Enterprise 2.0 Experiences Needed For Repository
Written by Ameed Taylor
During the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Andrew McAfee proposed an industry wide Enterprise 2.0 repository for the collection of best practices for implementing and utilizing Enterprise 2.0.
Socialtext agreed to host the Enterprise 2.0 use case repository and since its inception in the 4th quarter of last year Andrew has collected and posted about 18 use cases.
This repository is the only public repository that I am aware of that is collecting use cases for Enterprise 2.0 and with skepticism about Enterprise 2.0 still prevalent at the C-level in many companies, is very much needed.
The majority of the use cases to date are from Academia or non-profits and more use cases are needed from vertical industries like retail or manufacturing, consulting firms, and vendors. Private industry use cases are very important in that many approvers and enablers of Enterprise 2.0 initiatives rely on use cases to help establish the rationale for new projects. These approvers and enablers normally look first for familiar companies like an AT&T and or Oracle, and then immediately look for use case examples in their vertical industry.
I will be sure to ask Andrew at this years Enterprise 2.0 conference what the future plans are for the repository and will post an update to this article later.
Meanwhile if you have use cases that would be beneficial to others please contact Andrew McAfee or let me know in the comments of other Enterprise 2.0 use cases that you have run across on the internet.
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Maybe someone will create use cases also for life sciences. Have heard Enterprise 2.0 being used for back office, sales or accounting but have seen no use cases for life sciences.
Ameed Taylor
reply on May 29th, 2008 :
Banking and Financial Services could use a few use cases as well Gerhard.