Trends and Issues in Extension

Andrew McAfee has been a leading academic voice for Enterprise 2.0. For about four more weeks you can get his article “Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration” from the MIT Sloan Management Review for free. Here is the link.

This is a great summary of Enterprise 2.0 and includes McAfee’s idea of SLATE (Search, Links, Authoring, Tags, Extensions, Signals), some ground rules for organizations (make the offerings easy to use and do not impose structures on how the work is done or categorized), the roles managers will play (standard platform, having a receptive culture) and challenges and opportunities. Great, quick read. Highly recommended.