My tiny problem with Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 2.0 and all is fantastic. Collaboration, social networks, knowledge sharing are huge benefits. However, recently I have been quite frustrated by it. Let me describe to you my headache.
Collaboration on tasks is done on the Enterprise 2.0 platform. All is great, everyone chips in and get it done. However, alot of my deliverables are in Word format (sometimes powerpoint). At the end of the task, someone has to sit down and churn the stuff that was generated into a word format. Some might argue, which I totally agree with, is that if collaboration is done online, it allows users to just focus on the content and not the crappy stuff like formatting. Formatting is done at the end of the process and possibly, collectively, lesser time is spent of formatting.
However, when the deadline is tight, formatting is an additional time spent at the end of the process which little real work could be done. Also, why do we even need to do formatting? Can’t we have a template, collaborate based on the template and one click of the button and the page becomes a word document.
From where I am standing this is one of the reasons why employees are not embarking on the Enterprise 2.0 platform to collaborate on it. There is an additional step in their view that is needed to get to the destination. I think there will be value if such a functionality exist.
Fabrice said,
Hi,
Such functionality exists in Google Docs, where you can export in .doc format.
however, some companies just do not produce MS Office documents any more, and instead, send links to their online docs…
Sean Lew said,
Yeah good point on the Google Docs. That functionality should be integrated into many other tools.
I agree with you that some companies send links to clients and I think that is a great way of doing things. However there are alot of non-users and sadly as vendors we do whatever the client is comfortable with. =(
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