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Re: Uservoice fails to seize the internal enterprise market (or "consuprise" take 3)

Christian Schrader — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:51:12 -0000

Very nice post. We are in 2013 now, when I write this comment, and I believe there is still a lot to do.

I am currently looking for good solutions. if anybody wants to share, please do.

Re: Cognitive Biases series: Disjunction effects

7ygy — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:40:03 -0000

Here's my hypothesis for why people decide as they do in the prisoner's dilemma experiment:

If you DON'T know the decision of the opponent, you mentally equate that with the opponent not having made his/her decision yet, whether or not this is actually so. So you decide to be nice because it seems like he/she still has 'power'. In particular you feel that there's a high chance of the opponent choosing the same option as you, in which case cooperating is clearly better. On the other hand if you DO know his/her decision, the decision has of course already been made, and they have no such power.

Re: Core Digital Infrastructure Technologies improve exponentially without stabilizing

Digital Signage — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:10:16 -0000

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Re: A few thoughts on Yammer, a twitter-like for organizations

Jonathan T — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:20:36 -0000

I know this is an old post and I found it because I do not appreciate the "spam" that I keep getting from people joining yammer and "asking" me to join. The thing is, my company is very large and I have no idea who these people are so I do not know how they are emailing me.

I noticed that their emails do not have an opt-out link in them. I went to their website and there was no opt-out information there. According to the search results in Google, they did have an opt-out in their private policy; however, they have since removed this from their private policy page. What are your thoughts on Yammer now that they have been around for a few years?

Re: Return on Attention is a key metric in a world of Attention Scarcity

ayalarahav — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:17:18 -0000

Hi, ROA as a user side valuable consideration to interacting individuals, is the other side of ROI I thought you may find this interesting http://bit.ly/fdD1C3

Re: In search of a cloud computing metaphor? Think Harrods, with some twists

http://www.leasecar.co.uk — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:22:31 -0000

why arent you blogging anymore???

Re: In search of a cloud computing metaphor? Think Harrods, with some twists

NissanNick — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:57:51 -0000

I struggled to understand this concept before I read your article, so thank you.

Re: A few thoughts on Yammer, a twitter-like for organizations

Ross Jimenez — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:06:16 -0000

Good Post Julien… and I would have to agree with you. It is especially difficult for the very largest of corporations and will lead simply to a "block" by default mentality. This loss of confidence is what I have to deal with while trying to evangelize social tools internally which makes my job more difficult.

In my mind Yammer could:

1.) Offer an opt-out capability that is allow a user from a company to request that they block users from their company, when someone from @email tries to sign-up they get an email with the person’s message who requested that they “block” sign-ups for the company. This way the person could still engage with the individual to determine proper usage etc.

2.) Would be to simply provide all management features with a limited number of users, say 50/100 users.

Re: Core Digital Infrastructure Technologies improve exponentially without stabilizing

digital signage — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:46:43 -0000

better foundation index,cost index and better reduction in band witch cost helps in better achievement.

Re: “Enterprise 2.0″ is about organizational performance, not just t****!

Julien Le Nestour — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:14:26 -0000

Hi Lee -

Yes, I am also speaking specifically of E2.0 in counterpoint to social business design and the equivalent terms that start to be used. BTW, I am excited to see what you all can do with the Dachis Group as a vehicle for all this talent :)

If you can share any projects where the focal point is more on the performance gains and interactions efficiency than on E2.0 tools, that would be fantastic and very, very useful for both realigning the community and establishing the credibility of DG :)

Re: “Enterprise 2.0″ is about organizational performance, not just t****!

Lee Bryant — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:35:11 -0000

Hi Julien,

I agree with you that the E2.0 label is more about tool use than transformative economic and social relations. That is why we are keen on the term social business design, which is more about social relations and networks effects than tools.

Coincidentally, we are looking at mobile micropayments in Africa right now for a project that aims to build a social marketplace for local entrepreneurs.

Re: Let’s share the best pictures to use in presentations with #prezpic

Jan Schultink — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:40:01 -0000

Your idea is a good one. Many of the professional stock image sites do not have the right key word indices for business presentations, and things are even worse for sites such as flickr. Tweeting images with a hash tag might still not be enough to make them searchable over a longer period of time.

Personally, I have a category for "chart concept"s in which I log images and chart ideas.

