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Where's the first place a cyber criminal looks for username and password when he wants to get access to a computer? That's right - on a Post-it Note or label on the computer keyboard or monitor. (If the movies are true, second place is probably in a slide-out return or drawer.)

But what if multiple people share a workstation? Easy. Check for the neatly typed spreadsheet that lists everyone's login credentials; choose someone you want to impersonate, and login. Presto!


Why bother with passwords at all?

This is a real picture and sadly, I see this kind of behavior all too often. I even wrote about this problem and proposed a solution four years ago in a post entitled, "Lower your standards; lower your stress".

Seriously folks, most network admins I know work very hard to secure the information assets of their organization. Yet, their efforts to protect these assets are undermined when people do stuff like this.

Network and computer security requires more than a digital audit. Training and on-site inspections are mandatory to prevent stuff like this from happening. Obviously, in this organization, it isn't happening.

As far as this photo, in the interest of security, I won't name the company where I took this picture. I will, however, send them a link to this blog post.
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Where's the first place a cyber criminal looks for username and password when he wants to get access to a computer? That's right - on a Post-it Note or label on the computer keyboard or monitor. (If the movies are true, second place is probably in a slide-out return or drawer.)

But what if multiple people share a workstation? Easy. Check for the neatly typed spreadsheet that lists everyone's login credentials; choose someone you want to impersonate, and login. Presto!


Why bother with passwords at all?

This is a real picture and sadly, I see this kind of behavior all too often.  I even wrote about this problem and proposed a solution four years ago in a post entitled, "Lower your standards; lower your stress".

Seriously folks, most network admins I know work very hard to secure the information assets of their organization. Yet, their efforts to protect these assets are undermined when people do stuff like this.

Network and computer security requires more than a digital audit. Training and on-site inspections are mandatory to prevent stuff like this from happening. Obviously, in this organization, it isn't happening.

As far as this photo, in the interest of security, I won't name the company where I took this picture. I will, however, send them a link to this blog post.

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As much as I am looking forward to Lotusphere 2010, it's a long time to be away...
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As much as I am looking forward to Lotusphere 2010, it's a long time to be away...

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Friday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
I'll be arriving at the Dolphin Hotel late in the evening.

Saturday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
I expect to hang out at the hotel, acclimate to the east coast time difference, and work on my presentations.
3:30pm "BALD" - Bloggers Annual Lotusphere Dinner at the Big River Brewery on the Disney Boardwalk


Sunday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
Business development day. Haven't fully decided which sessions I'll be attending.
6:30pm Lotusphere 2010 Welcome Reception - Poolside at the Swan and Dolphin Resort


Monday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
8:00am Opening session (I will be sitting in the bloggers' area). I have several meetings throughout the day.
8:30pm Business Partner Reception at Disney's Atlantic Dance Hall

Tuesday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
This will be a very busy day for me. I've got a few meetings scheduled in the morning.
4:15pm Come join me for my presentation: IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes. Best Practices Session, BP302. It will take place at the Dolphin Hotel (Southern II). This session will show both expert and novice Notes users how they can use Lotus Notes coupled with proven best practices to make them immediately more productive.
6:00pm I'l
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Friday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
I'll be arriving at the Dolphin Hotel late in the evening.

Saturday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
I expect to hang out at the hotel, acclimate to the east coast time difference, and work on my presentations.
3:30pm  "BALD" - Bloggers Annual Lotusphere Dinner at the Big River Brewery on the Disney Boardwalk


Sunday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
Business development day.  Haven't fully decided which sessions I'll be attending.
6:30pm   Lotusphere 2010 Welcome Reception - Poolside at the Swan and Dolphin Resort


Monday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
8:00am   Opening session (I will be sitting in the bloggers' area).  I have several meetings throughout the day.
8:30pm   Business Partner Reception at Disney's Atlantic Dance Hall

