To lighten up the atmosphere a bit, I presented this very tongue in cheek lampoon of our enterprise 2.0 rapid adoption program at a NewsGator board meeting. Brad Feld then dared me to post it. So, I offer my sincere apologies in advance if this offends anyone. Hopefully, you take it in the light-hearted spirit in which it is intended.
- Admitted that we are powerless over the inefficiencies and bloated Enterprise 1.0 tools, technology and culture.
- Came to believe that Enterprise 2.0 could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of blogs, wikis, social profiles, micro-blogging, bookmarking, syndicated content and all things Enterprise 2.0.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our portals, email servers, collaboration platforms, KM systems…you get the picture.
- Admitted to our customer, to ourselves and to employees everywhere the exact nature of our wrongs.
- We are entirely ready to have Enterprise 2.0 remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked the Virtual 2.0 team (not the executive staff) to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all employees and customers we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people (in a blog, wiki or twitter of course) wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it – “I’m so sorry I emailed that article to 500,000 people”.
- Sought through analysis and evaluation to improve our conscious contact with Enterprise 2.0 as we understood It.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to Enterprise 1.0 addicts.
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