To make sure you are up to date with Enterprise 2.0 news E20portal.com has put together a roundup of the significant industry reports, events and vendor updates from the last few weeks:

New Industry reports and resources

McKinsey Web 2.0 Enterprise report - McKinsey, the US consultancy, released ‘Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey Results’ based on a survey of 1988 executives. The report shows usage of E20 technologies is increasing, however experiences are varied and tool usage is changing. This report resulted in much blogsphere activity including: Hadley Reynolds of FastForward and Patti Anklam of AppGap. E20portal.com has been running a series of special reports on the 'Industry Researchers' to compare and summarize their findings. These reports include, Market Research suggests Enterprise 2.0 confusion and How big is the Enterprise 2.0 pie?.  

In our follow up to ‘Market Research suggests Enterprise 2.0 confusion’ we explore analyst predictions for the future of the Enterprise 2.0 market.

Early this year Forrester released a report predicting that the ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’ market would be worth $4.6 billion by 2013. In October 2007 Radicati predicted that the global ‘Business Social Software’ market would reach $3.3 billion by 2011. In July 2007 Gartner had predicted a very different figure: $707 million revenue for ‘Enterprise Social Software’ by 2011.

Are these apples-for-apples comparisons? Who should we believe?

In a new series of articles, E20portal.com will be assessing recent Enterprise 2.0 reports from leading industry analysts and research organisations. In our first article we explore the awareness and perception of Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0.

Our recent featured blog post from Bill Ives and Andrew McAfee’s 'Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration' both point out that Web 2.0 for consumers is not the same as Web 2.0 in the enterprise.  KPMG's 2007 report - 'Enterprise 2.0: Future or Fad?' - defines key Enterprise 2.0 terms from a business perspective and describes how Enterprise 2.0 can bring real business value.

Forrester Research however regularly uses the term ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’. The lack of a single reference term among analysts continues to create confusion.  This confusion may inhibit the uptake of new business oriented tools because many businesses are wary of giving users access to consumer Web 2.0 products.

This is the second in a series of articles in which E20portal.com will be featuring some of the best blog's from the world of Enterprise 2.0.

Andrew McAfee is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He coined the term 'Enterprise 2.0' in the Spring 2006 MIT Sloan Management Review article: Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration. Andrew discusses the impact of information technology (IT) on businesses and their leaders at his influential Harvard Business School Blog.

	Andrew P. McAfee
	Associate Professor of Business Administration
	Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. His current research includes an exploration of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used within the enterprise, and what their impact is likely to be.

We have selected five of Andrew's most informative and thought-provoking blog posts from the past two years. In these featured entries Andrew explores alternatives to overloaded email and discusses the organisational challenges of technological and cultural change. The posts can be read in full by following the title links below . . .