term paper on enterprise 2.0: the next leap for indian it services industry

8/8/2019 Term Paper on Enterprise 2.0: The next leap for Indian IT services industry

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VINOD GUPTA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTIIT KHARAGPUR

Term paper on

Enterprise 2.0: The next giant leap for Indian IT services

Submitted to: Submitted by:

Dr Prithwis Mukherjee Harsh Vyas (10BM60030)

Abstract:

Web 2.0 gave us a totally new vision of internet. One that is not static and one way, but a network

which is ever evolving, dynamic, creative, more free, collaborative and interactive. If the terms like

Facebook, YouTube, Digg, LinkedIn etc. resemble the icons that made it possible for the internet of

2000 to take the gigantic leap and become what it is today, the concept of Enterprise 2.0 is going to

take the organizational structures and organizational hierarchy to another such gigantic leap. The

enterprise of future will be more flexible, more collaborative, more non-hierarchical, more efficient and

more productive. Like the internet of 2000, the existing stable of enterprise software will be going for a

transformation very soon. And the software companies will be at the fore-front of that change. Thispaper, takes the liberty in collaborating on ideas that are available in public domain to project a picture

of what Enterprise 2.0 is going to be like. Along with that it takes a special case analysis of how Indian

IT software service companies are going to benefit from this emerging new paradigm.

Introduction:

Not so much long ago, 2006 to be precise, Harvard Business School Professor, Andrew McAfee1,

coined a new term Enterprise 2.0, which he predicted will revolutionize the way enterprise do

business, or in general, how they behave. If I take the liberty of using the exact words and I quote

There is a new wave of business communication tools, including blogs, wikis, and group messaging

1http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/SMR200-PDF-ENG


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software (which the author collectively calls "Enterprise 2.0") that allow for more spontaneous,

knowledge-based collaboration. These new tools, the author contends, may well supplant other

communication and knowledge management systems with their superior ability to capture tacit

knowledge, best practices, and relevant experiences from throughout a company and make them

readily available to more users. This paradigm shift in how business interacts from within and to

outside, forms a major part of this paper. At the same time this paper will explore the impact of thisemerging world of Enterprise 2.0 specifically in the Indian IT services industrys context.

The paradigm offered by this new term Enterprise 2.0 highlights the salient characteristics of

a new technological wave defined by social media and user generated content itself abbreviated as

web 2.0. The Wikipedia (itself a web 2.0 stalwart) says that "Enterprise 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0

technologies within an organization to enable or streamline business processes while enhancing

collaboration - connecting people through the use of social-media tools. Enterprise 2.0 aims to help

employees, customers and suppliers collaborate, share, and organize information the use of

emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or

customers".

Post Enterprise 2.0 the resulting organizational communication patterns can lead to highly productive

and highly collaborative environments by making both the practices of knowledge work and its outputsmore visible. Even when implanted and implemented well, these new technologies will certainly bring

with them a totally new set of challenges. Eventually, as is the very definition of Web 2.0, these new

tools may well reduce management's ability to exert unilateral control over the enterprise. It is for the

time to tell whether a company's leaders really want this to happen and will be able to resist the

temptation to silence the impending collaboration and organized chaos is an open question. Leaders

will have to play a delicate role if they want Enterprise 2.0 technologies to succeed.


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Graphic Source: Dion Hinchliffe, ZDNethttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=143

Why Enterprise 2.0 is gaining pace now:

Traditionally a lot of the bigger American and European companies had tremendous success when

they outsourced back office operations to India. This outsourcing based model helped those largeoutsourced accounts keep their customer pricing competitive compared to their small and mediumbusiness SMB) competitors because of low IT costs. Now not only a lot of the SMBs but almost everycompany worth its salt, big or small, from all over the world is turning to outsourcing. This new wave ofsmaller companies outsourcing operations have made lower IT costs the de facto standard and notnecessarily a strategic advantage. Furthermore the advent of SaaS or Software as a Service modeland cloud computing based service delivery models where the need to own an IT infrastructure isminimal and lower fee plus periodical payment, based on quality of service received, is going to bethe norm, only price as a differentiating factor is not going to turn things around for Indian IT servicescompanies.With lower costs already in place, many customers are looking for other differentiators to outdo theircompetitors. This new phenomenon has created more pressure to Indian outsourcing vendors todeliver services or products better, faster, cheaper while putting a lot of emphasis on innovation in

delivery. In this new demanding environment, Indian tech companies are looking for creative ways todeliver services to their customers while adding value and keeping the costs down. One such waywould be to leverage different components of web 2.0.

