What Is Web 2.0

Some ideas about Web 2.0 by Mr. O’Reilly, who coined the term.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

‘The disruptive impact of Web 2.0 is just beginning. O’Reilly gave Web 2.0 its name when we launched the Web 2.0 Summit, (now joined by Web 2.0 Expo) and we believe it’s much more than just the latest technology buzzword. Web 2.0 is a transformative force that’s propelling companies across all industries towards a new way of doing business characterized by harnessing collective intelligence, openness, and network effects. ‘

http://radar.oreilly.com/web2/

Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008

‘Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008′

The top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 include:

1. Green IT.
2. Unified Communications.
3. Business Process Modeling.
4. Metadata Management.
5. Virtualization 2.0.
6. Mashup & Composite Apps.
7. Web Platform & WOA.
8. Computing Fabric.
9. Real World Web.
10. Social Software. (my note: this is Social Networking) ‘

It is remarkable that three of these 10 Trends are related to Web 2.0; namely:

• Mashup & Composite Apps.
• Web Platform & WOA.
• Social Software.

Business Process Modelling is based on Service Oriented Architecture; which is also the technological basis for Web 2.0
From: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=530109

Metadata Management also has a relation with web 2.0: new web 2.0 development such as the ‘Semantic web‘ is a Metadata Management implementation for the Web.

Gartner is stating that Web 2.0 related technologies are comprising the most important trends of 2008: that is the main reason that I am looking at this technology myself.

The best way to learn is to actually experiment with it myself! You can read more about my experiences on this page on Web 2.0!

Enterprise 2.0, corporate agility big themes at Interop ‘08

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Improving Service Organizations: ‘Freedom from Command and control’

A very interesting book on ‘Lean Production systems’ for services is this book written by John Seddon of the Vanguard Group; here are some readers comments.

This is a completely different approach of optimizing services organizations than ‘Strategy Maps‘ (Kaplan and Norton); which is essentially centered around implementing Balanced Score Cards as the main management steering mechanism. For me they completement one another.

For IT organizations, it shows how we can optimize e.g. Call Centers.

Excellent reading!