These conversations were personal, honest and context-rich. And they were perhaps the most important source of innovation and value-add in our corporate culture.
To go even further, the really cool conversations I was having usually started with someone saying “you know, I was talking to so-and-so, and we came up with the idea that …” so we had one conversation feeding into another.
If you believe that conversations were creating incredible business value, maybe the focus should be on having many more conversations, much more easily.
Conversations lead to passionate topics of mutual interest.
Passionate topics of interest lead to ad-hoc community formation.
Community formation leads to collaboration around shared activities, including document collaboration.
Community collaboration is the quintessential magic of all things E2.0.
So, not to oversimplify, but if EMC got really, really good at starting interesting conversations, the rest would follow naturally and organically.