Blogs, wikis, and RSS have been brewing since the 1990s, and folksonomies and AJAX since

the early years of this decade, and have only now come of age completely. Technologists and

entrepreneurs did need a bit of time to absorb all of elements and combine them into useful tools. The

other major fundamental reasons that will be promoting a rapid acceptance of Enterprise 2.0 are as

follows:

a.) Need for simple, free platforms for self-expression and collaboration in an organization:

Rather than being bound to the confines of rules, human creativity and productivity blooms

only when allowed to flourish in complete freedom. Enterprises often come out to be big

silos/compartments of information with the sharing of that information for a more productive

outcome a very difficult proposition.

b.) Emergent Structures, Rather than Imposed Ones: Any Enterprise 2.0 based system will be

inherently self-propagating. Thus giving organization a scope of continuously and quite

automatically moving towards their goals. This is being understood by most business leaders

today.

c.) Web 2.0 based organizations are will win the war against over-informationtools that will help

them filter, sort, prioritize, and generally stay on top of the flood of new information generated

every second.


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An Insight into Enterprise 2.0:

There can be no doubt that one of the hottest spaces in enterprise software today is collaboration. Its

no surprise collaboration is getting a lot of interest. The old metaphors for capturing, authoring and

sharing information are stale and inefficient. As such, there is a lot of room for achieving productivity

improvements through improved user experience. This has been true for all software, but especiallyso in the enterprise software space where collaboration is essential to daily operation and where

every ounce of productivity translates into big dollars.

While most pundits think Web 2.0 has been about making the Web participatory, enabling social

connectedness and conversations these are but side effects of the improved ease of use and

increased stickiness (fun of use) software has experienced.

As mentioned, the innovation in the consumer space is now seeping into business and

enterprise software. To date, this has largely translated into a repurposing of consumer applications

for the enterprise in an almost direct mapping. That is to say, not a lot of innovation is happening

there. Enterprise social networking start-ups are trying their damndest to convince companies they

need Facebook in the enterprise. Social bookmarking, video sharing, blogging, microblogging, mind-

mapping, etc. are all attempting to re-imagine how people work. Alas, individually these applications

dont deliver for the enterprise in a meaningful way without the network effect of their consumer

counterparts.

Here enters the Enterprise 2.0 suites. Just think about this a moment. Any modern company

has a multiplicity of disconnected data and application silos. Email, databases, files, file servers,

Intranet, CRM, ERP and a growing cloud of useful web-services. Its clear the enterprise desperately

needs a new kind of tool to connect all these systems and services and enable easy collaboration

across all of them. Now consider some of the classic scenarios that happen almost everyday in

todays so called IT savvy industries: The business requires a report to compile various parameters of

sales, revenues, costs, consumer behaviour etc. This is a typical requirement of every business. Now,even though a business has the most sophisticated IT tools installed to dig into companies data and

generate an actionable report, when, and if, you get access to requisite data from CRM, databases,

web services, etcmassaging these pieces into actionable information is again painful and time

consuming.

When successful, what fruits do your labors yield? A static (dead) document or file

that is likely trapped in email, a network file server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server or your local

computer. In short, this is yet another disconnected silo/ compartmentalized block of information that

we are so fearful about. Never to be seen again or reused.

The next time you need similar actionable information you repeat the process anew and it is

just as time consuming and painful. This is fundamentally broken and its killing the productivity ofevery company.

Now lets look at how Enterprise 2.0 is solving this problem for the future enterprises. The

interface of any Web 2.0 based application is so user friendly, that even a less technical person (not

necessarily programmers) can connect disconnected enterprise systems, databases, Web 2.0 apps,

web-services with pre-built Enterprise 2.0 based adapters. This can be done securely and with IT

governance, but its even easy for business units to do this on their own. Then anyone (of any

technical aptitude) can access information from these disconnected silos, mash it up, make it

actionable, create dynamic documents that are updated (effectively) real-time from multiple data

source and web-services.