Tuesday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
This will be a very busy day for me.  I've got a few meetings scheduled in the morning.
4:15pm  Come join me for my presentation:  IBM Lotus Notes and Me: Maximizing Personal Productivity with Lotus Notes.  Best Practices Session, BP302. It will take place at the Dolphin Hotel (Southern II).  This session will show both expert and novice Notes users how they can use Lotus Notes coupled with proven best practices to make them immediately more productive.
6:00pm   I'll be at the Team Studio Awards Reception - We are a finalist - Can't wait to see how we did!  We'll be at the Fresh Mediterranean Market Restaurant - Dolphin Hotel

Wednesday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
8:00am  I will be giving a presentation to the Lotus Foundations group in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
Will spend the day at a few meetings
5:30pm  I have a Birds of Feather session: Getting Things Done with IBM Lotus Notes”. We'll be at the Swan Hotel (Macaw 1).

Thursday
Look for Ryan or me in the Lotus Foundations Lab.
Closing session - wouldn't miss it.  Then off to play mini-golf with the bloggers - watch out windmills, here I come!

Friday
Hanging out at the hotel, getting "in" to empty, and doing my weekly review.

Saturday
Heading home to my incredible family who will all greet me at the airport with hugs and kisses.

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Fortunately, I know what I need to do and I have a good action management system to help me stay on top of things.

In addition to blogging, I'm trying to get a bunch of video clips from my recent interview with David Allen loaded up on the web. I'll post them to the Notes On Productivity Blog.

I'll post details of my LS10 sessions shortly.

If you want to meet at LS10, get in touch with me and we'll set something up.
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Fortunately, I know what I need to do and I have a good action management system to help me stay on top of things.

In addition to blogging, I'm trying to get a bunch of video clips from my recent interview with David Allen loaded up on the web. I'll post them to the Notes On Productivity Blog.

I'll post details of my LS10 sessions shortly.

If you want to meet at LS10, get in touch with me and we'll set something up.

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LOOKING BACK: A few notable accomplishments for 2009

January, 2009
- We launched the commercial version of eProductivity at Lotusphere
- David Allan and I presented at Lotusphere on using Notes Productively
- Ian and I received honorable mention in the TeamStudio Spotlight Award
- Ryan and I launched the Inside eProductivity Blog

March 2009
- Attended the GTD Summit to present eProductivity; Amy & Wendy helped
- Moderated a Productivity Panel at the GTD Summit
August
- Earned my Master's Degree in Information and Knowledge Management
- My emphasis was on enabling high performance knowledge work
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LOOKING BACK: A few notable accomplishments for 2009

January, 2009
- We launched the commercial version of eProductivity at Lotusphere
- David Allan and I presented at Lotusphere on using Notes Productively
- Ian and I received honorable mention in the TeamStudio Spotlight Award
- Ryan and I launched the Inside eProductivity Blog

March 2009
- Attended the GTD Summit to present eProductivity; Amy & Wendy helped
- Moderated a Productivity Panel at the GTD Summit
August
- Earned my Master's Degree in Information and Knowledge Management
- My emphasis was on enabling high performance knowledge work
September
- Attended the National Knowledge Management Conference

October
- Kathy and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary for the 20th time
- Taught MGT 430 Technology for Business Decision Making

November
- Presented a workshop on High Performance Knowledge Work
- Moderated a panel on Personal KM and Social Networking

December
- Bloggers post over 75 blog posts about eProductivity
-  And one I am very proud of: People in over 900 organizations in 50 countries are using eProductivity to get things done with Lotus Notes.
- I read all the way through my 1-year Bible in only 366 days!

I'm grateful for the love of my wife and children and I'm thankful to be able to serve with an awesome team of professionals at ICA/eProductivity. I also grateful for the group of key business and personal advisors; godly men who have provided guidance and mentoring along the way.

