This definition is ridiculous: "Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email."
E2.0 cannot be about technologies because business doesn't buy technologies. Business buys solutions: http://tinyurl/EvolutionBegins. And liberating the workforce from email, a described productivity tool...what would they be liberated from? Productivity?
I like the phrase Enterprise 2.0 but the current captains of its definition are lost. 2.0 should designate evolution from 1.0. Logic dictates it is an extension of or improvement upon the previous generation. Unfortunately for the current crew of the Enterprise 2.0 they have seemingly ignored what business is all about. Perhaps it is their training in the "consumer" world which distorts their perspective.
Anything written by this guy about Enterprise 1.0 (ERP, etc.) is a good starting point to understand where current business systems stand: http://tinyurl.com/Wailgum. You can't entice business to leave all of their investment behind and follow a string of technologies that are supposed to liberate us from productivity.
There are real E2.0 solutions available today. Companies can retain/protect their investment in E1.0 and earlier solutions and address the dynamic needs of business that have not been achieved during the evolution of Enterprise Computing to date. In spite of the consumerish nature of the E2.0 definition in active discussion today the real results and definition for E2.0 are realized only when aligned with actual business need.
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