Notable + Quotable: The evolution of Enterprise 2.0, Green IT, and beating the credit crunch
by Celine Roque
The 7 Evolutionary Phases of Enterprise 2.0
Christopher Musico of Destination CRM discusses a newly-formulated model of the events that led to Enterprise 2.0: “According to Bob Larrivee, director of AIIM North American education services, the purpose of the AIIM Worker Model is to help companies understand where Enterprise 2.0 fits historically within their organizations. “If you look back, information has basically been siloed,” he says. “We hope a more open, collaborative environment with knowledge-sharing [using] Web 2.0 technology will enhance the work environment.”
Green IT beyond virtualization: Storage Matters
Behzad Behtash shares, on Information Week, a few best practices and technologies that may aid in decreasing overall data storage requirements and associated utility costs: “Data deduplication and single instancing of data, can significantly reduce storage requirements–we’ve seen 20-to-1 or higher improvements. Thin-provisioning technology allows more efficient utilization of storage by eliminating the need to overallocate at initial provisioning. With thin provisioning, you can take out some of the guesswork by allocating only the space you immediately require and allowing the storage platform’s thin provisioning capability to increase allocated space as needed, up to a preset limit.”
Telecommuting beating the credit crunch
Telecommuting is not just convenient for workers, it’s also becoming practical for employees. Floran Malecki lists 10 social trends and technology advancements that are making the transition easier for companies on Computer Weekly: “Today, web meetings have become commonplace within companies that have distributed workforces, whether in remote offices or home offices. Applications such as wikis and VoIP are key enablers of online collaboration. For telecommuters, remote collaboration can lead to huge productivity gains.“
Re-engineering 2.0
Young mavericks Andrew Jones and Todd Sundsted question corporate ideologies as they try to bring back common sense to the boardroom: “The corporate office was born in a different age. Ubiquitous connectivity didn’t exist, and work itself was substantially different. The phrase “go to work” captured the arrangement perfectly. There are several problems with the big office that employees go to work in today. First, a big office is expensive. Second, getting there costs employees an increasing amount of commute time and gas money. Third, the organization of most offices no longer reflects how people actually work.”
Can we trust anyone over 30?
Gordon Crovitz talks about the Net Generation and its effects on society in light of Don Tapscott’s best-selling book, Growing Up Digital: “Those in the 12- to 30-year-old cohort prize freedom of choice, like to customize everything they do, collaborate, value integrity, and can live more easily than their parents with information overload and constant innovation. Mr. Tapscott argues that in contrast to earlier generations that took in information passively, such as through television, this generation “has been flooded with information, and learning to access, sort, categorize and remember it all has enhanced their intelligence.”
The Connected President
How will having a tech-savvy president change governance? Richard Koman of ZDNET looks at the pros and cons: “I have to think that the Obama Administration will take the Internet and online communication very seriously. And in this way, perhaps even more than the fact of his mixed race or his transformation of the electorate, I think he will lead the way to a new, citizen-connected politics.“
12 Ways to plump your paycheck
Stacy Colette presents a series of articles on maximizing salary, and not surprisingy, teleworking made the cut. “By year’s end, almost one in four employers (22%) will be, for the first time, planning to offer at least some employees the option of a four-day workweek, and slightly more (24%) are planning to allow more employees to work from home, according to Mercer’s Gas Price Impact SnapShot Survey, conducted in July 2008.”
Otellini: Web 2.0 opportunities exist despite economy
Despite the bleak financial climate, the current Intel CEO gives much-needed encouragement, citing overlooked opportunities, as reported by PC World’s Juan Carlos Perez: “Unlike similar social-networking services in the consumer space, a workplace system must have strong security and control features for IT departments. In Otellini’s view, the opportunity for enterprise software developers is wide-open right now in this segment.“
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