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6 Months Into Business - Update

Gone Dark? Not Exactly... Shifting Channels

For those who haven't been following me in the world of Twitter in recently (@dankeldsen), while I have not been nearly as active here on BizTechTalk, I've busy with client work, and most recently having the wonderful experience of being with some of the smartest minds I've had the pleasure of interacting with at this week's Front End of Innovation (#feiboston or #fei09) just a 10 minute walk from my office.

I was talking (as you can see in the YouTube clip above) on the topic of Enterprise 2.0 and Innovation, and had a great audience, and incredible and ongoing conversations before, during and after the session.

Full slide deck below - audio coming shortly:

Do You Have the Strength to Embrace Innovation in a 2.0 World?

View more from Dan Keldsen.

The Business of a New Business

And for those who may have forgotten, or indeed, not known, Carl Frappaolo and I have been busy gents in our new (as of December 2008) company, Information Architected.

While the economy could certainly be in far better shape than it is, we have been quite busy with some attention getting SharePoint research, case studies and presentations (free subscription to the information - dripped over 2-3 weeks) out the door starting in January, as well as taking all that we've learned over the 15-25 years we've been doing work in the process, innovation, content, knowledge and search worlds, to provide very targeted educational offerings tied tightly to the consulting capabilities we offer.

Fantastic Clients

For those clients who have seen fit to work with us in the 6 months out of the gate, I sincerely thank you for the work (and would name you, if not for the NDAs, although I understand the reasoning, no worries).

Good to have new clients as well to have circled back to past clients to help continue the work we had begun from the Delphi Group days.

And for those who are in need of no-nonsense analysis, consulting or education services - please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Coming Up

Unless I am on the road, I look forward to seeing people at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference again this year (also a mere 10 minute walk from the office - sometimes being Boston-based is a very good thing), and otherwise, see you online and offline wherever we might next meet.

Don't hesitate to get in touch, and if I can help you at all in YOUR business, let me know, I'd be happy to see if there is a good fit, and if not, the cast of thousands in my LinkedIn and Twitter networks are likely to hold suitable candidates.

Now Available: Market IQ on Business Process Management

We released some of the early findings of this report last month, in the free webinar describing key points (view/listen to archive), and now, the streamlined Market IQ on Business Process Management has been released, as usual, as a no-cost resource to any who have an interest in Business Process Management.

AIIM Market IQ on Business Process Management: Leveraging Competencies and Streamlining Processes to Achieve Operational Excellence

This study of 354 end users found that a majority of respondents believe  that their organizations as a whole are at "process ignorance" rather than  "process excellence." Where are you and your organization in the maturity curve?

Download it now, complements of the underwriters of this research: EMC, IBM and Risetime.

If you didn't know, there are also 1, 2 or 4 days of training available from AIIM on Business Process Management as well.

Many options to chose from in either research to support your BPM-related efforts, or training to help sell the value and execute on a project.

Shh... Secret Webinar on Enterprise 2.0

Ok, so it's not secret, or if it is, we've really blown it, as without our normal week prior push, we have over 300 people pre-registered for the free webinar on Thursday March 27: Enterprise 2.0 - What's the Real Story?

The market is abuzz with commentary on Enterprise 2.0. Emerging from the momentum of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Such as? Ah, that would be telling... you can find a sneak peek in our E-DOC magazine, both in the Jan/Feb issue (current as of this post), and the soon to be published Mar/April issue.

Register for this webinar (no charge, so might as well get this on your calendar) - and stay tuned for the Market IQ report on Enterprise 2.0 that will preceed the webinar (and be the subject of our presentation). The webinar will be archived as well, in case you can't make that day, for you Long Tail fans out there.

Underwritten in part by EMC, Open Text, Socialtext and SpringCM.

 

The market is abuzz with commentary on Enterprise 2.0. Emerging from the momentum of Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Such as? Ah, that would be telling... you can find a sneak peek in our E-DOC magazine, both in the Jan/Feb issue (current as of this post), and the soon to be published Mar/April issue.

Register for this webinar (no charge, so might as well get this on your calendar) - and stay tuned for the Market IQ report on Enterprise 2.0 that will preceed the webinar (and be the subject of our presentation). The webinar will be archived as well, in case you can't make that day, for you Long Tail fans out there.

Underwritten in part by EMC, Open Text, Socialtext and SpringCM.

Time To Market and Enterprise Development

A quick (it's all relative, eh?) peek into some of the ideas we're going to be surfacing around our Enterprise 2.0 Market IQ (research paper), and forthcoming Enterprise 2.0 Training course (see announcement from our VP of Education, Atle Skjekkeland), premiering March 3rd in Boston at the AIIM International Expo & Conference. Carl Frappaolo and I are developing the research and training in parallel, as an exercise in juggling our "normal" Market Intelligence work, with the added fun of blazing some new educational ground. (sanity is over-rated as it turns out!)

None of our Enterprise 2.0 work is going to be targeted specifically at software development teams per se, as we are focused (typically) on the "tech-savvy business person" in most cases, but we are most definitely going to be pointing out a trend that has been brewing in software development for at least the last 15 years, and more broadly, to manufacturing processes, for over 50 years.

To start priming the pump and get your mind going, I found a succinct overview of Agile Project Management (based around SCRUM, one of the most popular "agile methods"), via Scribd.com - a self-publishing, mostly book-oriented service, similar to slideshare.net. Ironically, this example is a presentation - whoops!

I'm highlighting page 8 below (in the embedded version - or view it directly on scribd), which discusses tight, 30 day "sprints" (development cycles), and the quick (typically daily) 15 minute reviews that agile teams typically do. It is not uncommon for SaaS-oriented commercial outfits (such as salesforce.com, springcm.com, etc.) to release new software/functionality on a 1-3 month basis, non-stop, forever.

Flip through the presentation, and see what you think of the concepts and promises regarding SCRUM.

Can your team do that? (whether an internally-facing shop, or commercial development shop)

If yes, fantastic! Would love to hear your success stories. Please comment/trackback.

If no, why not? Have you tried this approach? Tried and died? Lacked management buy-in? Feel it's a fad? Please comment/trackback.

Regular readers will know I periodically ask specifically for feedback for internally facing development teams. My anecdotal evidence is that "corporate development/IT" is far behind the curve in adopting any agile practices (SCRUM or otherwise). I would love to be proven wrong however, so blow your horns folks!

Also, I'm starting a secret army (shh) of "BizTech" types, via the LinkedIn group I started this week. Current rallying point for discussions, for the moment at least, will remain this blog, but I have some ideas I want to bounce around as well, so join the BizTech Army! (I'm happy to network with just about anyone as well - the more connections, the more potential. Who knows, you could be the 3rd person in recent months that I've helped connect to their next job.)