Identifying teams for Enterprise 2.0 pilot groups
There has been alot of talk about creating enterprise 2.0 pilot test groups before a full fledged implementation across an organisation. However, I haven’t read much about how one can go about identifying teams that will succeed in the pilot test groups. So what are the requirements of an Enterprise 2.0 pilot test groups?
1) Must be tech savvy enough to know how to use the Enterprise 2.0 platform. This doesn’t necessary have to be the IT department.
2) Managers and team members involved have a history of collaborating with other teams/business units, i.e. helping other business units and contributing time and resources to support other business objectives other than their own.
3) High performing teams. These teams are very good at what they are supposed to do within their job scope and business objectives.
4) There are reasons and incentives for the teams to collaborate both internally within the team and external with other teams/suppliers and/or clients.
Do you think there are enough factors to select a team that will be highly effective and produce the right results in an Enterprise 2.0 pilot test group?
*Hint* think about this from a corporate level, if these are factors for a successful pilot team, what about a successful collaborative organisation?
Bertrand Duperrin said,
Maybe another point is that they should be representative of the company’s business and people so everyone could say “if they did it we can do it too”.
As a matter of fact, sometimes, even when a pilot is successful it’s hard to carry on on a wider scale because people say “this team is so different from us…we don’t do the same things…they’re too tech-savvy, we don’t have the same constraints etc…”.
Sean Lew said,
That’s a really good point. Only when people experience and understand the phenomena and technology that they will be willing to adopt it.
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