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Is the Enterprise Ready for 2.0?

The American alligator may be considered an anomaly of Darwinian evolution. It weighs four hundred pounds, has a brain the size of an olive and a relatively mediocre sense of sight and hearing. Yet, it has been a card-carrying member of the ecosystem for two hundred million years. It's survival secret? Some very sophisticated sensory capabilities that can detect the smallest movement of its prey in water and a bite that can exert two thousand pounds per square inch of pressure.

Like the alligator, there are a lot of technology solutions in large enterprise IT ecosystems that survive on brute force and the ability to do a few functions extremely well. Several of these solutions have survived for many years and are an indispensable part of the enterprise environment. New technologies that fail to recognize the dependency on legacy technologies and can not integrate with them are easily marginalized in the enterprise ecosystem. Can disruptive technologies such as Enterprise 2.0 be successfully deployed in such IT environments? Yes. However, they have to crawl before they can walk or run and more importantly they have to co-exist with the alligators.

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