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Dione Hinchcliffe of the Dachis Group recently published his Top 12 predictions for what will happen to “social business” in 2012.
We are seeing all sorts of predictions like these, and I enjoy reading every expert’s predictions in this space. Perficient is heavily involved in social collaboration for businesses with our portal and collaboration practice. In fact, we’re getting our experts ready to exhibit and present at Lotusphere 2012 which is just next month, and where the tagline is “Business. Made Social.”
Here are Hinchcliffe’s predictions for 2012. What are yours?
- Social shifts to mobile.
- Analytics and business intelligence (BI) becomes standard fare.
- Gamification doesn’t happen, yet.
- Social intranets struggle forward, social business processes don’t.
- Smaller social business vendors continue to get rolled up.
- The social business unit/center of excellence phenomenon continues.
- Internal and external social business efforts blur, but remain distinct.
- Customer-facing social “hockey sticks”.
- Community management goes pro.
- Social business budgets go up another level.
- The year will close with a consensus (or lack thereof) on enterprise social apps.
- Social business becomes less art, and more science.
I recently read an article about how Google is advertising the fact that “60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google.” What Google is saying with this statement is that many states have decided to begin using Google’s inexpensive enterprise software solutions that are largely web-based: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, etc.
IBM’s WebSphere Portal team interviewed Perficient’s Mike Porter, principal of portals and director of collaboration with Perficient, at the IBM Portal Excellence Conference, October 14, 2009. They discussed Perficient’s partnership with IBM’s WebSphere solution and how portal solutions are solving communication and collaboration problems for organizations. I received the full transcript and decided to pick out some highlights for you. Below is an edited version of the interview.