Comments on: Prepare for the next generation of enterprise collaboration http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/prepare-for-the-next-generation-of-collaboration/ Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris Albrecht http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/prepare-for-the-next-generation-of-collaboration/#comment-862618 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:33:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=539796#comment-862618 Hi Johnny,

You’re right in that the video scratches the surface, but I think it’s a good starting point for companies to this about — especially when it comes to what younger people entering the workforce will expect. They’ll be primed for adopting these tools already.

]]> By: Johnny Ramondino http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/prepare-for-the-next-generation-of-collaboration/#comment-862493 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:59:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=539796#comment-862493 I agree with the message that enterprise collaboration is going to come to the workplace and will be, already is, expected by the employee community. The video scratches the surface with regards to the challenges organizations will face in deploying this but it doesn’t have to be that hard. Enterprises don’t need to reinvent how to do this. There are plenty of examples in the market that demonstrate how you can get people engaged and make collaboration immensely valuable. When you look at existing customer and development focused forums and other communities you find that they all share certain attributes:
- Reputation build
- Human nature good feeling of helping people
- Tangible rewards when building up quota of community activity

Enterprises only need to facilitate these (and other) characteristics to make the deployment successful.
While all this can be done technically very easy with the platform tools that are out there, the real challenge is getting the enterprise aligned on how valuable this collaboration really is across the business lines.

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