Wikis, Weblogs and RSS

We’re gearing up for Kevin Werbach’s Supernova 2005 here in San Francisco next week.  JSB and I will be speaking there and there’s a host of interesting people featured on the agenda.  One person in particular that I am looking forward to seeing again is Philip Evans from Boston Consulting Group.  Philip and I go way back – we both entered BCG at the same time even though, to his dismay, I departed after two years to make the trek to Silicon Valley to do a business start-up.  Philip stayed at BCG, wrote a great book, Blown to Bits, and we have managed to stay in touch off and on over the years.

In preparation for Supernova, Philip did an interview on "Wikis, Weblogs and RSS" along with another friend, Ross Mayfield, and Janice Fraser, the CEO of Adaptive Path. It is an interesting read on what the new Internet means for business. For my money, Philip puts a bit too much emphasis on transaction costs and not nearly enough discussion of the role of the new Internet in driving innovation and capability building, but then I just wrote a book on this.

For those who haven’t seen it yet, JSB and I did a similar interview with Kevin Werbach on "Can Your Firm Develop a Sustainable Edge?" (accessing the interview requires a brief and free registration).