In other words or should I say in lay mans terms just imagine a Microsoft-Word-like document

in your web browser that allows you real-time access to information in CRM, your legacy intranet,


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Microsoft Access (and other databases), LinkedIn, Twitter, Google or other APIs and more. All in an

easy to edit Word Processor like experience that is easily shared with others, versioned and

searchable with a powerful enterprise search engine. This will be the power and simplicity of an

Enterprise 2.0 based organization.

Inherent flaws with the current generation of Enterprise

Software:

(The below description of the flaws of Enterprise software is taken from a very anecdotal blog which

the author usually follows. The same has been done to retain the underlying humour.2) The

"enterprises" use a lot of software, but most of that software doesn't get sold to the "enterprise" itself;

if it gets sold at all, it gets sold to one of the employees of the "enterprise" (usually a manager), who

has the authority to spend $400 or whatever to get the software they personally use to do their job.

That's not "enterprise" software, because it's sold to an individual, not a so-called enterprise.

"Enterprise software" is software that has to be sold to an "enterprise", where someone who

doesn't use the software (typically a manager) must be persuaded to use his purchasing authority to

buy the software. It's different in a variety of ways from other software, but none of these ways are

strictly technical.

First, "enterprise software" costs more. If software doesn't cost a lot, individuals can generally

buy it themselves without managerial buy-in, although other factors may interfere; for example,everyone has to use the same bug-tracking system for it to work.

Second, "enterprise software" doesn't necessarily work, although sufficient effort can usually

make it work. An up-front $50,000 price-tag makes it seem more reasonable to spend $1000 or

$10000 to customize it to your needs before you can use it. In extreme cases, keeping the software

operational requires a team of expensive, specialized full-time employees.

The nontechnical background of many managers, in addition to the perverse incentives in

many managerial structures, often allow enterprise software to sell well even if it does not work at all,

no matter how much effort is applied.

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Third, "enterprise software" is surrounded by consultants who will sell you the service of

making it work, as explained above. In some cases, these ecosystems of consultants are competent

and highly skilled. In other cases, many of them are spectacularly incompetent; This results directly

from the sales process for "enterprise software," in which expert persuaders gull technically

incompetent managers into adopting the software. Managers who aren't technically well-informed

enough to select the software in the first place will also not be well-informed enough to distinguishbetween competent consultants and incompetent consultants.

Possible drawbacks of adopting Enterprise 2.0:

Enterprise 2.0 companies like Yammer (which calls itself Twitter for business) and Jive Software

(which calls itself Facebook for the enterprise) are undoubtedly already knocking at your door. They

offer powerful collaboration tools: friending, messaging, networking, and the other sorts of things

Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter do.

Its a fair question. Your company has data to protect, and it has specific procedures in place forsharing and distributing that data. Your systems may even be silo-based not due to inefficiency but

out of security concerns. Implementing any new technology built around sharing, networking, and

collaborating is going to fundamentally change the way these things work. For instance, a

business networking tool like LinkedIn is fine, but it doesn't need to be accessible from inside the

enterprise. An inside-the-firewall version of LinkedIn's people-finding capability, however, makes more

sense. Imagine a search finder that would help an employee in one office find someone in another

office that has exactly the right skill set to give advice on a project. This is

exactly the sort of function that an enterprise wiki, or better yet a tool like Jive Software or Teligent,

can offer from safely within the firewall. It makes collaboration easy, supports project groups, and

allows IT to maintain a greater amount of control.

Second, determine how much control you actually need. The more control, the more time and money

it is going to take to install and implement an Enterprise 2.0 solution. Its a delicate balancing act too

little control, and you might as well accept the benefits and risks of an open-by-design service like

Facebook. Impose too much control, however, and you'll send out the message that Big Brother is

watching.

Third, if you are going to implement Enterprise 2.0 tools for collaboration, messaging and so on, look

at the training costs for a particular tool. Ideally there shouldnt be any. Finally, dont lose sight of

the ultimate goal. You want an Enterprise 2.0 solution that will give users the benefits they need

collaboration, fast access to information, and flexibility with the security and management

capabilities your IT team needs. There are solutions that make it possible to strike this balance, and

its probably a good idea for your company to start looking into them. Nothing will wreak havoc onyour business faster than unhappy employees who go looking elsewhere for the tools you should be

providing them.

