Collaborative Thinking Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta « Lotusphere 2008: Social Computing Chess Match | Main | Why Is Social Software So Important? More on virtual worlds, collaborative games but I have to run to a meeting. Events. Hackday - people hacking new/different apps. Trust Us. MORE >>

Filed in Collaboration. Everywhere I turn recently and I hear people talking about the need to collaborate as if the idea was new. Why has collaboration become the capability organisations must have? The issue of how firms might collaborate arose and we had a flurry of academics and practitioners proposing how it might be done. MORE >>

EWeek has a slideshow from Derek K Taft and an article that talk about IBM's current efforts in seting themselves up as a social business company. This was in response to IBM's announcement of their Social Business strategy at Lotusphere 2011 - which sounded like a lot of fun from all the tweets on the topic. IBM is a Social Business. MORE >>

Despite this plug-in, I still believe IBM has made a fundamental and perhaps unrecoverable competitive mistake by not being radically more aggressive regarding SharePoint integration. IBM was faced with taking one of two directions and decided to focus on improving the functional gaps and platform capabilities within Connections (e.g., MORE >>

Over the last decade IBM has driven a significant transformation of its business model as they shifted to higher value areas, improved efficiencies, and invested in a number of firms to fill out their portfolio of software offerings. IBM’s most recent earning reports indicate a strong growth in demand for their Social Business offerings. MORE >>