The Semantic E 2.0 Web (E 3.0)

Enterprise 2.0 is young, but it is maturing.  Many organizations have been busy creating their E 2.0 Platforms with open source software and others have been implementing vendor products.  We are seeing a good trend of more vendors focusing on standards, which will help support integration.  Supporting standards, especially Semantic Web (Web 3.0) will help support surfacing collective intelligence.  Web 3.0 technology helps computers and systems understand the meaning of information.  These new Enterprise 3.0 Platforms will go beyond Social Networking / Collaboration tools and will support predictive markets to increase business value in organizations.

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Andrew McAfee on Enterprise 2.0 video

Intro to the Semantic Web video

The Semantic Web of Data Tim Berners-Lee video

Using Animal Behavior to Organize Our World video

Collective Intelligence in the Real World video

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1. The Learning Layer Has Potential to Push the Envelope of Enterprise 2.0
2. Six Social Business Trends To Watch
3. Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Patterns: Collective Intelligence
4. Enterprise 2.0 Collective Intelligence Tools
5. Getting Real with Enterprise 2.0

Great presentation by Oscar Berg and friends!

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Who is on your “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week?

Here are amazing people that have connected me to new friends and new ideas this week. You might be familiar with “Fantasy Football Teams” , well this is my “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week. I recommend following these smart, creative people on Twitter.

	Curious about the business impact of technology http://twitter.com/amcafee
	Passionate about communication, knowledge sharing, collaboration and innovation enabled by Web 2.0 / E2.0 / social principles and technologies. http://twitter.com/oscarberg
	Provocateur, enterprise strategist, disruptive technologist. Business strategy,vendor selection,software contracts expert. Founding partner – Altimeter. Club DJ http://twitter.com/rwang0
	Gov 2.0/open government evangelist at O’Reilly Media. Co-chair of Gov 2.0 Expo 2010. Homebrewer, foodie, farmer in the city. http://twitter.com/laurelatoreilly
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Solis http://twitter.com/briansolis

Implementing Enterprise 2.0 in your organization can be very difficult without a clear strategy.  Creating a clear strategy plan can be difficult too, unless you have a few well defined goals. These goals should be simple enough for anyone to understand.

Enterprise 2.0 Vision Statement

The first goal should be creating a simple vision statement for your Enterprise 2.0 Solution.  Your E 2.0 vision statement is a long term view that sums up the benefits of your Enterprise 2.0 Solution.  This should automatically paint a picture in a person’s mind of how they are connected to the mission.  Your vision statement should be short, simple, and exciting.

Enterprise 2.0 Mission Statement

The second goal should be creating a simple mission statement of your Enterprise 2.0 Solution.  This E 2.0 Mission Statement should be short and simple with just a few (non-tech) sentences that defines the fundamental purpose of your Enterprise 2.0 Solution and what it does to achieve it’s vision.  This should not contain any vendor specific information and be simple enough for a child to understand.  You Mission Statement should have some “Zing” and not sound dry and boring.  Your marketing people can help you polish this and make it almost sound like a song.

Seven Simple Secrets of Enterprise 2.0 Strategy

In a previous article, “There is no Enterprise 2.0” I wrote about The Practice of Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Patterns and included these seven simple secrets of Enterprise 2.0 Strategy.  The original article covered several ideas and contained many resources, but I thought sharing this here would be more simple.

1. Have a plan that maps to business objectives and goals
2. Your audience is your strategy
3. Design for interaction
4. The more problems you solve, the more success you will have
5. Solutions with Extensibility have more value
6. Sharable data (APIs/Web Services) creates flexibility
7. Think Platform of Apps

Why Keep Enterprise 2.0 Strategy Simple?

Business, Culture, and Technology are complex topics.  The full Enterprise 2.0 Implementation process is a very complex topic.  Starting with a small, well definded foundation of your full strategy and plans can help with decision making.  You can look back at these statements when making decisions about next steps.  If the next step does not align with these statements, then move on.  Having a Vision Statement and a Mission Statement for your Enterprise 2.0 Solution are the first steps to Enterprise 2.0 Adoption.

