Synergise IT

IBM recently conducted interviews with 1,130 business and public sector leaders worldwide in 45 countries and the end result was the IBM Global CEO Study. Assuming that IBM has conducted this research with the same level of academic rigor as universities, this study would be a world changing piece of finding.

The main outcome of this research is as following:

1) Hungry for change: The Enterprise of the Future is capable of changing quickly and successfully. Instead of merely responding to trends, it shapes and leads them. Market and industry shifts are a chance to move ahead of the competitions

2) Innovate Beyond Customer Imagination: The Enterprise of the Future surpasses the expectations of increasingly demanding customers. Deep collaborative relationships allow it to surprise customers with innovations that make both its customers and its own business more successful.

3) Globally Integrated: The Enterprise of the Future is integrating to take advantage of today’s global economy. Its business is strategically designed to access the best capabilities, knowledge and assets from wherever they reside in the world and apply them wherever required in the world.

4) Disruptive by Nature: The Enterprise of the Future radically challenges its business model, disrupting the basis of competition. It shifts the value proposition, overturns traditional delivery approaches and, as soon as opportunities arise, reinvents itself and its entire industry.

5) Genuine, Not Just Generous: The Enterprise of the Future goes beyond philanthropy and compliance and reflects genuine concern for society in all actions and decisions

Enterprise 2.0 concepts fits right in the middle of the results of this report. Disruptive by Nature, Globally Integrated and Innovate Beyond Customer Imagination is the outcome of extensive collaboration, communication, sharing and collective intelligence executed internally and externally of the organisation.

Clearly this is a idealistic outcome of collaboration and enterprise social networking. To get to this point, there is alot to be changed.

1) Perception of organisation within organisations.
2) Flattening of organisation hierarchy
3) Increase organisational transparency
4) Release of control from senior management
5) Adoption of collaborative and social networking tools
6) Move away from emails to collaborative tools
7) Trusting a stranger over the internet
8 ) and many many more…

Personally, I do not think this will happen too quickly as such changes involves the entire organisation and many organisations have their own political walls and wars to get through before such ideas can even be approved to be implemented. However, I can say that things are looking good. =)