How can you use Web 2.0 for internal KM? Innovation? Collective Intelligence? Einat Shimoni VP & Senior Analyst, STKI www.einatstki.blogspot.com 1 All Rights Reserved @Einat Shimoni, STKI www.stki.info
Disruptive Technologies Social Software how can it promote your business? how can it improve internal collaboration? 2 All Rights Reserved @Einat Shimoni, STKI www.stki.info
Knowledge Management – The “traditional” approach Full-Blown “enterprise” systems Costly Managed Usually complex to use and not personalized …“but it’s worth it for the good of the enterprise” “Build them and they will come” All Rights Reserved @Einat Shimoni, STKI www.stki.info 3
Traditional KM Problems • Built as stand-alone repositories, not connected to everyday processes • Bringing the right information to the right user at the right time remains a challenge • Categorization is problematic • “We Built it and they still didn’t come” • From lack of information ---- to Too much Information 4
Web 2.0 Internal Impact: The New Age KM A Cultural Attitude – user centricity A set of technologies – AJAX, RSS Best Practices for Collaboration – Blogs, Wikis, Tagging, Communities The Problems with Web 2.0-oriented KM: hard to maintain consistency & quality, overflow of information All Rights Reserved @Einat Shimoni, STKI www.stki.info 5
Internal Blogs Benefits: • Capture of knowledge (Organizational memory) • “Flattening” of the organization • Top-management get direct feedback from employees • Expert blogs slowly develop into “communities of practice” (CoPs) 6
Internal Wikis Internal Wikis examples: Enterpedia User manuals (employees and customers contributions) Teamwork and communication Project Coordination and Management (people, project summary, relevant documentation, client) The result: fewer emails, project repository, newcomers don’t “miss” anything Example: Dresdner’s IT department for documentation of a new S/W project. Project-related e-mail volume decreased by 75%, meeting times cut by 50%, wiki contains 2,000 pages and is widely used 7
Web 2.0 Systems Definition “Systems that harness network effects to get better the more people use them” - Tim O’Reilly 8 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Web 2008: Wisdom of Crowds 9 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Web 2.0 for Internal KM: Definitions Wikis: “A quick and simple method of building databases and Internet sites in which the content is written, edited, and reviewed by the surfers”. Blogs: (short for Web log) “A blog is a personal diary in which the blogger writes posts that Internet surfers can read and usually also respond to”. RSS (Really Simple Syndication): “RSS is an easy, effective, and low-cost tool for collecting relevant sources of information and providing users with links to the content of interest”. Source: 10 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Web 2.0 concepts, tools & examples Source: Ed Yourdon 11
Web 2.0: User is at the center 12
What is Web 3.0? Source: Ed Yourdon 13
Web 2.0 for Internal KM Hard to maintain consistency & quality Creates an overflow of information Unlike the web, no economies of scale for the enterprise 14 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Web 2.0 for Internal KM Old model has largely failed Excellent practices for collaboration Wikis has proven very effective for project teams SNA (Social Network analysis) teach about informal organizational structures Source: Byeday 15 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Main Differences Traditional KM: Expensive, IT-dependent, complex Web 2.0 KM: Cheap, simple to set up, run and use Traditional KM: Top-Bottom, Centrally Managed, controlled Web 2.0 KM: Bottom-up, decentralized, not “controlled” Traditional KM: “The larger the org - the harder it gets” Web 2.0 KM: The larger – the more “searchable” 16 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Have organizations entered Enterprise 2.0*? (Source: Cutter) Planning Already im plem entation launched Not at all 7% 8% 33% Early Experim ents 18% Gathering info 34% A third of worldwide orgs are gathering info, another third have started… * Enterprise 2.0: The implementation of Web 2.0 for enterprise needs. Doesn’t include client-facing initiatives 17 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Web 2.0 for Internal KM 18 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Common problems Hard to turn employees into bloggers, taggers, wikiers? Those who have the most valuable knowledge have the least spare time Not for any purpose / any type of organization Determining the right degree of control is hard The Problem: Lack of information Too much data! 19 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Recommendations • Web 2.0 as Best Practices for knowledge sharing Start with the existing communities First step towards Blogs: track down experts! Wiki: excellent for project-related content Use tracking and monitoring Invest in UI (make needed adjustments for non-technical users) 20 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Information Systems What about Systems that support Innovation? 21 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
MEGA Application Trends: The Applications “Mix” • 70% - 90% of IT activities are about infrastructure / commodity type activities • What about innovation? Source: Nicholas Carr 22 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Innovation Tools http://www.innovationtools.com • Idea generation & evaluation • Supporting brainstorming • Mind mapping 23 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
How do you support Innovation? (Source: Cutter IT survey 2008) 24 All Rights Reserved @STKI Moshav Bnei Zion, Israel +972 9 74 444 74 www.stki.info
Common problems Can you turn employees into bloggers, taggers, wiki-writers? The ones who have the most valuable business knowledge have the least spare time of all Creating information overflows, not “organized” enough Not for any purpose Not for any organization How “managed” should it be? All Rights Reserved @Einat Shimoni, STKI www.stki.info 25
Recommendations • Web 2.0 as Best Practices for knowledge sharing Start with communities that are ALREADY sharing today First step towards Blogs: track down the experts! Wiki: excellent tool for project-related content Use tracking and monitoring to understand what’s being used and what else is needed Need to invest in UI (adjust it to the non-technical user) 26
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