bluereek limited » Andrew McAfee http://www.bluereek.com Business and IT Consulting Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:23:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Email to survive for some time http://www.bluereek.com/2009/10/email-to-survive-for-some-time/ http://www.bluereek.com/2009/10/email-to-survive-for-some-time/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:17:13 +0000 Barry O'Gorman http://www.bluereek.com/?p=471 Andrew McAfee has been blogging recently on coexistence of email and enterprise 2.0/collaboration type tools in the enterprise.  His hypothesis is: ‘Within organizations, collaboration technologies are dictated by the most powerful person involved in the collaboration’.
And following on from this, given the number of CEO’s wedded to email, would seem that email will continue to be the core communications/ collaboration tool for some time, in many organisations.

I think of the challenge differently.  The CEO operates in  a competitive environment, charged with delivering results for the shareholders.  If there’s a better way to run a company many CEO’s will be open to the change.  If there is a better way than email then it’s up to those who understand the alternatives to paint the picture.  There are plenty of CEOs out there who will switch tool sets if they believe in the benefits.

I think the idea of ‘email as the graveyard of knowledge’ would be well understood by many CEOs.  In fact many would argue that email, computers, software, in general have been the graveyard of creativity, ‘spark’, stimulating interaction.  Notwithstanding this level of frustration I think many can see the potential benefits of ‘wiki-type’ tools (incorporating social networking functionality) over some combination of email and Word/PowerPoint/ Excel.

]]> http://www.bluereek.com/2009/10/email-to-survive-for-some-time/feed/ 1 Feedback from MBA’s re deployment of Web 2.0 http://www.bluereek.com/2008/05/feedback-from-mbas-re-deployment-of-web-20/ http://www.bluereek.com/2008/05/feedback-from-mbas-re-deployment-of-web-20/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 02:57:01 +0000 Barry O'Gorman http://www.bluereek.com/?p=37 In his post of May 03, Andrew McAfee gives summary feedback from surveying students in his Harvard class.  Very positive comments on opportunities for practical deployment of Wikis across a wide range of businesses, from people at different levels of management.  My own experience has been that the Wiki is easily adopted and is a powerful tool for supporting knowledge management and promoting collaboration in our own consulting business.

]]> http://www.bluereek.com/2008/05/feedback-from-mbas-re-deployment-of-web-20/feed/ 0 Adoption of web 2.0 in quieter Ireland http://www.bluereek.com/2008/04/adoption-of-web-20-in-quieter-ireland/ http://www.bluereek.com/2008/04/adoption-of-web-20-in-quieter-ireland/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:58:00 +0000 Barry O'Gorman http://www.bluereek.com/?p=45 Interesting pitch from Andrew McAfee today recession technology proposing that perhaps a slowing US economy actually provides an opportunity for greater penetration of web 2.0 in business – does not necessitate major captial outlay and may benefit from some time being available whcih was not previously available. 

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