LOOKING FORWARD: A few goals for 2010
Lord willing, there are several goals on my list for 2010. These include:

• Launch of eProductivity 2.0, (based on Notes 8.5.1)
• Presenter at Lotusphere 2010 on using Notes Productively
• Introduction of eProductivity versions for mobile and cloud apps
• I look forward to teaching for The Master's College again: MGT 430 Technology for Business Decision Making
• Travel with my family
• I hope to present a paper at the National KM Conference
• I plan to present a workshop and main session on High Performance Knowledge Work at KMWORLD
• I will be working on my book on High Performance Knowledge Work
• Now that I'm done with school, and time-permitting, I hope to spend some time on my hobbies in robotics, CNC, mechanical music, and vintage computing

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Despite the title of this post, I won't presume to write book review of the Bible. As the inspired Word of God, it needs no review from me and there's nothing that I can say other than I am deeply moved, convicted, challenged, and inspired each time I read it. What I will write about is the format for this particular Bible. It's the New International (NIV) Translation which I really enjoy for casual reading. (For in-depth study of the Scriptures, I prefer a more traditional study Bible in either NKJ or NASB translation and I found it helpful to keep a study Bible at hand for those times I wanted to dig deeper.)

What I really appreciate is the presentation of the scriptures in chronological order. It reads as a story and the chronological reference makes it easier to consider the events in context. In addition, the editor, Dr. F. LaGard Smith, provides an ongoing narrative in the form of a brief commentary at the start of each day's reading to set context. This is my second time reading through this particular Bible cover-to-cover and I have enjoyed the experience. If you desire to read through the whole of God's Word in one year and leave the experience with a good contextual and topical overview, I can certainly recommend this approach.

Over the years, I have given away several of these Bibles to friends. Apparently the version I own has been updated. You can find the current version on Amazon here.
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Despite the title of this post, I won't presume to write book review of the Bible. As the inspired Word of God, it needs no review from me and there's nothing that I can say other than I am deeply moved, convicted, challenged, and inspired each time I read it. What I will write about is the format for this particular Bible. It's the New International (NIV) Translation which I really enjoy for casual reading. (For in-depth study of the Scriptures, I prefer a more traditional study Bible in either NKJ or NASB translation and I found it helpful to keep a study Bible at hand for those times I wanted to dig deeper.)

What I really appreciate is the presentation of the scriptures in chronological order. It reads as a story and the chronological reference makes it easier to consider the events in context. In addition, the editor, Dr. F. LaGard Smith, provides an ongoing narrative in the form of a brief commentary at the start of each day's reading to set context. This is my second time reading through this particular Bible cover-to-cover and I have enjoyed the experience. If you desire to read through the whole of God's Word in one year and leave the experience with a good contextual and topical overview, I can certainly recommend this approach.

Over the years, I have given away several of these Bibles to friends. Apparently the version I own has been updated. You can find the current version on Amazon here.

Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dxcomments/book-review-the-daily-bible-in-chronological-order http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/book-review-the-daily-bible-in-chronological-order?opendocument&comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:59:53 -0700 This evening, our local church held their annual Candelight Christmas Eve Celebration. Emily, Amy, Wendy, and Kelly sang "A Carol for Today."

It was beautiful. Wendy blogged about it, here.

Grace and Peace to you, this Christmas

Source: Wendy Mack: A Carol for Today
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Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/trackback?open&id=a-carol-for-today http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/a-carol-for-today Family Eric Mack http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/a-carol-for-today?opendocument&comments http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/a-carol-for-today This evening, our local church held their annual Candelight Christmas Eve Celebration. Emily, Amy, Wendy, and Kelly sang "A Carol for Today."

It was beautiful. Wendy blogged about it, here.

Grace and Peace to you, this Christmas

Source: Wendy Mack: A Carol for Today

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For development and testing, I maintain VMs with various versions of Lotus Notes and I use VMWARE to manage these. Since upgrading to 8.5.1, hoever, my system will freeze for 3-4 minutes and then return as if nothing had happened. It does this often -- but only when running the VMWARE Workstation.

Some more details:

My Host PC is a ThinkPad W500 fully loaded with 2.5Ghz Core2 Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, XP Sp3. and very few apps loaded, namely Notes 8.51 and the latest VMWARE Workstation 6.5.3 Build 185404.

