A Strategic Approach to Enterprise 2.0

In  October 2011, PMI discussed the core features and emerging challenges of the project management profession at its annual global congress in Dallas. One of the key areas of focus was the new management trend, Enterprise 2.0 for Project Teams.

Enterprise 2.0 can be defined as an innovative organizational model built on a best of breed collaborative software and a solid technological infrastructure that allows project and operation teams to be more agile and to optimize their contribution to the growth of the financial and intellectual capital of an enterprise.

This paper presents (1) a history of electronic collaboration, (2) a proposal for a strategic approach to the selection of the collaborative technology for the virtual teams across the organization, and (3) the steps in selecting the vendor.

A History of Electronic Collaboration

An early form of electronic collaboration is the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Since the early 1960s, EDI has qualified as the precursor of e-applications such aseGovernment, ePublishing, eBanking, and so on. EDI had been structured for highly automated transaction processing and uses standardized formats of the relevant data to be transmitted between business partners from one computer system to another with minimal human intervention. Widely used in industry to transmit traditional documents such as …