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Who is on your “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week?

Here are just amazing people that have connected me to new friends and new ideas this week. You might be familiar with “Fantasy Football Teams” , well this is my “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week. I recommend following these smart, creative people on Twitter.

	Futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and author. Current focus: future of influence and future of the enterprise http://twitter.com/rossdawson
	Hi I’m Susan from NC, Social Media Enthusiast & Strategist. I create social media campaigns to help build awareness. ♥ Music, Movies & More! http://twitter.com/BuzzEdition
	Founder and CEO of The Lab. My primary interests are Management, BI, Social, CRM, Mobile, SMM, Common Sense Business, and Government 2.0. Consultant. Analyst. http://twitter.com/JohnFMoore
	Producer, Gov 2.0 Radio. Investigator. Asimovian. New media strategist and speaker for government and activism. adriel(at)adrielhampton.com (personal opinions) http://twitter.com/adrielhampton
	President, New Marketing Labs. More? http://bit.ly/cbbio . email: blog at chrisbrogan dot com http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan

• Understanding Culture
• Harnessing Technology
• Empowering Others

Trends about our culture today show us people are busy and tolerance for complicated things seems to be getting lower with each passing day.  Twitter tapped this culture trend of time commitment by keeping post limited to 140 characters and with it’s User Friendly / People Focused Design.  The Mobile Market is exploding, more people own mobile devices than computers.  Twitter tapped this trend by integrating a mobile strategy early in their plan.  People like things to fit their needs, this is why Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) should be a critical part of any technology strategy.  Twitter empowers people through it’s API with the ability to share custom information across multiple environments.

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I actually have a few more than five favorite places.  I hope you don’t mind.

The Famous Twitter Sketch

You can see the birth of the idea for Twitter in this sketch and you can read Jack Dorsey’s thoughts about this sketch here.  Notice the simplicity of the design and how the idea of sharing across multiple channels was an early thought.  The discovery (”find-em”) part toward the bottom is a very smart piece to include early in the design too.  Sharing ideas (Collaboration) is the main point of Enterprise 2.0.  This sketch reminds us of how a simple idea, shared with others can grow into something beyond your imagination.

Twitter Talk at TED

Evan Williams of Twitter talks about integrating his ideas about SMS with Jack Dorsey’s ideas about Twitter.  Evan goes on to talk about the Fundamentals of Twitter.  He quickly describes how people discover uses of Twitter for Business and in Government.

A great quote here is, “One of the many ways that users shaped the evolution of Twitter”.  I can’t wait to here this in the Enterprise, “One of the many ways that USERS shaped the evolution of Enterprise 2.0″.

Twitter’s design and API make this tool so simple to use, that a common house plant can communicate to the world.   This reminds us of the power of simplicity.  Technology should lower barriers, not create new ones.

“Going far beyond the original idea” is another great quote.  I believe Enterprise 2.0 is designed to support doing this very thing.

There are many things taught about innovation in this video

Twitter CEO Evan Williams speaks to users in Tokyo

“What we learned time and time again from listening…”  is an important quote in this video.  You can also see the chart of all the tweets over the course of the World Cup.  This got me thinking about what would happen to your business if an idea had this much collaboration through Enterprise 2.0 tools.

Biz Stone and Evan Williams on Twitter

In this more recent video we hear Biz and Evan talk about how relationships are important.  Listening to customers can help avoid PR disasters and improve brand loyalty.  A little communication can reverse a customers decision about going to your competitor.  They also share some important thoughts on privacy.

How Twitter Changed My Life

This is an impressive presentation about Twitter and how to harness it’s value.

A Collection of Twitter Case Studies

Twitter provides a nice collection of case studies.  These case studies include reports from big businesses, non-profits, and government.

