I thought today I will be having a good rest at the office (KLGCC), surfing porn (oops) and having my teh ais! Then I opened the Star. Damned! There’s so many things to write! There goes my work! Eh, you got work meh? I hear one of my old friends saying! Yes, I do have work!! What, just because I sit at the club most days, I don’t have work!!! I am an entrepreneur! We work from everywhere! Even in our sleep! Anyway, the front page headline in the Star screamed “Stop the
one of the projects i am working on is putting together a framework for corporate innovation.
one thing's for sure, this is no easy thing. but unfortunately - or fortunately - it is something of a must do. we as a nation are at a crossroad, and inflection point.
for the past several years, we prided ourselves as being a solid destination for foreign investment in manufacturing. our low cost structure, good infrastructure and investment friendly government policies helped to drive economic growth 1.0.
i would like to share with you my personal journey of the beginnings of the transforming an organisation from a traditional top-down command & control hierarchy based organisation into a desired empowered organisation where employees at the lowest team levels are empowered to serve the customers better, create more value and drive better organisational performance.
i was working with a large local organisation with a long history.
we live in a world that is self organising. we should not delude ourselves that we can control it through commands, propaganda, rules and penalties. as dr ian malcolm in jurassic park said: "life will always find a way".
we have seen over the past few years the rise of collaborative activities that seem to drive a greater and faster level of innovation. the new web 2.0 technologies have enabled us to work together with people whom we've never met, but can leverage on each others' strengths resulting in faster development of new ideas and solutions.
but this seems to only happen over the internet/web. traditional organisations tend to fall behind in all of these new ideas. so how do traditional organisations and enterprises adapt to these trends and unlock the potential of their people?
http://socialsoftwarematrix.org/ is a site that evaluates social networking solutions for enterprises. it's introduction section says:
This website is indented to serve as an introduction to Social Software for enterprises.
The focus of the page will be on a comparison of the performance of different Social Software products in a set of defined business use cases. In addition the page will assess the chosen Social Software with respect to technological and business key factors for an enterprise implementation.
The results presented on socialsoftwarematrix.org are based on an internal evaluation of selected Social Software by the T-Systems MMS Consulting-Enterprise 2.0 team. We tried to be as objective as possible but we do not lay claim to final truth. Any feedback and discussion, on this page or on our blog http://www.besser20.de/ is highly appreciated.
On socialsoftwarematrix.org visitors will get an idea bout how Social Software can be used in a company as well as a comparative overview about Social Software products. Seeing the strength and weaknesses of a product in different use cases and the ability to compare multiple products for a single use-case can help a company to find the right Social Software for its specific needs.
The release of the Social Software Matrix is planned for the end of October. To shorten the waiting time and to give an introduction to Enterprise 2.0 we present to you our three parted presentation. Subscribe our newsletter to be informed when socialsoftwarematrix.org will be released.
there is also a set of presentations that give us a useful insight into enterprise 2.0:
it is such an amazing and beautiful concept car that i think has to make it into production. this would certainly establish a name for BMW of being green and exciting at the same time: no compromises.
now, a couple of renderings of what might be the "real" thing has cropped up on bmwblog.com: here and here.
which one do you think is better?
the first rendering?
the second rendering?
i would think many cannot wait to see this car go into production.
BMW recently announced the M3 GTS pure race track car. When they cancelled the M3 CSL, we did not know that they had a GTS in mind. here it is... This is perhaps the most extreme BMW produced by munich. 4.4 litre V8 with power at 450bhp and 7 speed M dual clutch transmission. wheels are 19 inch aluminium with 255/35 and 285/30 stickies at the front and rear respectively. Some serious suspension upgrades are made. The car saves weight wherever possible: carbon fibre roof, light weight seats, no air-cond and rear seats. rollover protections are in place with fire extinguisher. the M3 GTS is only made to order at about €115,000 per unit.
