Don’t bet your enterprise 2.0 on Sharepoint
Within many global 2000 companies, the journey to create Social Enterprises (also referred to as Enterprise 2.0) is underway, set against a backdrop of hopelessly outdated methods for employee collaboration & communications.
There’s a lot at stake. Companies that make a smooth transition to a social enterprise can unlock innovation more quickly, capture & share knowledge more effectively and harness their global networks of talent to outwit the competition. But the transition is complicated, requiring not just adoption of new technologies but significant changes in culture and working behaviour.
So how do you set about achieving a smooth transition, preferably before your competition? This is where Microsoft’s Sharepoint looms large, as the intranet collaboration platform of choice across many large enterprises today.
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Awesome.
What a great post – this is like being vindicated for everything we have fought for.
Sharepoint does indeed have its place – but it is absolutely not in creating fast moving innovative solutions for the modern enterprise.
In my view it belongs in the trash cart of the ‘no-one got fired for choosing it’ IT driven initiatives that so often fly in the face of what the business could really achieve without the constraints of these kinds of bloated solutions..