How Indian IT services companies fare in the Enterprise

Software Market:

Let us have an overview of the Indian IT companies in the Enterprise Software market:

Indian IT services firms are mostly doing the following bouquet of jobs in the enterprise solutionsmarket:


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1.) Advisory services for business process and requirements analysis and the recommendation,

implementation and maintenance of an enterprise software solution.

2.) IT eco-system is often fraught with legacy system environments mixed together with

enterprise software in a patched framework resulting into significantly degraded customer

experience, the result of a non-integrated, siloed approach to various enterprise activities.

Consulting and implementation of technology to streamline the above, is a major part of theservices offered to enterprises.

3.) Focused Master Data Management consulting and solutions across an enterprise, supported

by dedicated Centres of Excellence with a multidisciplinary resource pool.

4.) The key dimensions of people, process, and technology, helping enterprises succeed in their

CRM initiative with the best technology.

Drawing from the 3 year experience the author had with one of Indias fastest growing Tier-1 software

service company having a sizable enterprise software business; one can realistically assume that the

broad category of work that any Indian software services company is doing in the enterprise software

space, can be classified under 3 heading:

a.) New implementation/replacement of legacy systems by enterprise softwareb.) Enhancement/modifications for an ongoing system.

c.) Support in the day to day functioning and monitoring of enterprise systems

The service delivery map of Indian Software service companies readily makes it understandable that

how an ever-evolving collaborative platform as provided by Enterprise 2.0 will greatly supplement the

service delivery capabilities of Indian vendors; Here are some chief considerations:

1.) A large proportion of new projects to implement enterprise level solutions to a new client,

follow a similar model already successfully implemented by the same vendor to some other

client. Web 2.0 collaborative tools can be really be helpful in bringing two different teams

separated by time or distance in sharing knowledge more efficiently.

2.) One tool developed by some team for a particular project can out of the way, help anothertotally different requirement. Enterprise 2.0 can really smoothen such a collaborative work.

3.) Support to production systems of clients generally have a very tight service level agreement

(SLA requirements), so that the work, goes on, period. A fully fledged interactive platform

based on social media/Enterprise 2.0 setup between the client and vendor can effectively

fasten up the information sharing and percolation process and subsequent timely action,

across geographies and time zones.

How Web 2.0 can benefit Indian Tech Companies:

1) Speed of Execution and Effectiveness: Most web 2.0 vendors provide easy to execute

tooling that helps create applications and do back office efforts faster and cheaper and in many cases

better. Indian best of breed workforce coupled with best of breed web 2.0 tools and mashups of

applications can keep Indians outsourcing drive front of the curve.

2) Developing Creative Services: A lot of Indian companies are trying to be creative service

providers. An example would be Tutor Vista, which uses web 2.0 like services in Skype, Google talk

etc. to provide tutoring over the web. In todays flat world, Indian Companies can use their tech savvy

to its advantage by creating interesting new services that can be delivered via low cost web 2.0

technologies over the web. Web 2.0s very low to free cost models for services offered will bring in

new businesses out in the open business that were not given access to delivering and selling

because of high infrastructure costs in the past.


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3) Leveraging Community in Solution Building: A lot of the web 2.0 participants are techies who love

solving other peoples technical problems online especially if they are challenging. Using blogs, wikis

and other web 2.0 sources, engineers working in India can leverage global tech talents in solving

critical technical issues for the client.

4) Create Consumer Driven Cult Following: If you look at the most popular TV shows in America

today, you will get a glimpse of how consumers are true bosses. Most popular shows like American

Idol, So You Think You Can Dance etc. are literally driven by consumer votes. This power harnessed

by the people and not by some buttoned down judge helps create a cult following. For the first

time ever, an un released movie called Snakes On a Plane has received mass publicity through

blogs, podcasts etc. all of which were driven by fans (read consumers). Heck they even made

demands through web 2.0 forums on what some dialogues would be in the movie. The production unit

went back and shot scenes as demanded in blogs showing true power in the hands of consumers.

Drawing parallel to it in the tech world, active open communication and mind sharing through blogs, or

managing requirements real time without putting a structural workflow around it can provide you a

pathway to make a true connection with your customers and create a sense of stakeholder

ownership.