The Power of the API

In the first video Evan mentions there were over 2,000 applications using Twitter’s API.  Their API enables people to share filtered customized data across multiple environments.  The ability to share information across multiple environments increases the opportunities for collaboration.  What if  your Enterprise 2.0 Solution had an API to support sharing data when you need it, where you need it?

Twitter API Mashups and Apps on Programmable Web

You can discover and learn from a huge collection of APIs and developers at Progammable Web.

Twitter API Mashups and Apps on Yahoo Pipes

You can discover some new ways of using Twitter at Yahoo Pipes.

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Who is on your “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week?

Here are just a few new friends that have connected me to new people and new ideas this week.  You might be familiar with “Fantasy Football Teams” and such, well this is my “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week.  I recommend following these smart, creative people on Twitter.

	Communication strategist. Digital Something. Connector. Entrepreneur. Anime & SciFi lover. http://twitter.com/db
	VP of Product at Spigit, the SaaS enterprise innovation management platform. And a Dad who misses running marathons. http://twitter.com/bhc3
	IT consultant, managing software development/ integration projects for a living; .Net, CMS, intranet, collaborative workplace, knowledge management, e-learning http://twitter.com/dzhu
	Technology consultant/architect at IBM in Cambridge MA, enterprise search, social computing; piano, a cappella, cyclist, origami, iPhone; my tweets are my own! http://twitter.com/eric_andersen
	social media strategist, technological optimist, blogger, consultant, father, spreker, innovatie, php, wordpress | I collect and tweet interesting links http://twitter.com/rickmans

5 Twitter Success Secrets for Enterprise 2.0

• Listen (people, users, customers, partners, metrics)
• Respond (people, users, customers, partners, metrics)
• Empower Others
• APIs Rock
• Practice “People Centered” Design

It’s exciting to see Enterprise 2.0 becoming more mature.  More Enterprise 2.0 vendors are focusing on standards and adopting Web 2.0 technologies.  This is actually very impressive when you think about Enterprise 2.0 was born in the Spring of 2006.  Andrew McAfee talks about the birth of E 2.0 in this article Enterprise 2.0 vs. SOA.  More Enterprise 2.0 solutions are also taking advantage of AJAX technologies to improve the user experience.  AJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications.  We are also starting to see a trend for the use of Cloud Computing in the Enterprise.  Cloud Computing is proving itself as an approach to cutting IT costs while improving innovation.  You can read more about this in Dion Hinchcliffe’s article, “Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam“.  The big news for the Summer of 2010 in the world of Enterprise 2.0, is the release of Presto 3.0.  You can use Presto to empower people in the Enterprise with the ability to mix, match, and mash data into apps powering your own Enterprise App Store.

Power and Freedom through Enterprise Apps

The Presto Platform empowers application developers and power users to create, customize and share Enterprise Apps mashups for faster decisions and better business results. Presto provides a solution for every part of the Enterprise App lifecycle, from Services to Mashups to Apps to the App Store, while also meeting the toughest enterprise security and governance requirements. Equally important, Presto empowers your high-value employees to take advantage of your organization’s information assets – large applications like ERP, CRM, and SFA – and quickly marry them with external data sources such as Web services and news feeds to make better decisions from this disparate information.  [ Learn More ]

“The App store model that Apple has proved so successfully with the iPhone is becoming the next frontier when it comes to next-generation software distribution. And it’s one that creates clear value for both customers and companies alike.” ~Dion Hinchcliffe @dhinchcliffe

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Here are just a few new friends that have connected me to new people and new ideas this week.  You might be familiar with “Fantasy Football Teams” and such, well this is my “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week.  I bet we would see some very innovative solutions, if this team worked together.

Who would be on your Fantasy Innovation Team this week?