Guest OS is Windows XP SP2, with 1.5GB ram allocated. When we run the VM, we have no apps running on host OS and in the guest PC the only app loaded is Notes 8.5.1 Client and Designer. In other words, before I launch the VM I exit out of Notes on my laptop.

If I open notes 8.5.1 in the guest PC and do nothing after a few minutes the entire system will freeze HOST & GUEST but then, after 3-4 minutes everything will return with no local of place or data - as if nothing were wrong.

I can't say that this is a Notes 8.5.1 issue. It could well be an issue with the current version of VMWARE Workstation. In fact, I would tend to suspect VMWARE as the cause as my entire computer hangs, not just the guest OS session.

Anyway, I thought I would put this out to the blogosphere in the hope that someone who has seen this before might comment and so that others may learn from the comments.

Oh, and one more symptom: From time to time, I will completely lose TCP support on my laptop and Notes will display this error on the status bar of the Notes client (on host).

"Replicator error, the TCP/IP protocol stack reported that it ran out of memory. Consult your network documentation to increase configured m
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For development and testing, I maintain VMs with various versions of Lotus Notes and I use VMWARE to manage these. Since upgrading to 8.5.1, hoever, my system will freeze for 3-4 minutes and then return as if nothing had happened. It does this often -- but only when running the VMWARE Workstation.

Some more details:

My Host PC is a ThinkPad W500 fully loaded with 2.5Ghz Core2 Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, XP Sp3. and very few apps loaded, namely Notes 8.51 and the latest VMWARE Workstation 6.5.3 Build 185404.

Guest OS is Windows XP SP2, with 1.5GB ram allocated. When we run the VM, we have no apps running on host OS and in the guest PC the only app loaded is Notes 8.5.1 Client and Designer. In other words, before I launch the VM I exit out of Notes on my laptop.

If I open notes 8.5.1 in the guest PC and do nothing after a few minutes the entire system will freeze HOST & GUEST but then, after 3-4 minutes everything will return with no local of place or data - as if nothing were wrong.

I can't say that this is a Notes 8.5.1 issue. It could well be an issue with the current version of VMWARE Workstation. In fact, I would tend to suspect VMWARE as the cause as my entire computer hangs, not just the guest OS session.

Anyway, I thought I would put this out to the blogosphere in the hope that someone who has seen this before might comment and so that others may learn from the comments.

Oh, and one more symptom: From time to time, I will completely lose TCP support on my laptop and Notes will display this error on the status bar of the Notes client (on host).

"Replicator error, the TCP/IP protocol stack reported that it ran out of memory. Consult your network documentation to increase configured memory, or reduce Notes connections by limiting clients (See SERVER_MAXSESSIONS parameter in Notes Admin Guide)" What;s strange is that this error appear on my workstation - not on the server as the error message would suggest...

Could this be an unstable VM? Or, a conflict with VMWARE and ECLIPSE? Or even operator error on my part? (That's been known to happen, too.)

Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dxcomments/challenges-with-vmware-workstation-6.5.3-and-notes-8.5.1 http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/challenges-with-vmware-workstation-6.5.3-and-notes-8.5.1?opendocument&comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:08:49 -0700 http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/trackback?open&id=did-you-buy-eproductivity-yourself-get-your-money-back http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/did-you-buy-eproductivity-yourself-get-your-money-back eProductivity Eric Mack http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/did-you-buy-eproductivity-yourself-get-your-money-back?opendocument&comments http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/did-you-buy-eproductivity-yourself-get-your-money-back
Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dxcomments/did-you-buy-eproductivity-yourself-get-your-money-back http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/did-you-buy-eproductivity-yourself-get-your-money-back?opendocument&comments Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:00:00 -0700 http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/trackback?open&id=how-a-virus-invades-your-body http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/how-a-virus-invades-your-body General Eric Mack http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/how-a-virus-invades-your-body?opendocument&comments http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/how-a-virus-invades-your-body
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Last year at Lotusphere 2009, we were told that conference attendance was up from the previous year. Since I did not attend LS08, I cannot make a comparison; however, the attendance - at least in the product showcase where I spent 3 days - seemed light.

