Podcasts: Dr. Pradeep's thoughts on Enterprise Blogging

		Social Networks (Nov 22th, 2005) "We are often asked, “What is the meaning of a social network within an enterprise? Is there a need for a social network within an enterprise? Aren’t there enough organizations outside the enterprise, be they physical clubs or cyber clubs or various town halls or community groups…”
		Blogging, RSS and Advertising (Nov 21th, 2005) "It is very interesting to see how blogging and RSS change the way advertising is strategized and thought about in companies. Advertising, as you know, is a corporate function that is murky at best. Advertising is not as much about efficiency as it is about effectiveness…”
		Taxonomy Maintenance (Nov 18th, 2005) "As we explore the increasing use of taxonomy in a variety of knowledge management, knowledge generation and knowledge consumption activities, it also becomes very important to explore how such a taxonomy can be maintained on a regular basis…”
		Search and Corporate Governance (Nov 17th, 2005) "How can search enable effective governance? After all, if one were able to just Google documents on a corporate intranet wouldn’t that be sufficient? This is the question we ponder today…”
		Knowledge Management:Infrastructure Management (Nov 16th, 2005) "A classic question asked by many IT organizations is, ‘Who should manage the knowledge management infrastructure?’ It’s not a trivial question because the CIO wants a very capable person to manage the knowledge management infrastructure…”
		Knowledge Management:Risk Mitigation (Nov 15th, 2005) "A question that is often asked is, “How does a CIO make the business case for knowledge management infrastructure? What components should the business case include? Are we talking about revenue…”
		Knowledge Management:Segmentation (Nov 14th, 2005) "What are the core segments of a corporate audience within a company that utilizes a knowledge management infrastructure? Is knowledge management for everyone, or is there a classification of knowledge management infrastructure…”
		KM Infrastructure and Sarbanes Oxley (Nov 10th, 2005) "The question we pose today is, What does Sarbanes-Oxley mean to the knowledge management infrastructure of a company? We all recognize that Sarbanes-Oxley has impacted, non-trivially, the entire financial infrastructure of a company…”
		Blogs and Corporate Governance (Nov 9th, 2005) "We have pondered how corporate governance will evolve in the next century. One of the crucial elements for improving governance is better, more effective communications and interactions between corporate management…”
		Infrastructure Deployment (Nov 8th, 2005) "What we want to talk about today is how to deploy the right kind of blogging and RSS infrastructure within a company. Traditionally, when we have deployed enterprise software, we have sketched out the requirements…"
		Blogs as Marketing Tools (Nov 7th, 2005) "Blogs can be very powerful instruments for marketing departments to have. Being able to put out a piece of information that will be tested by a variety of focus groups is an essential component of the marketing business…"
		Connecting People, Information and Insights (Nov 4rd, 2005) "As one attempts to develop the right kind of strategy to connect people, information and insights within an enterprise, it is important to bear in mind ten steps. These ten steps enable us to precisly determine …"
		User Interfaces (Nov 3rd, 2005) "There’s a lot of research on user interfaces that suggests they facilitate the use of knowledge management engines within the enterprise. Our key understanding of user interface is that…"
		Self Policing Blogs (Nov 2nd, 2005) "Self policing and self regulation are critical elements on an enterprise blog. This is true simply because an inappropriate exchange of information or opinions…"
		Structured Blogs (Nov 1st, 2005) "There is the notion of blog templates or blogs with structure. As you look at the various business processes within a company, it is relatively clear…"
		CEO Tools (October 31st, 2005) "I was at a very interesting meeting a few weeks ago where, after we finished the session, one of the employees came up to me and said “We have so many wonderful ideas of how to move the company forward but…"
		Change Management (October 28th, 2005) "I’ve been asked many times, “What is the best examples of a community within an enterprise that does not quite have an infrastructure…"
		Generic Taxonomies (October 27 th, 2005) "Many people have asked me what an enterprise taxonomy looks like. How much of an enterprise taxonomy is generic? How much of an enterprise taxonomy is company specific…"
		Supply Chain Infrastructure: Blogs and RSS (October 26 th, 2005) "We’re going to talk about the use of blogging and RSS in supply chain. The supply chain process is a relatively complex process that includes vendors outside the company and numerous people within the company all working together..."
		Blogs As Legal Nightmares (October 25th, 2005) "Blogs can be legal nightmares, not only for the CIO, but also for the Chief Legal Officer and the Chief HR Officer of a company..."
		Enterprise Communication (October 24th, 2005) “As we start delving deeper into the questions “How do individuals communicate within an enterprise?” and “What is the purpose of most enterprise communications?” we find that there are some core elements of enterprise communication…”
		Enterprise Experts (October 21th, 2005) How do you find experts within the enterprise? People have said that it is easier to link to an HR system and view people’s qualifications than it is to try and sort through expertise...
		Blogs: The Internet and the Intranet (October 20th, 2005) A big difference between blogging on the internet and blogging on the intranet is that,on the intranet, blogging is the voice of the process.On the internet blogs create a cult of personality, a sense of identity, and a special placefor individuals to talk about their views. perspectives, and whatever else they may care to discuss....
		Blogs and Discussion Threads (October 19th, 2005) I get asked all the time "What is the difference between a discussion thread and a blog?" especially as it pertains to an enterprise. "Which is more useful within an enterprise, a blog or a discussion thread?"...
		Knowledge Management Infrastructure (October 18th, 2005) What are the five critical engines of knowledge management? Before one rushes to buy a variety of products and put them in place on the intranet, it’s useful to take a step back and..
		What is Knowledge Management? (October 17th, 2005) What is knowledge management? There’s been a lot of debate about what knowledge management is, and usually it boils down to a whole bunch of data warehouses full of various kinds of documents from various marketing sources...
		Enterprise Communities (October 14th, 2005) What are enterprise communities? And what is the need for such communities within the enterprise? Well, the first thing to recognize is that the enterprise itself is a community. It is actually a very organized community...
		Enterprise RSS (October 13th, 2005) What is the unique need for ERSS? After all, Really Simple Syndication enables the proactive electronic delivery of news and information at one’s desktop doorstep. What is the specialization of RSS within an enterprise?
		Instant Workflow (October 12th, 2005) I really believe instant messaging is for kids. Instant workflow is for adults. Within an enterprise instant messaging is fun, but it’s of remarkable low value...
		The Types of Enterprise Blogs (October 11th, 2005) There are very many kinds of enterprise blogs, and the example I like to use is Microsoft Word. When Word first came out it was basically a blank page and a bunch of editing tools associated with a blank page. And that was enough for the consumer space...
		Blogging on the Intranet (October 7th, 2005) There are many people who have tried to implement blogging software on the intranet, with varying degrees of success. That is hardly surprising. Transplanting internet best practices onto the intranet is not an easy process. What you really have to think about is how a corporation...
		What is an enterprise taxonomy? (October 6th, 2005) What is an enterprise taxonomy? We have analyzed very many definitions of taxonomy and have come to a single conclusion. A complete collection of all of the enterprise processes and sub processes through which work in the enterprise is performed and done...
		What then is Personalization? (October 5th, 2005) We believe that personalization is intimately linked to business processes and the enterprise business process taxonomy. An employee within a company participates in and is part of the workflow of a select set of processes within the company. This defines who they are, what they do, the information they seek and...
		Maximizing ROI on Blogging (October 4th, 2005) Many times we are asked how we maximize economic returns from intranet blogging. The only way to do that is to utilize what we call the return matrix. Imagine a matrix where the rules of that matrix are granular business processes within a company. It could be...