12 March 2007

This rings very true. In my opinion, IBM does a fairly good job of staying out getting out of the way. In fact, a lot of the internal community tool innovation going on over the last few years is surfacing as Lotus Connections, which will enable enterprises with social tools. However, no amount of money can purchase a culture, which grows organically. Paraphrasing (former IBMer) Don Ferguson, "if you stand in the way of the Internet, it will run you over." But do follow the link and read these three bullet points in context:

DO NOTHING

GET OUT OF THE WAY

KEEP THE ENERGY LEVELS UP

Via Tim O'Reilly: Link to The 100% guaranteed easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0?