Category Archives: Concepts

General thoughts, musings and theory about social media and how it may impact organizations.

Business Operations Model

Welcome to E Quint Consulting. If you’re new here, you may want to find out what E Quint does or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I seem to be getting into modeling a lot lately. Last week in my post, Business Basics, I offered up a structural model of business. Today I am […]

Relationship Technology

I am tired of feeling uncomfortable and imprecise with the existing general terminology that describes

Social Media
Enterprise 2.0
Web 2.0
Social Networks
Blogs
 etc.

None of these work well as an umbrella term. In light of that, I am going to start using
Relationship Technology
as my general term. You may like it or not, I don’t care. It works for me. So there!
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Business Basics

I am one of those people that likes to look at complex problems from a very high, fundamentally simple perspective. If you can get a firm grasp of the basics, you always have a better chance of dealing effectively with the tactical details of a problem.
I have often pondered the basics of business and, as I […]

WWPFDS

What would Peter F. Drucker Say?
54 years ago Drucker published The Practice of Management. It is without a doubt the most important business book ever written. It is sad how few people in business have actually read it. One passage that I find particularly compelling, highlights how far most organizations are, even today, from understanding what […]

Is “Social Media” Really Social?

These days when it seems that everyone is extolling the virtues of social collaboration, it may seem odd to ask if social media is social. My point here is not to question the value of social collaboration, but to take a deeper look at the underlying characteristics of the tool-set we refer to as “social […]

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