5) Being Early Adopters: A lot of the Indian tech Companies have been in business for less

than 10 years. They maintain a dynamic culture, which is willing to try out things. This highly contrasts

some traditional IT shops in American where change is resisted in all possible ways. Industry trends

suggest that web 2.0 s the way of the future. Time will tell if this analysis will hold true. However, if

web 2.0 reigns supreme in the years to come, Indian companies will leap to the forefront of that

movement by being early adopters of web 2.0 technology and fine tuning it to fit their existing

business model. This may be an opportunity for Indian tech companies to be leaders in web 2.0

movement by not only being power users but being lead developers of new tools and content.

Putting It All Together Faster, cheaper and better is the web 2.0 mantra that gets people excited.

However, just like any new trend, there is a lot of buzz around web 2.0, when the reality is that a lot ofthe players will get strike out very soon. Besides, the web 2.0 architecture needs some work.

Developers still struggle from switching between APIs. RSS have competing formats and so on.

Beyond all the hype, the emerging web 2.0 standard, combined with cheap tools, AJAX programming

and open source platform may truly reshape the tech industry of the future. One suggestion for the

Indian tech companies who would want to understand how web 2.0 can benefit their model is to put a

small pilot team in place to start studying what web 2.0 is all about.

Picture courtesy : http://www.mindtouch.com


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Potential Benefits of Enterprise 2.0:

Enterprise will have more effective internal communication:

According to IDC report social platforms emerged as one of leading technology trends for many

corporate, as they are looking easy ways to collaborate, interact and share data. Earlier organisations

followed structured path for communication where information flowed from top to bottom and very

rarely few suggestions from bottom to top. But with changing organisational strategies communication

has become across the organisation and there is no more top to bottom/bottom to top models.

Technological advancements have helped organisations achieve this. And Enterprise 2.0 is the

manifestation of the same.

Enterprise will have avenues for internal collaboration for faster turn around and higher productivity:

With enterprise 2.0 technology companies can use their intranet to increase confidence level of

employees as it offers a platform for interaction with each other within organisation. It enhances

productivity and helps maximising employee participation and cross team collaboration. Top techfirms are realising that keeping the new generation glued, they need changes beyond pure salaries,

which is already considered hygiene by new recruits. Let us take one such successful initiative.

Launched around two years ago by Cognizant, the C2 already has around 60,000 active users and

the site records over six million page views every month. (The author was himself an active part of

such an initiative)

From the time a new customer project is kicked off, to when its actually delivered, Cognizant 2.0

glues the entire workflow together, across varied skills, geographies and business units.For Cognizant

as an organisation, the system helps it not only knit the project groups together, but also reduce the

entire time taken to identify who can do a particular project better than the rest.

The system works much like a Google searchProject managers put the skill set required, and the

system throws up different project teams and individuals with prior experience in dealing with suchsituations. Some 7,000 projects are already registered in the system, and employees have shared

around 200,000 posts about these projects.

At TCS, the countrys biggest software exporter, nearly one third of its over 1,50,000-strong workforce

is actively participating in the companys social media platforms already. TCS uses wikis, or

personalised, websites that bring together specialised communities, apart from other tools to help its

employees collaborate better. While Justask enables employees to ask questions openly, Ideamax

encourages employees to share their ideas about a particular technology or a process.

Employee Development:

This system will give the senior workforce more chance to network with their younger employees.

Leaders who connect to mentees in an enterprise 2.0 network can stay in touch with them more

easily, understand their strengths and offer them more opportunities. They can mentor on an ambient

level, openly broadcasting their ideas, knowledge and help for mentees or anyone to consider, by

sharing their thoughts on micro-blog systems, and they can receive feedback the same way.

There is no free lunch. Mentees may take to Facebook easily but still find social

networking at workplace awkward. In surveys and interviews of interns and new hires, it is frequently

heard that they don't see the value of that kind of connection in the workplace. But the reasons why lie

less with them than with organizational culture. When you're new to an organization, your relationship

networks are usually limited and have little built-in trust. Millennials who converse freely with their

friends socially are often told at work to stay strictly work-focused. This can limit the depth of their

conversations and keep them from developing trust and extensive networks. Enterprise 2.0 will give

them that one chance to liberation.