	Mobile platform strategist, consultant, trainer, writer, blogger, and speaker. Mobile browser compatibility expert. http://twitter.com/ppk
	Motivated, vivacious, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, chocolate-obsessed social media enthusiast, loving life as an editorial assistant at @mashable http://twitter.com/ericaswallow
	consultant and writer who helps firms and individuals with their blogs and other social media http://twitter.com/BillIves
	i think about how teams solve hard problems, coffee, chocolate and my kids. this annoys my husband. Gig: Dir, Prod Mktg.@OpenText for Social Workplace http://twitter.com/deb_lavoy
	Integrations: Atlassian, E2.0, Alfresco, Fed Search, SCRM, etc – Eng. svcs & resales. Experts only, to fuel business – customer focused for good journeys… http://twitter.com/ellenfeaheny

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OpenAjax Hub 2.0 Interactive Dashboard

How OpenAjax Hub 2.0 Addresses the Security Challenges

The launch of Jive Widget Studio

Opera Widgets and Ajax: Connecting to multiple servers

ZK Enterprise Framework

Inception is defined as the beginning or creation of something.

The Inception movie reminds us of the value of an idea.  The plot of the movie is about implanting an idea into someone else to change an outcome.  In the movie they do this be entering people’s dreams.  A dream is when your conscience mind and your sub-conscience mind communicate most.

Have You Ever?

Have you ever drove your car to a place while doing some deep thinking?  Did you find yourself in a state of surprise when you realized you were at your destination?  It’s as if you sub-conscience mind realized that you were busy and just took over the driving task.  The sub-conscience mind is powerful, this is the place for clear thought without the “white noise”.  This is the naked mind that influences our behavior.  Ideas can be planted easier here, than in our dreams.  Great speakers and advertising agencies spend a lot of money and energy on techniques for talking to the naked mind we call our sub-conscience.  These techniques include Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP),  Subliminal Messaging, Suggestive Communication, and many other strategies for affecting human behavior and emotions.  Many of these techniques are used to plant ideas in peoples minds.

What if more people used these techniques to plant great ideas?

Inception: The Movie

The movie, Inception is amazing.  You should see it at the theater a few times before buying the DVD.

The Inception / Toy Story 3 Movie Mashup

The Inception / Toy Story 3 movie mashup is very impressive.  This is another example of how talented people can combine things we already know to create something new.  You can see these movies in a whole new light in this video.

Planting Ideas About What You Eat

You can see how Kentucky Fried Chicken wants to plant the idea of how your dollar has little (small) value compared to their sandwich in this video.

Planting Ideas About What You Drink

You can see how Coca-Cola plants an idea about how their drinks are sexy in this video.

Planting Ideas is Nothing New

You can see several examples of planting ideas in this video.

Planting Ideas Also Works on Ad People

You can see Turning the Tables for Idea Planting on Advertising Agencies is funny in this video.

How to Implant Ideas with Everyday Conversation

You can also learn how to implant ideas.  There are many resources available on the web and here are a couple books.

NLP: The New Technology of Achievement

NLP has already helped millions of people overcome fears, increase confidence, enrich relationships, and achieve greater sucess. Now the NLP Comprehensive Training Team has written a book that reveals how to use this breakthrough technology to achieve whatever you want.

Short for neuro-linguistic programming, NLP is a revolutionary approach to human communication and development. In NLP: The New Technology of Achievement, you’ll be guided step-by-step through specific programs for learning the characeristics of top achievers and creating a blueprint for unlimited sucess. Plus, an all-new twenty-one-day program created especially for this book provides you with the essential skills you’ll need to achieve peak performance in business and life.

Persuasion Skills Black Book: Practical NLP Language Patterns for Getting The Response You Want

The Persuasion Skills Black Book is a manual for quickly learning some very powerful hypnotic language patterns that you can use in practical, real world situations.

These patterns are not necessarily about sending people into a hypnotic trance but just a way to move you from one perspective on an issue to another. By the book’s end you will have the structures in place to make more money, attract more people and have more fun.

