Where is the Future for Enterprise 2.0?
Having being part of an Enterprise 2.0 implementation, I soon found out that collaboration and communication is awesome. My efficiency is way through the roof and I can accomplish more within a day. However, what I also found is that when I am faster and more efficient, I was taking in alot more information and processing more tasks within the same day. Technology could help deliver the right information to me when required but I can only do that much within a day. I can only process a certain amount of information a day and complete that many tasks (tasks that requires brain and decision making functions).
Where is the future for Enterprise 2.0? Once organisations embrace this technologies, are we at the peak of human collaboration, communication and sharing?
Some might contest that artificial intelligence and agents could help to deliver even higher capabilities, but AI has been a concept for over 20 odd years and nothing really concrete has emerged. Even Business Intelligence nowadays is dependent on the reports and analytics we design and implement into the production system. AI has still some distance to cover before it can be commercially viable.
What I am trying to say here is that as employees are becoming more efficient with the help of technology like Enterprise 2.0, BI and things like that we are bounded to the fact that we can only do that much a day. Are we reaching a point where humans are at the most efficient and there is not much more room to grow?
Paul Mathiesen said,
Hi Sean, what you are saying here makes alot of sense. Bring on web 3.0 and we may start to benefit from more human/technology collaboration
Sean Lew said,
Thanks Paul. Haha we shall wait and see.
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Pete Bonney said,
Hey Sean,
Back in 2004, as one of my final assignments, we had to build intelligent agents using IBM’s Aglet framework (http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/iagents/). It was ahead of it’s time, but if a standard like web 3.0 (aka the semantic web) were to take off, it would be awesome.
For interest sake, the agent/s we built would distribute in parallel and go out to find the best price for a laptop and then purchase it. It’s a simple concept, but if you read up on Tim B.L’s vision for the semantic web, it all becomes clear.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-intelligentage/
Pete Bonney said,
Here is the Aglets link: http://www.trl.ibm.com/aglets/
Sean Lew said,
Wow Pete, that looks great man. Yes, its absolutely ahead of its time but I think there could be value in revisiting this in the near future.
Talking abt Web 3.0 or semantic web standards, I think we are still a fair abit away, at least a couple of years. Many senior managements are still grappling with the web 2.0 concepts.
Actually, just an interesting thought, it seems like every 10 years we have a revolutionary technology. PC in the 80s, internet (web 1.0) in the 90s, web 2.0 in the 2000s. Maybe web 3.0 will come in the next decade? Just a random baseless thought.
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