An Evolution from Project Management to Cloud-Based Social Collaboration

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:45:00 EDT

As hundreds of Enterprise 2.0 tools continue to flood the market, the use of social networks within the enterprise is extending into other toolsets such as project management. The intersection of project management and social collaboration has the potential to improve complex project management by leveling customary organizational boundaries and facilitating interdepartmental co-creation. By doing so, innovation is crowd-sourced at an enterprise level, enabling and filtering out the best ideas rather than the loudest. This area of cloud adoption could potentially change organizational behavior and innovation as we know it. Business-focused social sites have successfully made their way into thousands of enterprises, unhinging the antiquated ideal that it is the tool, and not our attention span, that make us less productive. By the time I finish writing this, I expect to receive upwards of a dozen responses to a post I made on sprintr this morning asking my colleagues for input on this article. This subsection of social networking, aptly named Enterprise 2.0, aims to streamline business processes and enhance collaboration with real-time, crowd-focused information sharing. We are entering an exciting era of social collaboration in the enterprise, one where organizational boundaries are broken so that cross-functional teams can innovate.

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An Evolution from Project Management to Cloud-Based Social Collaboration