Just some of the applications include:

• Managers: powerfully motivate your teams
• Leaders: inspire people to your vision
• Parents: protect and encourage your children
• Teachers: get your classes to commit to learning
• Coaches: build client confidence and commitment
• Sales Pros: obliterate objections and get to ‘yes’
• Marketers: boost your response with compelling copy
• Couples: strengthen and build your relationship
• Singles: attract and impress potential partners
• Employees: manage your boss and gain promotions
• Customers: get your complaints handled properly
• Service Staff: turn angry customers into best friends
• Job Seekers: ace interviews and win the job you want
• All of us: get more of what you want from life

Apps For Citizens

Bringing innovation and culture of Tech to Government

Government 2.0: Code for America. Create. Collaborate. Leaders from technology and government, including Mark Zuckerberg, Biz Stone, Aneesh Chopra, Caterina Fake, and Tim O’Reilly, ask you to apply to be a Code for America fellow and help bring the innovation and culture of the tech industry to city government in this video

Learn more and apply now: http://codeforamerica.org/fellows

I support bringing innovation & culture of Tech to Government.

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Hello, I’m glad to see you here today! Thank you for your patience while I try to get back on track with my blogging habits.  I have been experimenting with putting myself into situations that help me stretch beyond my comfort zone.  Some of these activities include volunteering, attending events that I know nothing about, and also simply starting conversations with people I don’t know.  I find myself learning the most from people that are very different from me and wanted to share three ideas on how Diversity Accelerates Innovation.

Avoiding Group Think

You may of heard the phrase “Birds of a feather flock together”.  I recommend spreading your wings and fly with some new birds to new places.  You may also want to swap your wings for gills.  This is so easy today with the power of Social Networks in the Enterprise and around the globe.  It’s also super easy to invite new friends to share lunch or coffee.

Discovering Your Passion

We live in an age of “information overload”, so it’s good to find some quiet time to process the information you learned during the course of the day.  Taking the time to evaluate how information, your connections and environment align with your values can help you discover new ways to fuel your passions.  This time can also help you discover new passions.

Standing Up and Standing Out

What value does the “yes man/woman” add to anything?  The “yes man” can easily be replaced and at very little cost.  Blending in is a method of being invisible.  The greatest change we see in the world comes form people that Stand Up and Stand Out.  A certain liberation occurs when we reach deep within ourselves to find the courage to share new ideas in a collaborative manner.

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Here are just a few new friends that have connected me to new people and new ideas this week.  You might be familiar with “Fantasy Football Teams” and such, well this is my “Fantasy Innovation Team” this week.  I bet we would see some very innovative solutions, if this team worked together.

Who would be on your Fantasy Innovation Team this week?

	Blogger for @Huffingtonpost & OpinionEditorial, Children’s Book Author (1st book coming in late 2010), Marketing Strategist, Activist, Master Surfer! http://twitter.com/2morrowknight
	Make a difference in gov, biz, & cmtys. Focused on leadership, strategy, communications, marketing, performance management, & IT. Cycling & sports enthusiast. http://twitter.com/sanchezjb
	Interactive strategist and producer. Makin’ it happen since 1980. CEO of iStrategyLabs. Co-Creator of #DCWEEK. Fmr TV exec. http://twitter.com/corbett3000
	Gov 2.0 Innovator. CEO. Founder, Silberberg Innovations and Gov20LA. Think Fast. Don’t be afraid. http://twitter.com/IdeaGov
	eMarketing trends and technology enthusiast. Believes in balance and simplicity of design + form + function. Mompreneur. Foodie. Art. Music. ♥ iPhone. MAC/PC. http://twitter.com/2cre8

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O’Reilly’s 2010 Open Source Convention (OSCON) Videos

OSCON is the place to be inspired and challenged, renew bonds to community, make new connections, and find ways to give back to the open source movement. OSCON has also become one of the most important places to make open source related announcements, and to unveil projects and products. As open source becomes fully integrated into the corporate environment, OSCON helps to define, maintain, and extend the identity of what it means to be open source.

