I work for a large Fortune 100 Blue Chip company and have done for nearly 20yrs.  I joined straight from University and have had a great career (so far!).  I have worked in the IT/BT/Informatics, whatever you want to call it group, all that time.  My function has always worked very closely with the business functions including R&D, Manufacturing, Marketing and of course our Corporate elements including HR, legal, etc.

I have worked in the Collaboration and Content space for most of my career with some sideways ventures into Resource Management across an enterprise, Laboratory automation and a great project looking at our end to end chain from Research to Market.

I personally see technology as a catalyst in business and appropriately placed it can accelerate process, open up new business and create new opportunities that were previously not seen or possible.

From this experience and vantage point I thought I would share some of my thoughts on the wave that was called enterprise 2.0 and is in reality just the next phase of collaboration and organisational connectedness.  Looking at what works, what hasn’t worked, what the next 5yrs could look like and how technology and consumer technology is affecting organisations unlike ever before.