Exploring Enterprise 2.0: The Rise of Social Media Platforms in the Workplace

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Are you gearing up to implement the new wave of Enterprise 2.0 apps in an effective, productive, and non-disruptive way within your organization? This event will help business and IT leaders gain a solid understanding Enterprise 2.0 and how to embrace it non-disruptively in their organization.

Enterprise 2.0 represents the next wave of freeform, emergent, social Web apps that can bring the power and effectiveness of Web 2.0 techniques to life inside your organization. Just when IT is being held increasingly accountable for business-focused results, Enterprise 2.0 can give IT the potent new tools for end-users to apply general-purpose collaborative tools in innovative new ways to solve both long-term and just-in-time business problems more cost-effectively.

Technologies such as blogs and wikis are just the beginning of the story however. Enterprise 2.0 has the potential to unleash the power of network effects, mass participation, and emergent business solutions. The resulting capture of organizational knowledge in a more public, discoverable fashion via enterprise search enabled by the link structure of Enterprise 2.0 Web apps is just one of several potentially beneficial outcomes. IT departments can then become the enabler of these emergent solutions by allowing controlled access and reuse of existing IT resources and platforms.

Being successful with Enterprise 2.0 requires a clear understanding of the critical success factors. Because, as rewarding as Enterprise 2.0 has the potential to be, technical and organizational challenges exist in accessing its potential. For example, adopters of Enterprise 2.0 techniques must define internal Enterprise 2.0 standards, oversee compliance to industry and governmental regulations, protect the privacy of participants, and secure the organization's information while successfully encouraging workers to move to these new tools.

Ultimately, the core challenge for an Enterprise 2.0 initiative is to transform the culture of their organization to use fewer private software tools, openly sharing more business information, and be knowledgeable about and effective in consuming worker-generated content , all the while maintaining minimal disruption to business activities.

You will leave Exploring Enterprise 2.0 with the knowledge and skills you need to begin an Enterprise 2.0 initiative within your organization. Exploring Enterprise 2.0 is taught by industry experts extensively experienced with corporate IT and closely involved with Enterprise 2.0 efforts. You will be shown how successful Enterprise 2.0 projects can be structured and executed using case studies, emerging best practices, collaborative group exercises, and involved attendee interaction. Real-world experiences, lessons learned, and solutions are presented throughout.

Exploring Enterprise 2.0 Topics:

- How to develop and implement a successful Enterprise 2.0 initiative - Understanding the basic elements of Enterprise 2.0: the SLATES approach - Strategies for educating and changing worker behavior patterns: Lessons from the Web - Fundamental management concepts and methodologies of effective collaboration - Developing a grassroots culture of contribution and participation - Case studies in freeform, emergent, social applications in the enterprise - Measuring Enterprise 2.0 productivity- how to measure the effectiveness of your E2.0 strategy and see where you need to improve - Addressing the enterprise perspective: standards, security, privacy, compliance, regulations - Survey and overview of emerging Enterprise 2.0 products - Managing politics, people, and finance for an effective Enterprise 2.0 strategy - Overcoming the challenges of a fundamental shift in IT perspective

Who Should Attend: - Individuals whose job responsibility involves collaboration with other individuals, teams, and organizations - Executives and managers in business and IT with responsibility for designing, implementing, and operating IT systems and business processes within their organization - IT staffers and general line of business workers that are seeking to apply the latest IT and business best practices directly to their daily work CIOs and CTOs that are seeking to be more effective in their positions - Enterprise architects that wish to leverage their IT resources and support their internal customers more effectively - Business planners and strategists that are seeking to optimize their organizations for maximum efficiency and business-focused results