Had an interesting article entitled “Why we mustn’t miss Web 2.0″ from The Australian come through my Factiva alert covering “Enterprise 2.0″. The term “enterprise 2.0″ is never used but the meaning is embedded throughout.

John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, is quoted as saying, “It’s about the power of the human network. People working closer together. It will change everything in business, from your innovation models and your supply chain to your bottom line.”

The article discusses at length the school environment and how that too will be positively impacted by the Web 2.0 technologies the are just now starting to power the enterprise revolution. We should consider educational institutions enterprises as well, their output being human capital rather shareholder return. In this context, Chambers states “Future learning will be more collaborative. You learn together in a group, which has a much more lasting impact.” The same is true for the corporation.

The final point of the article discusses how leadership will have to change as well. That the days of decisions going up to the CEO and back to the employee base is going to be dramatically different due to the existence of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities “because everyone can talk to each other” in the new paradigm.

This is just more evidence that Cisco plans on being at the forefront of the Enterprise 2.0 frontier, not that they’ve made any secret about it with their public statements and recent acquisition spree.