Open Enterprise 2009: Research Study and Report

I am glad to announce that Oliver Marks and I are collaborating on what we hope will be the definitive study into both the state of the practice and the future trends for Web 2.0 adoption in the enterprise: we call this project Open Enterprise 2009: Research Study and Report.

Over the next six months, Oliver and I will be poking and prodding to find out what companies are actually doing, what technologies are most applied, and what are the emerging benchmarks for enterprise adoption of modern web technologies and patterns of use?

We have selected the term ‘Open’ to characterize the revolution that this transition will mean, but we do not know at this point exactly how to define it. That is a one of the goals of this study, although I know in my heart that openness is one of the primary characteristics that we will discover through this project.

We will be logging our thoughts, interviews, observations, and developing research agenda at a new blog dedicated to the project, here: Open Enterprise 2009: Open Enterprise 2009: Research Study and Report.

We are interested in sponsorship, and those companies that become involved as sponsors will have various benefits, including association with our goals which are principally getting to the heart of what’s going on and sharing that with the greater community of interest. Please contact me if you are interested at stowe dot boyd at gmail dot com.

Our first action is to invite the participation of the the large and growing community of people who are involved in any and all aspects of this, which may prove to be the Year Of The Enterprise for Web 2.0. Please visit the blog, click through to the User Voice instance that is set up and tell us what you’d like us to investigate, and vote on the suggestions of others. We appreciate your interest, whether you are a practitioner, a vendor, a CIO, or just an employee in some large company wondering what is coming down the pike.

We will be presenting our results at various venues during the year, like Web 2.0 Expo and Enterprise 2.0, and posting all along the way at /OE09, so stay tuned.