The Need to Make Work Observable

As work processes and products become more and more heavily focused on knowledge work and knowledge production, work has become less “observable”. Whereas in a physical production environment, the visible work product is the final work product itself, in information and knowledge work, the visible work product is often descriptions of the final work product, […]

What is a Social Business Application?

We’re hearing a lot about Social Business lately, especially with the emergence of social business platforms like Connections from IBM Lotus.  Social business platforms like Connections provide an enterprise and its partners a “visible” social network in the same manner that consumer social networks like Facebook do.  These social business platforms provide the basic social […]

Welcome!

Welcome to The Project Wall! After our great time meeting with folks at Lotusphere, and our continued discussions with customers and partners, we realized that there’s a great deal of confusion and questions about social business platforms, and social business applications. This blog is our attempt to both join and lead the conversation about social […]