Organizations are facing today the most challenging conditions of their history. A decaying economy, multiple geopolitical threats, urgent environmental and societal issues, are setting the stage for what might be the most disruptive changes since the industrial revolution in the early XIXth century.
At the same time, the rabid evolution of technology allows everyone to connect to everyone and to share information and knowledge with barely no other limit than the speed of light, unveiling a full spectrum of new opportunities (as well as, let’s face it, threats) for businesses.
Trying to define a conceptual and actionable framework for enterprise 2.0 and related topics is a mind-boggling challenge, especially as most practices and initiatives are in such an early stage. Forecasting an overwhelmingly wicked future, even near, requires more than implementing toolsets or conducting surveys.
The “Future of Collaborative Enterprise” project is a laboratory, an attempt to pave the path to a plausible future, by drafting actionable scenarios of what “social” organizations might look like and operate in five to ten years from now. Far from a definitive answer to every question businesses ever asked, we aim at providing breadcrumbs, inducing reactions, and dissipating the smoke around organizational innovation.
What we aim at is helping organizations, technology vendors and business consultancies to better understand the ‘what’s next’ to go ahead together with a true collaborative mindset. We will publish interviews of thought leaders from many disciplines, build scenarios, and hopefully provide companies with keys for tackling the complexity of our fast evolving world.
Add your vision to our initiative, by answering on Quora the questions we are asking to all interviewees, or by posting a video response on the project’s Youtube channel.