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Effective Enterprise external communication:

In the era of social networks implementing Enterprise 2.0 will make the organizations much more

transparent and more press or media savvy. The time is going to come when the media as we know it

will be present only on the virtual or web 2.0 based interactive world. Until and unless organizations

fundamentally inculcate a 2.0 based culture, they will be left behind in the times to come.

IT companies and the open source movement:

More collaborative and social networking based Enterprises, will certainly be more open source in

their software requirements. Software which is conceived, written, tested and implemented all at a

community level will form the backbone of a new generation of tools. Enterprise 2.0 will effectively be

a win for the open source movement as well.

Expertise location : Expertise

location capability provides corporations the ability to solve business problems that are difficult to

articulate or communicate explicitly and involve highly skilled people. Dynamic people profiles andsearches are increasingly seen as integral components of a support environment that encourages

unplanned collaboration and informal interactions as effective ways to solve business problems.

Expertise Location increases productivity and organizational success by identifying the status and

location of human expertise in globally dispersed and increasingly virtual organizations. Publishing of

the employee profiles and searches against those profiles are increasingly seen as integral

components of business process that encourages unplanned collaboration and informal interactions

as effective ways to solve business problems. Social networks tools help Manager find the right

person / group for the appropriate position

Corporate blogging

Like personal blogs, corporate blogs use blogging technology - in this case for leadership messages,

online journals and knowledge-management forums. Google Inc. and Facebook, Inc. pioneered this

practice within their own corporations. Instead of a flashy launch even or a press conference,

corporations have started to use internal and external corporate blogs. Corporate blogs are becoming

a part of the standard set of corporate communication tools and the emerging portfolio of social-media

tools. Features like tags and rating help corporate employees find content and make judgements

about policies or procedures.

Corporate wikis

Corporate wikis provide an easy-to-use environment for subject-matter experts to publish their

interpretation on any subject. A corporate wiki can capture corporate acronyms. Large corporations

create a roll-up wiki so that individual divisions have the flexibility to add items to their wiki and make

a decision on which items should roll up to the corporate level. Wikis, like blogs, provide platforms for

collaborating and communication.

Internal community platforms:

Internal community platforms provide an environment for corporate employees to create a virtual

forum to share their opinions, knowledge and subject-matter expertise on topics of interest. Usually

community platforms centre around a particular topic of interest. Generally [quantify] the community

participates in an unstructured exchange of ideas which could mature given significant interest fromthe community.


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Idea generation:

Also known as ideation - can involve a structured business methodology for collecting and incubating

innovative ideas that could mature with community participation. Large corporations use idea

management systems to solicit ideas from their customers and employees. Idea generation in somecases fuels the product pipeline. Enterprise 2.0 will make it much more streamlined.

Government 2.0:

When the concept of Enterprise 2.0 is super-imposed on the functioning of the government we may

dream of getting a collaborative government in which people have their say in its day to day

functioning. This would then be the real decentralization of power and the real democratization of the

masses.

Summary:

Enterprise 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0 technologies within an organization to enable or streamline

business processes while enhancing collaboration - connecting people through the use of social-

media tools. Enterprise 2.0 aims to help employees, customers and suppliers collaborate, share, and

organize information the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between

companies and their partners or customers3. The potential usability of an Enterprise 2.0 enabled

system can be simply stated as a knowledge repository which is not a static, dead-end silo, but a

Microsoft-Word-like document in your web browser that allows you real-time access to information in

CRM, your legacy intranet, Microsoft Access (and other databases), LinkedIn, Twitter, Google orother APIs and more. Its a foregone conclusion that the current enterprise software are bulky,

expensive, insensitive to customer needs and are really hard to maintain. But incorporating Enterprise

2.0 will not only revolutionize their usage, but also make the organizations as a whole, much more

futuristic. Indian IT services companies can greatly benefit from Enterprise 2.0. The immense benefits

in general that will come forth once organizations (and not only software companies) start adapting to

this new concept. The more important of the potential benefits will be: more effective communication

inside and outside the enterprise to various stakeholders, development and mentoring of employees,

Idea generation, Idea collaboration, more effective staffing ,and a farfetched yet realistic idea of more

effective governance and democracy.

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