As I think ahead to Lotusphere 2010, I wonder what it will be like this year.

If you are a vendor of products or services for Lotus Software, I'd be curious to get your thoughts on-line or off-line and I would be curious to know if you think we will see a lot of traffic in the product showcase this year.
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Last year at Lotusphere 2009, we were told that conference attendance was up from the previous year. Since I did not attend LS08, I cannot make a comparison; however, the attendance - at least in the product showcase where I spent 3 days - seemed light.

As I think ahead to Lotusphere 2010, I wonder what it will be like this year.

If you are a vendor of products or services for Lotus Software, I'd be curious to get your thoughts on-line or off-line and I would be curious to know if you think we will see a lot of traffic in the product showcase this year.

Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dxcomments/are-you-planning-to-exhibit-at-lotusphere-2010 http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/are-you-planning-to-exhibit-at-lotusphere-2010?opendocument&comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:48:41 -0700
Started in KM in 1996 at DEC. KM was something on the side.

Reflecting on his 13 years in KM: (I'll try to come back an fill in details later)

1. Collect content: Connect People
Key influencer: Patrick Lambe

2. Try things out; improve and iterate
Key influencer: Tom Davenport

3. Lead by example; model behaviors
Key influencer: Carla O'Dell

4. Set goals; recognize and reward
Key influencer: Nancy Dixon

5. Tell your stories; get others to tell theirs
Key influencer: Steve Denning

6. Use the right tool for the job; build good examples
Key influencer: Tom Stewart

7. Enable innovation; support integration
Key influencer: Verna Allee

8. Include openly; span boundaries
Key influencer: Larry Prusak

9. Prime the pump; ask and answer questions
Key influencer: Etienne Wenger

10. Network; pay it forward
Key influencer: Hubert Saint-Onge

11. Let go of control; encourage and monitor
Key influencer: Clay Shirkey

12. Just say yes; be responsive
Key influencer: Chris SollisonC

13. Meet less; deliver more
Key influencer: Seth Godin
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Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/trackback?open&id=13-years-in-km---a-bakers-dozen-insights-stan-garfield http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/13-years-in-km---a-bakers-dozen-insights-stan-garfield Knowledge Management Eric Mack http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/13-years-in-km---a-bakers-dozen-insights-stan-garfield?opendocument&comments http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/13-years-in-km---a-bakers-dozen-insights-stan-garfield I've followed Stan's writing on KM for years, so it's a treat to finally meet Stan in person.(Stan will be on our PKM Panel this afternoon, as well.). Today, Stan reflects on his 13 years on KM with a fast-moving presentation on his lessons learned about effective KM. Like all of his writing, Stan shared many insights. I have listed a few below.

Started in KM in 1996 at DEC. KM was something on the side.

Reflecting on his 13 years in KM: (I'll try to come back an fill in details later)

1. Collect content: Connect People
        Key influencer: Patrick Lambe

2. Try things out; improve and iterate
        Key influencer: Tom Davenport

3. Lead by example; model behaviors
        Key influencer: Carla O'Dell

4. Set goals; recognize and reward
        Key influencer: Nancy Dixon

5. Tell your stories; get others to tell theirs
        Key influencer: Steve Denning

6. Use the right tool for the job; build good examples
        Key influencer: Tom Stewart

7. Enable innovation; support integration
        Key influencer: Verna Allee

8. Include openly; span boundaries
        Key influencer: Larry Prusak

9. Prime the pump; ask and answer questions        
        Key influencer: Etienne Wenger

10. Network; pay it forward
        Key influencer: Hubert Saint-Onge

11. Let go of control; encourage and monitor
        Key influencer: Clay Shirkey

12. Just say yes; be responsive
        Key influencer: Chris SollisonC

13. Meet less; deliver more
        Key influencer: Seth Godin

Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dxcomments/13-years-in-km---a-bakers-dozen-insights-stan-garfield http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/13-years-in-km---a-bakers-dozen-insights-stan-garfield?opendocument&comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:57:00 -0700 Michael Sampson mask as I entered the room where the keynote was and Andy saw me right away and waived. So, there you are, Michael. Andy says hi.)

