Something from the boss to cite

The Practice of Innovation
by Peter M. Senge Analysis and critique of Drucker's three concepts of innovation

An excellent post on how companies earn big returns these days and the role/effect of employee engagement in that. Backed up by extensive engagement survey data.

Wish I'd found this earlier…

Extract: "Some have asked, Where does social media live? Is it marketing? Is it public relations? Is it IT or corporate? Is it a combination of multiple business units and functions, and if so, who leads the efforts and how does an organization choose partners? "

Extract: "Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and ask how the executives at your company would react:"

interesting little study

Selection of posts from Oliver Marks on collaboration and social software

"But the conventional wisdom rests on the false assumption that the more employees collaborate, the better off the company will be. In fact, collaboration can just as easily undermine performance."

Martin Moore on bbc.co.uk/journalism

New elearning journal. Maybe there will be some real reasearch and not just ideas and 5 things blogs in there!

Linkup with BMS

Good article which accumulates a set of viewpoints for/against use of terms like social business, enterprise 2.0 etc

Interesting post combining a couple of ideas from Jay Cross and Jane Hart, both of which could be backed up with some research if looked for (eg Jane's matrix considers serendipity – there wil be some research on that by Keith Sawyer, Jones & Goffee

Extract: "Knowledge workers fuel innovation and growth, yet the nature of knowledge work remains poorly understood—as do the ways to improve its effectiveness."

Extract: I ended my talk at last month’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco (viewable here; free registration required) by trying to be cute: I gave advice about how to fail with E2.0. My goal, of course, was to talk about good practices by highlighting bad ones. I gave six bad ideas:

* Declare war on the enterprise
* Allow walled gardens to flourish
* Accentuate the negative
* Try to replace email
* Fall in love with features
* Overuse the word ’social’

Innovation Nation, the DIUS White Paper on innovation (March 2008) states that NESTA will 'develop an Innovation Index to measure UK innovation in the round … A pilot index will be published in 2009 with a fuller system in place by 2010.'

Some good points and useful links