to a Network Enterprise business model: [to be further explained]
Step #1: Engage Stakeholders in Core Processes
Step #2: Minimize Internal Costs
Step#3: Build on Open Standards
Step #4: Distribute Though Shared Channels
Step #5: Organize For the Business Web