Finally…

[Sean Lew]

I have been pretty quiet over the past few weeks as I have been preparing my paper for submission to ICIS’09. Its titled “Analyzing the Business Benefits Potential of Enterprise 2.0″. In a nutshell, the aim of this paper is to identify suitable theories which could be used to analyze the potential benefits that Enterprise 2.0 applications hold for organizations.

When I first embarked on this journey to write this paper (by the way, I rewrote this paper 4 times from scratch), I felt I knew all the benefits and just had to link it to theories. I was wrong… extremely wrong. I felt the full force of rigorous academic research and I was pretty blown away. Everything had an explanation, a cause and effect and ultimately a reference. Even though I have completed a few academic papers previously, it wasn’t the same. The research areas that I discussed were well establish areas and it wasn’t difficult to find information to support my reasoning. There were much material ready for me to be used. But in the case of Enterprise 2.0, there was almost nothing!

In this paper, I listed the common Enterprise 2.0 benefits as discussed industry experts and from case studies. I then went on to find an explanation and support for these benefits. If there are any theories that could explain it better and use it as a framework to analyze the potential benefits.

It was an extremely enriching experience and I totally hooked onto understanding Enterprise 2.0 not based on buzz terms and hype. I will share the paper with everyone shortly.



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