Strategy, Planning and Execution

Creating an award-winning online community that provides continual member engagement can be an extremely challenging endeavor.  Join Dawn Lacallade, community manager at SolarWinds, to discuss the secrets of planning and execution to grow an online community from a few members to thousands in less than five years.

Enterprise 2.0-style collaboration and communication, especially in the Cloud, raises myriad privacy, security, and compliance issues.  Current and proposed privacy frameworks (including the bill introduced earlier this year by Congressman Boucher) will be examined, generally and in view of the specific demands and features of an Enterprise 2.0 environment.

In the past, decision makers were almost always forced to make choices that were based on incomplete information.   Moreover one thing leaders can’t do, no matter how intelligent or experienced, is create a list of things that are unknown to him.  Yet the emerging field of predictive analytics and crowdsourcing are proving useful to leaders by simulating and forecasting event outcomes.   The findings from these scenarios will be discussed as well as the outcomes.  Learn how these bleeding edge companies are leveraging analytics and Enterprise 2.0 solutions to stay one step ahead of the competition.  

Understanding how Enterprise 2.0 technologies impact overall corporate business processes has never been more critical.  Companies that understand how Enterprise 2.0 and Cloud computing technologies can influence business processes for value creation will gain a significant competitive advantage. Through research and our client interactions, we have identified key advantages companies can gain by blending traditional business processes with ‘social business processes’.  Both business and IT executives need to understand this new paradigm and what is involved in transforming a company to maximize benefits from Enterprise 2.0 and Cloud computing technologies. 

Social software within the enterprise will hit a dead end unless usage is linked to measurable business performance improvements.  Through case study examples, this session will demonstrate why a focus on improving key operating metrics is critical to driving the sustained use of social software and achieving desired business benefits.  This session will also examine current implementation strategies and recommend a framework to implement social software successfully.

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