Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration Technologies
Monday, June 20, 2011, 9 am - 12:15 pm
This workshop and discussion is tightly focused on defining and selling the business value and use case of Enterprise 2.0 inside your business. It will offer an abundance of strategic planning information on the realities of preparing your case for management and budget discussions.
We aim to cover ‘Monday morning 9am at your desk’ – real world problem solving.
Typically there are urgent tasks that cannot currently be accomplished well with existing infrastructure, but how do you practically leverage the promise of modern 2.0 technologies to achieve success?
The workshop will cover clarity on what business problems you are solving, aligning value propositions and benefits with existing Governance, Regulation and Compliance (GRC), plus new corporate governance may need to be in place prior to launch and the subsequent drive towards enduring use of your new collaborative enterprise.
Relevance: How do you align and make tangible the business value of Enterprise 2.0 methods and associated technologies to be valuable in the context of your business?
Relevance: How to get those that run critical functions in the enterprise (Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Product Management) to understand the strategic value of social computing towards improving their odds of success
Politics: How do you tackle conflicts of interest between your line of business needs and other divisions, departments and partner organizations?
Scale: Point solutions can be very effective to surface information and communication within a specific group but how do you scale and interact with other, similar internal organizational collaboration networks?
Roadmaps: How do you go about envisioning a longer term roadmap for design and integration of existing processes and technologies?
Roll Out: what you should look for in pilots, how to design them so they can be repeated and eventually drive business performance
Budgeting: Identifying the best solutions at scale across the entire enterprise where appropriate as well as associated staffing needs; combining existing collaborative environments into a single network and defining strategy.
Who Should Attend
Business Executives and CIOs trying to understand how social computing can help them achieve their performance goals
Owners of “E2.0”, Enterprise Collaboration Programs that need to align their (often multiple) initiatives with goals and objectives that departmental and LOB executives consider important
Instructor: Oliver Marks
Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, ZDNet Collaboration 2.0
Oliver Marks brings seasoned consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of collaboration strategy, tactics, technology decisions, change management and roll out.
With extensive senior management practical experience in international enterprise collaboration, Oliver previously managed the Sony WorldWide collaboration extranet, and has worked with the American Management Association, Sun, Docent/SumTotal Systems, Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company on major initiatives around knowledge transfer and change management.
Oliver has worked on Asian, European and American global enterprise collaboration initiatives and writes the ZDNet 'Collaboration 2.0' blog.
Contact Oliver on Twitter @olivermarks or by email
Instructor: Sameer Patel
Partner, Sovos Group and blogger, PretzelLogic.org
Sameer is a partner at the Sovos Group. Sameer has more than a decade of experience leading initiatives for large organizations helping them define and execute sustainable programs that drive lead generation, business partner network optimization, sales and marketing operational effectiveness, innovation, customer acquisition and employee productivity via communication and collaboration constructs.
Previously, Sameer was a Director at SpanStrategies and Liquid Thinking and led the Practice Lead, West Coast Tech Strategy Consulting Group atmarchFIRST/ USweb/ Mitchell Madison Group.
Organizations that he has had the privilege to work on strategic global initiatives with include Ingres, Sun Microsystems, KPMG, McKesson HBOC, WR WrigleyCo., The Sabre Group, Grupo Televisa (Mx), and Cardinal Health.
Sameer is an advisory Board Member and Co-Chair: E2.0 Strategy and Planning Track at Enterprise 2.0 Conference. He also serves as an advisor to te Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV).
Maksim is widely recognized as a thought leader and as an innovative strategist in the area of Human Capital Management. He is a frequent speaker and has published numerous articles related to next generation thinking in the areas of People Management, Human Capital Management, Social Networking and Collaboration. Maksim holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Stanford University, a Master's of Science Degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the Leavy School of Business at Santa Clara University. As an innovative product evangelist in the software industry, Maksim has a passion for making social software business relevant, and an aspiration for beautifully simple SaaS products. Maksim is currently the VP of Product Management at Rypple, social performance management platform built for the way we work today. His past roles included product management and product strategy positions at Zendesk, IBM, ADP and Saba.
