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This Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Falling too far behind and becoming a technology laggard means significant and sustained loss of competitiveness that’s very difficult to recover from. I’ve omitted obvious items like BYOD and Big Data platforms like Hadoop, since virtually all organizations have these on their lists already. Unified communication.

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What We Know About Making Enterprise Social Networks Successful Today

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

In fact, one of the clearest lessons from the first decade of the rise of the ESN was that virtually all of the major challenges with ESN success are about people, not technology. Unlike generic communications systems, enterprise social networks perform at their best when they’re designed around specific business activities.

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