by Patti Anklam
April 28, 2009 at 10:57 am
· Filed under Web 2.0
From the Learningtrends network, I found a series of posts byPadmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco.
The 5 predictions for the future of collaboration are:
- Collaboration networks will be to Enterprises what Social Networks are to Consumers.
- It’s not about “on-premise” vs. “on-demand”, it will all be about the User Experience.
- Innovation will be redefined by Operational Excellence
- Organizations without boundaries will drive the next wave of productivity
- Information technology will evolve into Information Fabric
Items #1 and #4 are all about networks, not surprisingly from the company that launched its “Human Network” brand campaign in 2007. The information network enables the human network to communicate across distances of time and space and enables a single organization to achieve remarkable results by reaching out, establishing a network that crosses boundaries, and nurturing that network.
These posts are strong on vision from a company that has played and will continue to play a vital role in connecting us. Warrior’s example of an ad hoc expertise community in Cisco (Mac users) is self-referencing. Of course technies use tools!
The vision meets reality in the hard work of the social architecture, which includes attention to the following human elements:
- Getting over the barriers to adoption of the technology
- Designing collaborative spaces not just to serve the functions of collaboration, but the purpose of a specific network or collaboration
- Modeling and supporting the behaviors of collaboration
I am challenged and invigorated by the work of bringing organizations into this predicted future.
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