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FastForwarding to a better understanding, part 3

Andrew McAfee has written another insightful piece about enterprise 2.0. To quote:

My skepticism about any wildfire spread of E2.0 stems from the fact that the new tools and approaches will succeed over time only in environments that have a set of characteristics. Technical characteristics are the most obvious of these. As the IWeek survey highlighted, security and access control remain key concerns among technologists, and they'll have to be addressed before most IT departments give their blessings to Enterprise 2.0. In addition, the user interfaces of many (most?) current tools will also need to be improved. A student told me last week that employees at a large tech company she's familiar with used to use wikis heavily, but now they just use Google Docs for group-level collaboration. The Docs are trivially easy to set up and edit, and even though they don't offer full wiki functionality (yet) they work well enough for many purposes.

Posted by jamesr on March 08, 2007 07:59 AM
Categories: Information management