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I am sitting here, sipping my free cup of coffee at McDonald's, looking across the parking lot at the huge going-out-of-business banners strung across the entrance to my local Circuit City store.
"I wonder," I joked with the McDonald's manager, who I know pretty well, "if they had to pay for those banners up front and in cash?"
There's an embedded hierarchy in the deployment of Web 2.0 technology. Our interview, observation, and survey data all suggest that the lowest-hanging fruit -- surprise -- gets picked first.1 Wikis, blogs, and social networks -- perhaps because of their C2C origins -- have been deployed more than the other technologies.
I am sitting here, sipping my free cup of coffee at McDonald's, looking across the parking lot at the huge going-out-of-business banners strung across the entrance to my local Circuit City store.
"I wonder," I joked with the McDonald's manager, who I know pretty well, "if they had to pay for those banners up front and in cash?"
Making business decisions is never easy. It becomes progressively more complicated as those around us offer their "two cents' worth" on how we should act or what practices we should adopt. And the sheer number of those around us sometimes means that we receive input from a host of different parties, all with different perspectives.
About three years ago, the term "Web 2.0" entered into public consciousness, first propagating through the blogosphere, then appearing in the mainstream business and technology media, and more recently on the agenda of a global research community. When it appeared, some greeted the term as a welcome lifeline in the postdot-bomb era; others dismissed it as marketing hype. But one thing was clear: no one knew quite what it meant.
Executive Update
Institutionalizing Governance in Complex Global Organizations
Corporate governance is the means by which accountability to stakeholders is ensured, yet organizations often fail at creating governance plans that align with the organizational context. They also fail at institutionalizing governance that spans levels and processes in the business, particularly in global, multicultural organizations. In this Executive Update, we introduce value-based adaptive models for business governance structure design, operational planning, and implementation for complex global organizations.