Sjaak Koot said... > My name is Sjaak Koot and, in the context of my Masters at Leiden > University School of Management, I am conducting a research project on the > "Diffusion of applications from a private context to a professional > context". In other words, my objective is to determine whether there are > individuals who introduced IT applications (acquired outside the > organizational context) into the organization; and if so, how this knowledge > about the new IT application is processed by the organization.
Hi Sjaak, First, since you are doing you masters then I can be a little pedantic ;-) Diffusion means spread out over an area rather than in a particular direction, so in the context of you title, I would argue that it's the wrong word, particularly given your description. I think that a better word would be propagation. Thus, Propagation of applications from a private context to a professional context. and your description isn't required. > Does anyone have experience of introducing/trying to introduce pmwiki into > an professional organisation after having it used for private purposes. Yes, I do. > I would be interested in postings about cases you perceive as: > * "successful" > * "failed" > * or more "neutral" It was very successful. > If you were involved in such a situation, I would very much appreciate if > you could send me an email mentioning: I'll do it here. > [1] what you were using pmwiki for in the private context (before > introducing it to the organisation). My personal data dump. I used to use a program called 'The Journal' on Windows, but I realised that a wiki would ultimately prove to be more functional should I be able to find one that met my requirements. After a few false starts - dokuwiki was close - I ended up with PmWiki. > [1] [2] etc. > a short story (a couple of lines) summarizing about how the organization > "responded" to the introduction The first organisation I introduced PmWiki was a small tech shop (20-odd employees) using Sharepoint. Everyone bar the dictatorial CEO/founder loathed Sharepoint, but for no other reason that it didn't solve any of their issues. Because of PmWiki's price, and a little persistence, it was possible to propose running PmWiki in parallel to Sharepoint. After one week there was no going back. The tech staff adopted it in no time; the admin folk needed a little more hand holding. It's still there. > [2] your function in the organization, Half man, half geek. If I said consultant then I'd be considered a bottom feeder. > [3] whether you would be accept a follow-up interview Yup. > All the information will be treated confidentially. No problem, I won't name names :-) -- Cheers, Marc _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
