Enterprises continue to adopt web technologies and ‘web 2.0′ trends, but there are two common threads to this adoption. One is that web technologies are step-by-step being adopted by enterprises, but they aren’t yet ready to usurp many desktop software apps. The Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate currently raging is proof of that. The second thread is that enterprises have a fear of web 2.0 tools being mis-used by their employees.
As always Web 2.0 will challenge the existing power structures within corporations. Few existing officers of formal power in the corporation (read CIO or CEO), have any idea of the brains that can be harnessed within their strata of employees, and certainly wiki power will only serve to undermine their centralized control. How can you supplant central executive control with employee creativity and anarchy?