Getting Real About Enterprise 2.0

The web has become social Home E- Social pages commerce Media 1.0 One-way & static 1.X Dynamic & interactive 2.0 Two-way & social E-mail Dynamic Websites Blogs Social Software Static Websites Portals Wikis Discussion forums Communities RSS Instant Messaging Agents Mashups Chat Rooms Video Conferencing Pod- & webcasts Web services Social Networks Collaborative filtering Social Bookmarking VOIP Folksonomies Social search Micro-blogging Video sharing …and much more

Flipboard’s Crazy Launch And Its Plan To Save Media

Flipboard is a beautiful iPad app that looks at the content your friends are sharing on Twitter and Facebook and reformats it into a digital, interactive magazine.  The consumer reaction to the app since its launch last week has been nothing short of completely nuts.

The Four Phases of Design Thinking

What can people in business learn from studying the ways successful designers solve problems and innovate? On the most basic level, they can learn to question, care, connect, and commit — four of the most important things successful designers do to achieve significant breakthroughs.

The Subtle Art of Provoking Serendipity

A teacher of ours at the GreenMBA, Julianne Maurseth, likes to say, “People gather and things happen.”  And what is the most wonderful thing that can happen when people gather? That would be serendipity.

Serendipity is the emergence of desirable novelty from a chance encounter, the discovery of something wonderful, unknown and unpredictable. It is the act of unexpected cross-pollination, the seed of something new.

The Gov 2.0 Cloud Computing Green Light

Cloud Computing is internet-based resource virtualization that provides cost effective Software as a Service.

EMA projects cloud computing to be a $40-$50 billion industry by the end of 2011, growing to $160 billion by 2015 — predicting 100 percent growth each year for four years. [ Learn more ]

Google Apps is the first suite of cloud computing applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation from the U.S. government. The FISMA law applies to all information systems in use by U.S. federal government agencies to help ensure they’re secure. The federal government’s General Services Administration has reviewed the documentation of our security controls and issued an authorization to operate, the official confirmation of our FISMA certification and accreditation. [ Learn more ]

You can learn more about Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification & accreditation for Google Apps here.

Google Apps for Government released. What about the rest of us?

My new friend Brad McCarty wrote a great article about Google Apps for Government here.  He asked the question, “What about the rest of us?” Brad also has very interesting things to share on Twitter. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/BradTNW

Los Angeles chooses Google Apps

You can quickly see why Cloud Computing and Google App technology makes sense in this video.

What is Cloud Computing?

Salesforce does a great job of explaining Cloud Computing in plain English in this video.

Computing, a Quick Look in the Cloud

You can get a deeper look into Cloud Architecture in this Oracle Cloud Computing Strategy presentation.

How to Make Google Apps

This trend of Apps in Government and in the Enterprise is the one to watch.  The benefits of “App Stores” has already been proven by Apple, Google, and several other technology leaders.  You can get a good idea of how the Google Cloud works in this presentation.

What About Enterprise App Stores?

Sharing Enterprise Apps in a Secure Environment

An Enterprise App is most valuable when it is used by more than just the individual who created it. The real value of Apps is in their collaborative nature. To accelerate the reuse of Enterprise Apps, you need an Enterprise App Store. The App Store gives organizations a place where apps can be re-discovered outside of the immediate group that created the App. [ Learn more ]

The temperature in the Washington DC area has been reaching record highs and the nights are even hot.  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is hot too, thanks to Enterprise 2.0.  An Enterprise Platform goes beyond Facebook behind the firewall.  The Twitter Platform demonstrates the value of mobile integration and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).  Enterprise Architecture is about more than SOA, SaaS, PaaS, or Cloud Computing.  Thankfully there are some very bright people sharing their ideas about Arechitecture for Enterprise 2.0.

New Enterprise 2.0 Architecture requires more than technology / information integration.  It’s about using technology to help accomplish business objectives.  We also see how using Social Media channels for external communications has tremendous value.  These communications go beyond announcements, by creating real value with dialog.