But maybe we can do something else? Maybe a flickr photo group would work. It has better tagging, an admin can do basic quality control. There is an issue with copy righted images though. Maybe you can put up the watermarked example icon, with a link through to the source side. But again, this might be too much work for people to do for each image they use.

Another approach would require some changes in photo sharing sites. You could create a mechanism where people could follow site users. "See which images has Jan favorite-ed" or something like that.

In short, I do not have a clear answer, but I appreciate your lead to try and get it sorted.

Re: In search of a cloud computing metaphor? Think Harrods, with some twists

finance_used_car — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:36:35 -0000

I'm so love this blog, already bookmarked it! Thanks.

Re: How to price Enterprise Social Computing offerings?

Kids Games — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:49:37 -0000

Interesting assessment. Developing a pricing strategy can always be a source of contention for companies. You lay out a good outline to follow.

Re: TripIt/Dopplr: case in point

Club Penguin Cheats — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:37:03 -0000

Thinking about this a few weeks ago, when I posted a trip to "Boston" because I thought that if I said "Cambridge" it might not reveal some coincidences -- but then I thought it might also have the opposite effect.

Re: User Adoption risks are growing rapidly for IT projects

Club Penguin Cheats — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:36:24 -0000

The concepts are a direct hit as to why so many projects fail - which I characterize as the inattention to business processes and the associated organizational changes to exploit those new business processes and the technologies that enable them.

Re: How to price Enterprise Social Computing offerings?

Club Penguin Cheats — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:32:39 -0000

It summarizes nicely a critical strategic issue for both the enterprise customer and the vendor. As you point out finding this alignment is critical to successful relationships in the long term. Piloting social applications is and interesting exercise given the nature of the value curve.

Re: Consuprise: Consumer web startups should leverage the enterprise market

Club Penguin Cheats — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:31:02 -0000

Come up with a business model that brings in real money while they’re still young.

Re: “Features” has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects

Julien Le Nestour — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:39:16 -0000

Hi Lee -
Thanks for the kind words and for stopping by here ;)

IT departments have a long way to go before using ROA...

Re: “Features” has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects

Lee Bryant — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:58:09 -0000

Hi Julien,

I think this is a very good point, very well made.

Right now, most IT departments have only the feature comparison spreadsheet matrix (if anything at all!) to judge competing products, and I completely agree with you about ROA, usability, etc., and of course the point that obody has to train you how to use Facebook.

Good to see you blogging more - you really are very good value ;-)

Re: “Features” has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects

Julien Le Nestour — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:37:09 -0000

Wow, Susan. Many thanks for the comments :-)

Re: “Features” has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects

Susan Scrupski — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:19:15 -0000

Wow. Spot on. Do not force me into the embarrassing position of asking for your hand in marriage. :-)

Re: Attention scarcity is deeply reshaping businesses

Jason (salespodder) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:24:28 -0000

cool blog, Julien :-) I happened across your thoughts whilst searching for wisdom on crm adoption that helps explain why most projects, despite the best of intentions, fail to fully engage a salesteam The first time I came across this concept you describe well as Attention Scarcity was in around 2004. A person leading over 100 field-based salespeople realised his "struggle to capture screen real estate". I then worked with him to try and create what we termed 'tool dependency' for his systems, which meant that certain elements of their duties could only be discharged through the system. Our findings at that time were stark; you had to reduce input tasks to a bare minimum of literally just two or three items and build from there to gain any traction. This was because attention scarcity has another side in the sales domain, namely that a salesrep will always do any other task that crops up rather than fulfill their reporting requirements.

Re: User Adoption risks are growing rapidly for IT projects

Steve Romero — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:13:21 -0000

Great post. The concepts are a direct hit as to why so many projects fail - which I characterize as the inattention to business processes and the associated organizational changes to exploit those new business processes and the technologies that enable them.

I found it interesting that you suggested a third dimension of risk. The only reason I would add this third dimension is if I could not adequately manage the risk as a component of the other two dimensions - technical and business.

I would have a placeholder in every project charter for the technical risk associated with the lack of user adoption. I would have the same placeholder in every project charter for the business risk. The risk must be addressed in both dimensions to ensure it is appropriately managed.

I think this post gets to the bottom line that it is rarely addressed at all.

Steve Romero, IT Governance Evangelist
http://community.ca.com/blo...

Re: User Adoption risks are growing rapidly for IT projects

Julia Brown — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:13:41 -0000

Excellent piece, great advice :-)