A few available white papers

The list below gathers a few samples of currently existing white papers on Enterprise 2.0. We do not provide the full PDF directly but a link to the page where you can download it - sometimes after registration.

Entreprise 2.0 : comment tirer parti des réseaux sociaux professionnels ? (blueKiwi Software)

Le fonctionnement en réseau, la transversalité et l’utilisation optimale du capital savoir sont devenus les principaux leviers de croissance obligeant l’entreprise à reconsidérer profondément ses modes de travail et d’échanges.

Enterprise Web 2.0: Building the Next Generation Workplace (Butler Group)

The term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ has become the catch-all phrase that describes the wholesale change in enterprise IT thinking. Driven by changing business needs and social factors, organisations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative drivers that are forcing organisations to push aside old technologies, models, and architectures to make way for the new Web 2.0 world of service-oriented, highly-virtualised, truly-commoditised, and eventually ‘utilitised’ systems and solutions. Social software, collaboration, and real-time communications are pivotal parts of the ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’ story, and these are acting as the conduits for new cultural ideas and practices.

Corporate Intranets Best Practices Report: A User-Driven Web 2.0 Perspective (avenue a - razorfish)

Today's workers deserve the same compelling experiences at their desks that they find surfing at home. Here's how to bring consumer innovation to the enterprise.

Web 2.0 and The Enterprise: Strategies to maximize new opportunities towards Web 3.0 (Business Insights)

Web 2.0 and The Enterprise is a new report published by Business Insights tthat examines how the underlying concepts behind Web 2.0 and the technologies and services it enables are filtering into the corporate world. While there is much debate in the industry about the nature of Web 2.0 and an exact definition of the term, there is no denying that the services and technologies it has engendered are becoming deeply entrenched in the consumer world. Internet-savvy consumers especially those aged 18-34 are as comfortable with social networking, blogging and twittering as they are with using the phone or writing an email.

Does Your Enterprise Need Web 2.0? (Ovum)

Web 2.0 platforms appear to offer intriguing potential for boosting innovation and collaboration within and across enterprises. In this report, the second of a three-part series of reports, we examine the relevance of Web 2.0 for enterprises and propose a framework for deciding if your enterprise needs Web 2.0 platforms.

Corporate Use of Web 2.0 technologies (ChangeWave)

Wikis, blogs and social networking -- once exclusively the Internet playground for techies, kids and dedicated enthusiasts -- are being adopted by corporations at an explosive rate. The race is on to embrace the power of the Web to harness collective intelligence and sell products in new ways. ChangeWave Research recently completed a benchmark survey on Web 2.0, which confirms the explosion in usage. Our survey of 2,081 Alliance members shows that a huge percentage of their companies not only believe in the benefits of collaborative Web 2.0 tools, but are rapidly moving to implement them in a wide variety of ways.