Here are some of my notes from his presentation on resetting the enterprise with Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

Why does Enterprise 2.0 work?

Altruism
People want to help

Implications
- Stop obsessing about risks
Lower barriers to altruism

Process
Beware of the 'one best way' and slotting people into a predefined workflow
Emergent tools allow altruism and innovation

Implications
Ask "How much workflow, this process, this structure, is necessary to be successful at this time?"

make it easier to corect mistakes instead of hard to create them
use tools that let structue appear



Innovation
Strategy may be dead
Time for a Chief innovation Officer instead of Chief Strategist
Don't nail it down up front. Set the direction and the outcome.
Innocentive - open source problem solving for problems that stump the home organization
Question credentialism. Innocentive lets anyone, regardless of credentials look at this.
Build communities that people want to join

Example: Verizon Customer support open source
Createed method of identity and the ability to acquire status reputation and identity

Intelligence
With a little bit of technology facilitation, crowds can be very wise
Enab
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Originally posted on Eric Mack Online ]]> http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/trackback?open&id=resetting-the-enterprise-with-enterprise-2.0-andy-mcafee http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/resetting-the-enterprise-with-enterprise-2.0-andy-mcafee Knowledge Management Eric Mack http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/resetting-the-enterprise-with-enterprise-2.0-andy-mcafee?opendocument&comments http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/resetting-the-enterprise-with-enterprise-2.0-andy-mcafee My workshop on high performance knowledge workwork went well. Today we are on schedule fo the KMWORLD conference and our keynote presenter is none other than Andy McAfee. (Let me explain the photo. I wore my Michael Sampson mask as I entered the room where the keynote was and Andy saw me right away and waived. So, there you are, Michael. Andy says hi.)

Here are some of my notes from his presentation on resetting the enterprise with Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

Why does Enterprise 2.0 work?

Altruism
     People want to help

     Implications
     - Stop obsessing about risks
             Lower barriers to altruism

Process
     Beware of the 'one best way' and slotting people into a predefined workflow
     Emergent tools allow altruism and innovation

     Implications
     Ask "How much workflow, this process, this structure, is necessary to be successful at this time?"

     make it easier to corect mistakes instead of hard to create them
     use tools that let structue appear

     

Innovation
     Strategy may be dead
     Time for a Chief innovation Officer instead of Chief Strategist
     Don't nail it down up front. Set the direction and the outcome.
     Innocentive - open source problem solving for problems that stump the home organization
             Question credentialism. Innocentive lets anyone, regardless of credentials look at this.
     Build communities that people want to join

     Example: Verizon Customer support open source
             Createed method of identity and the ability to acquire status reputation and identity

Intelligence
     With a little bit of technology facilitation, crowds can be very wise
             Enable peer review
             Experiment with collective intelligence (wisdom of crowd)

Benefits
     Better collaboration is not the only goal
             "Narrate your work" (Dave Weiner) Do this over time and let people link to it and talk about it.
     
     Increated awareness, not of solutions, but of people behind the solutions
     
Impact
     Real results
     Sitting this one out is a bad idea
     Look at technology with fresh eyes
     We're not going back to business as usual

How to succeed with Enterprise 2.0
     How to snatch defeat from the laws of vistory
             - Declare war on the existing enterprise
             - Allow waled gardens to flourish
             - Accentuating the negative
             - Try to replace email
     New entrant needs to be 10x better than incumbent (e-mail is not going away)
             Where you can succeed is where there is a blank space in technology landscape (no incumbent)
     Fall in love with features
             Think iPod - all it does is play music.
     Overuse the word "social"

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