Web 2.0 going bonkers??

Posted by Sean Lew on Wednesday, 5 December, 2007 under General Ranting |

Recently I have posted a post regarding the FirstPartner’s Enterprise 2.0 web. If you have gone to the link you would have seen a few other maps. The interesting thing, after browsing through some of the maps, there are so many applications, ideas and possibilities out there to achieve Enterprise 2.0 or apply Web 2.0 applications.

I have realised that alot of organisations have engaged vendors telling them this technology is good and that system can help the client achieve whatever they want. However at this stage, no detailed business analysis has been conducted but a vendor has been signed off to design and implement a multi-million dollar project. At this stage, the client doesn’t even know exactly what they need, what they want and what is nice to have.

Would you ever go off to a shopping centre to buy “mystery box of goodies” that cost thousands of dollars without know what is inside? I certainly wouldn’t.

However, this is what some organisations are doing – not just with Enterprise 2.0 technologies but with any kind of technology.

Please think, try and analyse before you buy. We are never short of good technologies but we are always short of a good strategy.