Web 2.0, c’est construire un tunnel dans une montagne, l’entreprise 2.0 c’est construire un tunnel sous l’eau
Un billet de Thomas Vander Wal sur l’entreprise 2.0 et le Web 2.0.
Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0
That this is getting at is Web 2.0 takes work to build to get through the earth, but once built it can suffer from imperfections and still work well. The tunnel can crack and crumble a little, but still get used with diminished capacity. We can look at Facebook, which has a rather poor interface and still gets used. Twitter is another example of a Web 2.0 solution that has its structural deficiencies and outages, but it still used as well as still loved (their Fail Whale is on a t-shirt now and a badge of pride worn by loyal users).
The Enterprise 2.0 tunnel is built under water. This takes more engineering understanding, but it also requires more fault testing and assurances. A crack or crumbling of a tool inside an organization is not seen kindly and raises doubts around the viability of the tool. The shear volume of users inside an organization using these tools is orders of magnitude less than in the open consumer web world, but faults are more deadly”
La métaphore est intéressante parce que effectivement, construire un tunnel dans le roc, donc les applications du Web 2.0, ne sont pas nécessairement les plus solides et stables, le produit peut être remplacé et le comportement social est assez populaire pour continuer d’exister (confiance et intérêt). Alors que dans le cadre d’une organisation, c’est comme un tunnel sous l’eau, les gens ont peur des conséquences des fuites, des erreurs potentielles et des répercussions professionnelles et concurrentielles.