Davenport vs. McAfee on Enterprise 2.0

Much has been written about the “debate” between Tom Davenport and Andrew McAfee on the role of enterprise 2.0 in changing the enterprise. Many, if not all, of you are aware of this but it has generated many interesting side conversations. Being part of the Fast Forward Enterprise 2.0 blog I seem to have only heard the views supporting the McAfee position or deconstructing the conversation to debunk connected myths.

Here is a recent useful example, More on corporate hierarchy and the organization of work, from Tom Mandel. He picks three myths around the debate and goes into them in detail.

Here is a post I finally did on the controversy, Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? Here I tried to provide a more optimist interpretation of what Tom wrote. As I said, “I look at what Tom actually wrote and I think he nicely captures some of the organizational obstacles that will have to be overcome for organizations to effectively use enterprise 2.0 tools.”

Has anyone found a blog post supporting the more contrarian interpretation of Tom’s points? enterprise 2.0 web 2.0 enterprise social media

Comments

[James Dellow]

Bill - I've made a few posts about Davenport's position:

Shaping knowledge with business data
http://chieftech.blogspot.com/2007/05/shaping-knowledge-with-business-data.html

Saving E2.0's Soul
http://chieftech.blogspot.com/2007/03/saving-e20-soul.html

I'm actually warming to his argument that business analytics is more important, but think he needs to look at how Web 2.0 will change how people work with numbers and not just content.

Best Regards, James

[bill Ives]

James Thanks for this. I will follow up with your links. Bill

[Stan Garfield]

Hi, Bill.

I linked to this post from http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/garfield/archive/2007/05/23/3473.html

Regards,
Stan

[Bill Ives]

Stan - Thanks. I am honored to be your KM blog of the Week. You have a great blog - http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/garfield/ - as I have written before.