Skip to main content
Short URL(SRL) : http://srl.diigo.com/126s

Innovation Creators: The Next Wave in Productivity Tools - We...

Popularity Report

Total Popularity Score: 0

Loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Loading...
Loading...

Rank

Related Lists

Bookmark History

Saved by 28 people (6 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-03-02


Public Comment

on 2006-03-03 by mscifo

Great article describing current web2.0 office offerings and where it is heading.

on 2006-05-02 by ykominami

Innovation happend in IT

on 2006-11-05 by jimhanna

One of the most thoughtful pieces I've read on the impact of web tools.

Public Sticky notes

The average MBA graduates in 2006 are not just knowledge workers. They are capable of being highly networked internal entrepreneurs and innovation creators. Their ability to connect is not just about email, BlackBerries, text messages and voice-mails. They are intimately familiar with all those tools, but ultimately, expertise with those one-to-one connectivity tools is just the price of admission.

Highlighted by joel

Podzinger.com

Highlighted by ykominami

The right approach will require a change of mindset, from one that provided solutions to one that provides tools. In addition to providing the infrastructure that will support Web Office, IT will have to change the way it builds systems. Rather than massive solutions it builds today, IT will shift to open, modular systems, with service orientated architectures. This means they will be building lots of little solutions that are designed from the get go to talk with other applications.

Highlighted by thoughtlava

There are five reasons why any senior executive needs to start thinking about Web Office now:

  1. Web Office technology will make partnering and out-sourcing more efficient by creating a platform that can seamlessly support virtual ad-hoc teams. Thus, it will quickly reduce your costs.
  2. If you have any competitors using Web Office technology, they are going to have a significant productivity lead over you. Web Office will be as big and important as email, and you wouldn’t imagine running a business today without email.
  3. Your new hires are already using this technology. The MBA class of 2006 has lived and breathed the web since they were in high school. If you don’t provide company endorsed solutions, they will end up using tools that are available on the open Internet until you do.
  4. Most importantly, Web Office will help you to increase the pace of innovation within your organization. As I explained in my last paper “Turning Knowledge Workers into Innovation Creators”, constant innovation is the only business strategy capable of producing a stream of above average profits. To achieve constant innovation, senior executives need to bring everyone into the effort. Web Office is the ideal tool to help achieve that goal.
  5. Web Office is cheap. You will get a lot of bang for your buck.

Highlighted by thoughtlava

owered by a brand new set of productivity tools. Think about the jump from typewriters to word processors. Think about how, in the 1980s, our parents had to struggle to learn to use spreadsheets like VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3. We are on the verge of experiencing a jump in the

Highlighted by maggie_diigo