The IT Project Confessional, part 4 – ethical responsibilities of the confessor priest

Imagine that I’m the “confessor priest” in an IT project confessional environment, and a troubled project manager walks into my office, and tells me that in a fit of rage, he has just shot an obnoxious, uncooperative, unproductive members of his project team — point blank, right between the eyes. What should I do?
Or consider [...]

Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston

I spent most of last week in Boston, attending the annual Enterprise 2.0 conference. This is the second or third E2.0 conference I’ve attended here (they begin to blur after a while), and it was generally a productive experience. But for the sake of posterity, here are a few other details:

The blatant sales pitch in [...]

Whither IT, part 14 – Generational trends

The great anthropologist Margaret Mead popularized the terms postfigurative, cofigurative, and prefigurative — and it’s something we need to be aware of if we want to anticipate the impact of future IT technology. (See Mead’s Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap for more details.)
A postfigurative culture is one in which things don’t really [...]

Whither IT, part 13 – Social/cultural trends

To anticipate the social impact of future IT, it would help to be an expert sociologist with a perfect crystal ball. I don’t have such expertise, so I’ll restrict my comments to specific areas where I think I have some vague idea of what I’m talking about … and aside from that, I’ll simply recommend [...]

Whither IT, part 11 – the future, from a social perspective

The last several postings in this blog thread have focused on the future of IT from a technical perspective. For those of us who work in the IT industry, this is no surprise: there’s no question that we want to use the new “stuff” as soon as it’s available, and the main questions are simply [...]

Enterprise 2.0 seminar in Rome – May 2010

I just finished presenting a two-day seminar on “Enterprise 2.0” in Rome on May 19-21, 2010. You can download the 57.3-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the link above, or the image below, or by viewing/downloading the presentation from my Slideshare page. A few of the slides may seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if [...]

Rome presentation: “Strategic Planning for Enterprise 2.0″

I’m here in Rome this week, participating in a conference on “Enterprise 2.0” for Technology Transfer Institute. You should be there so you can hear the presentations from all of the speakers, as well as the comments and questions from the participants. But if you’re stuck in some other part of the world, or you couldn’t [...]

Enterprise 2.0, version 1.02

I’ve updated the seminar on “Enterprise 2.0” that I presented in Rome on May 4-5, 2009. You can download the 54.921-megabyte PDF file by clicking on the link above, or you can view/download it on my Slideshare page; a few of the slides (and updates) will seem rather cryptic and mysterious, but if you actually [...]

Web 2.0 version v54

While I was presenting my Web 2.0 seminar in Rome this week, I had a chance to review and edit the V53 Web 2.0 materials that I recently uploaded — as well as adding some new material based on the June 9, 2008 Apple presentation about its new iPhone3g. The result is a new V54 [...]

Web 2.0, version 53

During the past week, I’ve had a chance to review and edit the V52 Web 2.0 materials that I recently published. The result is a new V53 version, which you can download as a PDF file by clicking here or on the picture below, or which you can view/download by visiting my Slideshare page. The [...]