As communicated in a previous blog post, we recently had the opportunity to present the main results of our exploratory survey on the deployment of Enterprise 2.0 concepts & tools in Belgium at the Digital Innovators Tour.
The full presentation has already been made public so let’s just discuss here the main conclusions.  They can be structured around three questions we will approach step by step in the coming weeks:

-    What’s the state of development of Enterprise 2.0 projects in Belgium?  And do they have a clear future?
-    Do contemporary companies adopt some expected organizational characteristics of a typical Enterprise 2.0 firm – and to what extent?
-    Does the success of Enterprise 2.0 projects depend on a company’s organizational profile… and if well, on which dimensions of this profile?
Present and future of Enterprise 2.0 projects in Belgium
85 % of the respondents (mainly top & middle management, IT and marketing representatives) actually launched at least one Enterprise 2.0 project within their company.  Amongst them, 63 % are quite (49 %) to very (14 %) satisfied about it.

I would say this is a quite enthusiastic though a bit delusional result.  After all, still 15 % of the respondents have never been concerned at all by any Enterprise 2.0 project, whatever it was about deploying an online collaboration platform, launching a blog or a wiki or even starting to develop their online communication through e.g. public social networks or microblogs.  And if 63 % are satisfied, what about the other 37 %?
Actually, only 12 % of them claim to be quite dissatisfied …

Jeudi 24 juin 2010, Early Stage a participé au colloque “Entreprise Collaborative” au Microsoft Innovation Center de Mons. L’événement était organisé par Technocité par le biais de son programme Digital Innovators Tour. Le format proposait une séance plénière d’ouverture suivie de cinq ateliers spécifiques sur différents sujets relatifs à l’Entreprise 2.0. Early Stage a animé, avec Fabienne Vandekerkove (Whatever) celui concernant les bénéfices à tirer d’un projet d’outil collaboratif. Par ailleurs, Xavier Cremer a présenté, en avant-première, les premiers résultats de l’étude “Entreprise 2.0 en Belgique“.

Ci-dessous, le discours de conclusion par Roald …

(version française ci-dessous)

Early Stage wordt K Company

Het e-business consultancy kantoor EARLY STAGE verandert van naam en wordt K Company. Dit ten gevolge van een investering door De Cronos Groep. De gevolgen zijn talrijk en zeer positief.

De groei van Early Stage

Sinds 2008 is Early Stage actief op het gebied van e-business, webstrategie, Enterprise 2.0 en e-governement heeft nu een kapitaalsinjectie aanvaard van De Cronos Groep, incubator met een eigenzinnig ondernemingsmodel en één van de belangrijkste ICT-actoren in Vlaanderen. Deze combinatie geeft aan Early Stage de mogelijkheid om een grote vooruitgang te boeken in zijn natuurlijke groei en het geeft Cronos …

Since the end of May 2010, Agorati is present on the local news pages of lesoir.be, first online news portal in Belgium. It offers a widget retrieving all publications from politicians on their blogs, whatever the color or the language. A good sign of the complementarity that exists between professional, journalistic press, and the web monitoring by the civil society. Agorati takes advantage of that visibility: we saw an increasing demand for registration from politics, and a sudden boost in Agorati’s global …

Here you can see the video of the opening of our recepetion. Many thanks to Telemak for the making of this video, it’s a real beauty.

Inauguration of the Nagelmackers office