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:
i have long advocated that local organisations explore the use of internet to drive the development of content in the country (that's because i am a tech geek and an entertainment junkie *grin*).
...but can't seem to get any answers. perhaps my requests are buried deep in the thread. so i decide to create a new thread to seek help.
what i am trying to achieve
i would like to setup more than one drupal site using a single code base. each site would have different settings / databases. i do not want to have subdomains (although this could be a later requirement) or parked domains (as suggested by fidelis on http://drupal.org/node/62255#comment-126409). my response: i intend to set up various community interest sites with a single domain as being the traffic aggregator, so the additional domains is not an option.
It has been a long while since I updated my blog. Things have been extreme for me for some time now. Changes at work, new initiatives with my-kart, business planning etc.
This Merdeka Day break is good. Just need to free myself from all the work and priorities and reflect for a short while. No doubt i shall be soon doing a bit of work... but let me for a short while sip some virtual tea with you.
I am going through and responsible for putting through some changes at work. This is a huge challenge for me, as change is one thing that many people fear the most. It is often so easy to do the same things we do for the longest time we can remember. But every once in a while things start to change and sometimes we tend not to be ready for it.