There are many ideas about the approach to Enterprise Architecture.  You can review some of these ideas at various working groups like TOGAF, OpenEAI, and many others.  The main goal of these groups and most developers is leveraging the Standards to improve interoperability.

Enterprise 2.0 Gives CPR to SOA

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been around for a long time, but Enterprise 2.0 has given a new breath of life to SOA.  The concept of SOA is hot because the idea of integrating multiple systems and exposing them as services adds value to existing infrastructure investments.  However, the process is complex for systems designed without SOA in mind.  You can easily see how the values of SOA align with the Enterprise.  You can also see the SOA Guiding Principles in the SOA Manifesto.

• Business value over technical strategy
• Strategic goals over project-specific benefits
• Intrinsic interoperability over custom integration
• Shared services over specific-purpose implementations
• Flexibility over optimization
• Evolutionary refinement over pursuit of initial perfection

Web Oriented Architecture (WOA)

Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) is a simple approach for identifying resources to be shared in a secure manner across multiple environments to support interoperability.  New Enterprise Architecture has finally moved beyond copying features of established Social Networking Platforms.  A new trend has emerged which takes a deeper look at WHY these platforms are successful.  Asking WHY, lead to discovering the expotential value of Web Oriented Architecture (WOA).  This approach is cool because its taking us back to the basic architecture of the World Wide Web and supports the concept of “Linked Data”.  You can see the “Linked Data” Gov 2.0 Expo video by the inventor of the WWW for more information.

web-oriented-architecture-WOA

The Four Core Values of Agile Development

We also see how WOA brings us closer to the values of Agile Development.  These values are very similar to the core values of the future enterprise.  You can review the Manifesto for Agile Software Development here.

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

Cloud Computing and Enterprise 2.0

Beyond a “Birds Eye” View

Real Enterprise 2.0 is about using technology to improve collaboration and communication.  This collaboration and communication includes people internal and external to the organization.  These are people in your organization, business partners, customers, and people willing to contribute value to help you achieve your business goals.  The future Enterprise will place more value on it’s culture and we will see a vast improvement in products & services based on these improved collaborative efforts.  Communication will become more fluid as technology and user interfaces improve business interaction.  Organizations will continue to have a need to formulate and filter ideas and communication in safe, secure ways.  Successful future businesses will have more Complete Enterprise Solutions.  These solutions will include centralized management of distributed channels.

Cloud Computing and Enterprise 2.0

Connecting the Dots

How Enterprise 2.0, Cloud Computing, and something known as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) have converged on top of the same “problem space” to become the essential fabric for how we solve the business problems in our organizations. by Dion Hinchcliffe

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Five Faces You Should Know

Enterprise Architecture is easier when other people help you understand it’s value.  Here are five people you should get to know.

Dion Hinchcliffe: Internationally recognized business strategist, enterprise architect, keynote speaker, author, blogger, and consultant on Web 2.0, SOA, and next-gen business.

John Crupi is the CTO of JackBe Corporation. As CTO he is entrusted with understanding market forces and business drivers to drive JackBe’s technical vision and strategy. He has 20 years experience in OO and enterprise distributed computing.  NOTE: You should also take a look at The Enterprise App Store.

Mark Fidelman is the next generation enterprise executive. He currently works at MindTouch and blogs about Enterprise 2.0, Social Documentation and more.

Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Socialtext.  Lee came to Socialtext from Adobe Systems, where he led Adobe’s enterprise marketing and vertical market segments.

Tom Graves His main field is ‘enterprise architecture’, but with an emphasis on strategy and futures, on complexity and sense-making, and on integrating IT with the rest of the business.

You can find more information about Enterprise Architecture by using this hash tag #entarch on Twitter.

It was very difficult limiting this list to only five people that know about using the Standards in Enteprise 2.0.  Do you know other brillant people that I missed?