I think everyone has those moments when all of the little threads of information and experience come into alignment and you get a moment of clarity. It is a great feeling. It just happened to me coming out of the Enterprise 2.0 conference last week.
Overall the conference was great, if for nothing more than the people I met. But I digress...
Thursday night after I got home, I was washing dishes when it hit me, all the conversations, everything I had been reading for the last few years. Everything synthesized into a single compelling idea.
In today's world the rate at which the volume of content is increasing, is outstripping the ability of organizations to develop systems to manage that information. The only solution that will allow effective access to this information is one that is simple, open and allows for emergence. There is no way to design and build a structured information system fast enough to keep up with the rate of change of content. This can only be done by a system to without predetermined structure and strict rules. Sound like a recipe for chaos? Exactly!
Now I am not advocating the elimination of all structured systems. All I am saying is that we need to augment our existing systems, processes and structures with a new framework of interconnectedness that facilitates the emergence of new ways of interacting and moving information.
Is this what "Enterprise 2.0" is all about. I am not sure. But I am sure that we are going in the right direction.