Mopsos

I have been arguing many times about the need for a new form of governance of Informations Systems whereby new tools and forms of collaboration could be introduced in the enterprise from the ground up, rather than from the top down. Others have argued (Tom Stewart, John Maloney etc.) that the business world was moving away from the linear "value chain" model and more into the "value network" model epitomized by the movie industry.

Well, it seems that we have a good example of this. Intel's Press Release on SuiteTwo shows that Intel chose such a model to develop its enterprise collaboration solution.

Instead of developing an enterprise collaboration suite from scratch or from existing OpenSource code, Intel chose to bring together some of the "best of breed" Web 2.0 applications into a single offering:

• Movable Type (blogs)


• Socialtext (wikis)


• NewsGator (RSS aggregator)


• SimpleFeed (RSS Publishing and Analytics)


• SpikeSource (industrialization of Open Source software)

The distribution partners of SuiteTwo are: Dell, Nec, and Intel. Wow.

This is an interesting model. If it works, it will undoubtedly be a landmark and a milestone in the networked economy, because Intel really acts the same way as a movie producer starring Mena Trott, Ross Mayfield, J.B. Holston, Mark Carlson and Kim Polese (Talking about a movie cast!). Dell and Nec are acting as the distributors of the movie. The fact that the main actors have been knowing each other for a long time is likely to make the difference.

Question is: who will be the Steven Spielberg of SuiteTwo?

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