Why we are here!

business web 2.0 solutions We're here for business unit heads, team leaders, project heads, and managers whose work depends on reaching across silos or through an extended enterprise of suppliers and customers. Anyone managing or facilitating the efforts of teams or work groups. The point here is that without having the whole organization moving in the right direction, at the right time, in the right place, the disruptive challenges ahead, many, will hurt individual, group, and overall corporate performance. Stay connected - RSS Feeds/Site Map

Consider our proposition:

The open-source movement developed because people had an "itch to scratch". One that "off-the-shelf" software did not support or was too costly to use. In the open source community people contribute, learn and share their knowledge and experience. Keep in mind we work with open source - there are 1000's of projects available. Knowing what works, how it works, and where it works are key ingredients in our value proposition. Of course, there is more to a solution than just software. However, in the oss communities they use an open innovation model. One where collaboration, diversity, and connecting are paramount to success. We learn from them as well as from other sources so we can pass on the best solutions to you. We're offering our experience with:

internal communications, how people work together - collaborate,
help amplify talent development through rich learning environments,
create and implement social web and rich internet/intranet applications to meet ever changing market demands,
implement an innovation platform around networks of people,
create idea and resource exchanges across the organization,

"Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age" video by Karl Fisch.

The best way to get started is with a pilot project that focuses solely on how people work together.

The Economic and Social Foundations of Collaborative Innovation by Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM Corporation

...despite having built a highly successful, profitable business on a proprietary model, IBM takes the open source movement in its many manifestations very seriously. Working in an open community is for us a no-nonsense business decision, made only after considerable analysis of the technology and market trends, and due diligence on the community, its licensing and governance, and the quality of its offerings.

What is different today is that for the first time, in large part because of the Internet, we have the capacity to self-organize into groups fluidly and globally. The firm is no longer the only -- or, in some circumstances, the optimal - institution for organizing productive, value-creating work. And that promises a much more diverse and exciting -- and very innovative -- kind of marketplace.

Resist Change At Your Own Peril

Why good companies fail. There are six externalities that bring about change. They are regulation, capital markets, competition, technology, globalization and customers. When any of these external contexts changes radically and the company is either unable or unwilling to change, it often results in failure.

What we are offering is skunk works stuff, not huge top-down systems that you install and then try to convince people to use. With our services combined with open source software, employees want to use it to solve problems, get ideas, and get their work done. They want to find, discover, connect, create, and collaborate on new products/services/processes to blow past the competition.

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The back story

There's more to a solution than just software. How will you make your project a living, breathing and growing one? Using traditional metrics to find a return on investment for a web 2.0 project is challenging.

We've learned a lot working in business development and with open-source social software and web 2.0 applications. We figured out what works, how it works, and where it works, so we can save you time and money.

What's more, in open-source communities, we use an open innovation process, which encourages participation. The level of participation is a central principle of web 2.0 and the best measure of ROI.

We'll help you integrate and apply the right processes as well as develop and implement the right technologies. Call us at 973.433.4007 to get a scalable, first-class solution.

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Scenario 1. An internal customer has come to you with a problem. Her team is consistently missing deadlines because of poor communication. E-mails frequently go unread for days, members don't respond to questions in a timely fashion and too many meetings are required to get everybody back on track.

Other email problems include: internal spam, idiot attachments, cc's, cya, and my fav - reply all. Make better connections to improve internal communications and internal branding .

Scenario 2. You're losing business. Customers are defecting to competitors. Your web site is like a museum - look but don't touch and customer experience is non-existent. The information is outdated, hard to find and reflects poorly on your brand. It has no connection to the social web or support for sharing information - rss/xml .

The site has no facility for customer interaction or user generated content - reviews, recommendations, voting, comments, etc. Sharing ideas (so they can become viral across the net) and having actionable information is simply impossible. Redesign your site - join the social web and improve marketing and sales.

Scenario 3. You have problems - gaps - that your business strategy and IT applications fail to address. Your employees, customers, and stakeholders want to get work done. You need to innovate and help people find solutions.

Your intranet or web site is outdated - broken. There's no mechanism for follow-up on training, events, conference calls, or conferences. No search. The left hand doens't know what the right hand is doing.

There's no easy way to capture, share, and track important yet informal information. The kind of information that is not organized or reused - it should be - but tends to get lost. The kind that helps you make better decisions, improve work flows, and customer support. Redesign your site - make your information actionable.

Improving Sales and Productivity

Advancing Insights helps businesses unlock and apply the benefits of social networking, content management, online communities, collaborative tools, Web 2.0 technologies, enterprise blogging, and social e-comm.

We take a hybrid approach between open source, closed source, functionality, risk and support to deliver solutions that marry technology and processes. Ones that balance form and function - user experience and social information management.

Grow your business. We offer novel ways of producing value - improved marketing, sales and productivity - at very low cost.