The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable contextual, agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.
Enterprise 2.0 is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Enterprise 2.0 makes accessible the collective intelligence of many, translating to a huge competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation, productivity and agility.
Enterprise 1.0 | Enterprise 2.0 |
| Hierarchy | Flat Organization |
| Friction | Ease of Organization Flow |
| Bureaucracy | Agility |
| Inflexibility | Flexibility |
| IT-driven technology / Lack of user control | User-driven technology |
| Top down | Bottom up |
| Centralized | Distributed |
| Teams are in one building / one time zone | Teams are global |
| Silos and boundaries | Fuzzy boundaries, open borders |
| Need to know | Transparency |
| Information systems are structured and dictated | Information systems are emergent |
| Taxonomies | Folksonomies |
| Overly complex | Simple |
| Closed/ proprietary standards | Open |
| Scheduled | On Demand |
| Long time-to-market cycles | Short time-to-market cycles |
Enterprise 2.0 Conference takes a strategic perspective, emphasizing the bigger picture implications of the technology and the exploration of what is at stake for organizations trying to change not only tools, but also culture and process.
Beyond discussion of the "why", there will also be in-depth opportunities for learning the "how" that will help you bring Enterprise 2.0 to your business.
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference Advisory Board is comprised of leading experts in the fields of technology for business, collaboration, culture change and collective intelligence.
