June 22nd, 2005
I don’t like that meme that Social Software is bottom-up by definition. And that enterprise software is simply bad. As long as there is something like a corporation or an organisation it’ll have high interests to provide tools that fit the enterprises needs. It is nonetheless a cultural question if that has to be controlled by the enterprise or imposed from above. It is an issue of competitveness to provide an environment that supports those that you work with. If you miss that that your overhead will get big.
Ben Poole :: weblog :: CTC 2005: Monday (part 2): “The message is that enterprise software is often something that is ‘imposed’ from the top-down on workers. To this end you don’t have end-user buy-in, and the apps themselves are often unwieldy / long-winded in terms of implementation. Contrast this with the strength of wikis and weblogs: their inherent simplicity, plus the fact that users like ’em! I thought this linked in nicely with the ‘paradox of power’ discussed earlier in the day.”
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