My idea is a Scrum-based social networking service for organizations.
Scrum is a popular framework for managing complex work. An essential part of the Scrum method is so-called Daily Scrum, which is an every morning happening short meeting where members of a project team answer the following questions:1) what one has done since yesterday,2) what one is planning to do today, and3) do one has any problems preventing to accomplish his/her goal.
In future office, every employee would be required to use this Scrum-based network to share and receive information on other people's activities and work. Employees would start their every workday by using the service and writing their answers to the three questions mentioned above.
In practice, the service would automatically aggregate and present employees' status updates by using some criteria like membership in a project, organizational function or process or keyword/metatag. Powerful search functions would be also available. The system would be also highly interactive: first, anybody could see anyone's activities and second, employees could comment status messages e.g. for offering help. People could also forward status messages to some third person.
The service would offer a very powerful tool for managers to manage the work by providing accurate and up-to-date information what employees are doing and what issues there are preventing the progress. More importantly, the service would enable totally new kind of information flows between the employees. People who would not normally meet could now e.g. change ideas online.
Compared to the current one-to-to e-mail and telephone communication often jammed in organizational units, this service would dramatically improve the efficiency and productivity in any organization by enabling natural and transparent spill of information. Finally, as distinct from other "enterprise Facebooks" the service would eliminate vain socializing by using Scrum's three well-defined questions.
it might be that the daily scrum updates give false impressions of progress, employees who strugle to complete a task may not want to acknowledge that to their peers, nor do managers really want to share all their daily tasks with all others, but I am sure that this idea can work in projects as such,