Mike Wagner - Perpetual beta

As "tacit" interactions replace more routine business activities and the scale and complexity of many corporations creep upward, the need to manage collaboration is growing. According to McKinsey, nearly 80 percent of the senior executives surveyed in a 2005 study said that effective coordination across product, functional, and geographic lines was crucial for growth. Yet only 25 percent of the respondents described their organizations as "effective" at sharing knowledge across boundaries. Read the rest of my company post here: http://jackbe.blogspot.com/2007/05/tacit-workers.html

From my JackBe corp. blog.... Read/Write Web reported yesterday that ' Salesforce.com Brings Web 2.0 To The Enterprise With ContentExchange ': Today Salesforce.com announced a new product called Salesforce ContentExchange, a content management product for unstructured data such as email and html. They also publicly announced the acquisition of Koral , a web 2.0 content collaboration platform that was at DEMO07 earlier this year... Koral is a key enabling technology for S alesforce ContentExchange. The new product means that Salesforce.com now manages all types of content in a company - both structured information (e.g. CRM data like contacts and sales information) and unstructured information (office documents, HTML, video/audio files and email, etc). Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, calls this “another step towards our vision of managing all information on demand”. So far, Web 2.0 migration into the enterprise world has seemed largely been limited to the...