In their afternoon keynote session today at Enterprise 2.0, cofounders of consultancy Information Architected Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen shared some preliminary findings from their latest report in partner with The 2.0 Adoption Council.

Unlike Web 2.0 applications, enterprise 2.0 solutions don’t necessarily enjoy the luxury of rapid viral adoption; but unlike typical enterprise applications, e2.0 solutions aren’t difficult to learn and start using. Therefore, the survey reaffirmed that resistance from organizations is real. What was surprising, however, was that the results from their recent survey indicated that resistance wasn’t coming from the usual suspects (among attendees here at Enterprise 2.0, the culprit was the technology department), but that it was coming from the users.

For those who reported resistance from management, some of the top concerns were:

For those who reported resistance from the technology departments, top concerns included:

Nevertheless, the m onetary invest ments companies are making into enterprise 2.0 suggests that they are making a concentrated e ffort to expand this initiative.

For their entire 2.0 budgets, r espondents reported spending:

Driving adoption, Frappaolo said, is not magic, adding that it requires:

“Stop horsing around,” he said. “This isn’t child’s play.” The challenge many E2.0 champions — many of whom expressed this concern throughout the conference –  are struggling with, he admitted, was the ability to illustrated quantifiable ROI. “[E2.0] benefits don’t lend themselves very nicely to financial spreadsheets,” Frappaolo said. “but trouble with ROI doesn’t mean they’re not seeing benefits.”

[Correction: The previous edition of this posted featured past content from a separate survey.]