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Euan Semple has selected several posts for our latest featured blog. Euan has extensive real world experience of Enterprise 2.0 cultural adoption in the enterprise. He uses his experience as an independent social computing consultant. Euan has a personal and business blog, he also writes for the Fastforward blog. Euan is a regular international speaker on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0.  | Euan Semple
| | Independent advisor and consultant | | Euan Semple is an independent advisor on social computing for business. He is a well known writer, thinker and public speaker on the subject and in recognition of his many accomplishments he was voted Information Professional Of The Year (2005) by Information World Review. |
Euan has selected five of his most interesting and thought-provoking blog posts from the past two years. In these featured entries Euan explores the easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0, individual responsiveness and openness to change, and how to actively encouraged the adoption of Enterprise 2.0. He also looks at the reasons why companies fail at Enterprise 2.0. The posts can be read in full by following the title links below . . .
9th March, 2007 "DO NOTHING, GET OUT OF THE WAY and KEEP THE ENERGY LEVELS UP" In this post Euan summarises the the key approaches to introducing social computing with Enterprise 2.0 tools.
17th October, 2006 "There will for some time to come be an element of risk in working in the new ways that are now possible and even longer before organisations reach a tipping point and it becomes the norm. One of the main things I learned watching what happened when we did this at the BBC was that as individuals and collectively you have to be very, very patient." Euan calls upon his experiences of individual and organisational change at a 23,000 staff enterprise. "Forums have been around for years and years, blogs have been around for six and it took us four years to get where we did".
Euan looks at the risks of working in a new way and the shift in expectations of the workplace.
January 24, 2007
"The technologies we are talking about here, whether we call them social computing or Enterprise 2.0, are inherently social. They are about people and the associations they make both between bits of information and with each other" Euan shares two key lessons learned and discusses how Enterprise 2.0 helps foster innovation and creativity within the workplace.
January 16, 2007 "Corporate IT guys been brought up to manage risk rather than creativity and the free wheeling, individualist nature of Enterprise 2.0 scares the wits out of a lot of them. Even the word social makes them jumpy" In this post Euan reflects on his experiences with corporate IT departments, he also provides some suggestions on how to overcome the challenges.
June 10, 2008 "1. They think it is about technology" Euan lists the top eight reasons why most companies' Enterprise 2.0 efforts will fail. More Featured Blogs from E20portal.com
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