SocialText.com: Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Key Trend
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Key Trend
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young highlights ad hoc collaboration with Social Software as one of six key 24-month technology trends.
A new generation of tools and approaches toward software-based collaboration creates an environment in which people, no longer limited to the confines of a single department, company, or location, can now join forces and pool resources with people they have never met, and without any pre-existing arrangements. Simply put, the “join point” is no longer based on an organization chart. Rather, it flows from people's common interests.
This trend is made possible by two technological factors.
- First, a new design philosophy of “social” software, which embraces lightweight process control, supports many small, quick interactions, and is based on a series of open standards for communication. For example, the “Wiki-Wiki” collaborative system allows any user to modify the contents of a Web page with no editorial control or synchronization.
- Second, the increasing capability of portable devices such as PDAs and phones, plus the growing availability of cheap mobile data networks (such as 802.11/Wi-Fi), mean that users can interact with others and with systems in a far wider range of times and locations…
The article points out how these two factors will change the nature of events and discusses the other five trends.
A full report discusses social factors, the wiki and highlights Socialtext as evidence for the rise of this trend.
Source: http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/040413cgeytrends.html