Two months left before the enterprise 2.0 Summit

December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Every year, at this period, I usually write a debrief of the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Frankfurt. No such thing this year since the Summit did not take place in Frankfurt in november but will in Paris on the 8th and 9th of february.There are many reasons why I highly suggest you to attend this conference.

1°) Because it’s an european event

Cases and experiences are often shared nationwide. French ones in France, German ones in Germany etc… This event is a unique occasion to compare and benchmark things from all over Europe with, for example AXA, BASF, Lufthansa, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, Danone, IBM, Alcatel-Lucent, Lyonnaise des Eaux, Allianz, Saint-Gobain, Bayer, JC Decaux…and many others.

 

2°) Because of top level speakers

A look at the speakers list will be enough. Many VPS, directors…that will speak about the strategic dimension of projects that are deeper than giving their information system a facelift. As for experts that will also be speaking, I think their names are very familiar to you. The focus will be on strategic projects, value creation…what leads to the next point.

 

3°) Because the nature of the discussion is dramatically shifting

As we can see, the point is not about knowing how to bring social media in the workplace anymore. At least, not for most speakers. The real question is about designing a new model for the enterprise to face today’s challenges, how to create value in a complex and unpredictable context, what do organizational experience means in 2012. The agenda perferfectly reflects this…

4°) Because of the Keynotes

In addition to talks and discussions on cases and best practices, a conference should also bring something more in term of vision and sense. Something that will shape the business for the next years. So you may like to see :

 

- Rawn Shah,  social business transformation expert at IBM (also author of  social networking for business) and Yves Caseau (Vice President Bouygues Telecom, author of  Processus et enteprise 2.0) discussing about social and community approaches and how it will impact processes and new excellence models.

- Richard Collin (Grenoble Business School- Nextmodernity) ans Jean-Christophe Kugler (Renault) discussing the new organizational models as well as the future of processes and workflows

- Dion Hinchcliffe will be talking about the evolution of business models and key success factors for organizational excellence.

 

5°) Because of the format

No one way speech here. Each session includes a discussion with other practionners, experts and the audience. So the audience has time to ask questions and challenge the speakers. The conference is organized so that speakers and audience have time to exchange and debate and the time allowed for discussions is quite the same as for speeches.

That’s all… for more information, please visit the ‘Enterprise 2.0 Summit here.

The registration page is here...and people who register before december 17th will get a 800€ discount.

See you there !

 

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Webcom 2009 : My schedule

May 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

As promised, this is the schedule of the speeches I’ll attend tomorrow. We shared the work out with the other bloggers.

We will all cover the plenary keynotes, and I’ll focus more particularly on :

• 8h50 : Case Study : Who do you think we are? Opening our information architecture to the outside world.Maybe you’ll wonder what’s in it for me. My purpose will be to rely on this case in order to understand if it can apply to an internal problematic and to what extent employees can be involved in the design of the corporate information system.

• 10h00 : The New Normal: the Web as a High-Performance Tool in a Shifting Economy. You can guess why I will attend just by reading the summary. At the same time, I would have liked to hear Caroline Allard speaking about Corporate Indentity through Social Networks for obvious reasons. It doesn’t matter since Caroline promised me an individual interview, what will make it simplier for me to have her insights on more specific issues.

• 10h40 : Real intranet tools to boost communication & innovation in the enterprise.  No need to explain….

• 11h20 : Open Innovation – the fuel for growth and change. Essential, isn’t it ? It’s been such a long time I’ve been looking at what Innocentive is doing…

• 14h10 : Knowledge, skills, and information-sharing: balancing new technology and human potential to add value to your organisation

• 14h50 : Panel: Data Portability does this means something for YOU ! ? My purpose here is to get the essential basics in order, afterwards, to widen it to internal corporate issues and, later again to think about data portability between personal and business platforms. People are more and more torn between many platforms to the same things in different contexts although they are only one unique person. I don’t think this unproductive situation will be able to last a long time at the current pace.

So, see you tomorrow on twitter, starting at 8h00. I think I’ll make live coverage, trying to add a thought here and there. I’ll try to mix french and english in order to please all my followers. Afterwards I’ll try to provide you with more deeper analysis. It may take a little time since my days are unfortunately only 24hrs long ;-) and I want to take the most from my vacation week in Montreal and see all my friends here.

Humm…. and don’t limit yourself to me. On twitter (and elsewhere) the official tag will be… webcom2009

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Webcom is next wednesday

May 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

After having been a speaking last year, I’ll be attending Webcom Montreal as “official blogger”. This year again the schedule is very promising.

I’ve almost decided what speeches I’m going to listen (some choices have still to be made because some of them will occur at the same time).

Since I’ve never liked live blogging (no need to write deep analysis, lack of hindsight), I think I will :

• Make a live coverage on twitter (make sure you’re follwing me at  http://www.twitter.com/bduperrin if not done already).

• In the following days and weeks, deeper analysis of things that grab my attention.

• Maybe some interviews of….whom I want

I’ll try to publish my own schedule on tuesday evening in order you know when you need to follow me…or not.

By the way, which speeches would you attend if you were there ? Which of them are right into you concerns ? Maybe your inputs will help me to make my choices…

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Welcome to the Enterprise 2.0 Summit

February 21, 2009 By 1 Comment

To be honnest I was very sad that we didn’t have major events about enterprise 2.0 in Europe. We have events about web 2.0, there is the LeWeb conference that goes beyond technology and attract the swells of the world, but nothing strictly about enterprise.

That’s why I’m glad to announce the hold of the enterprise 2.0 summit in Frankfurt on the 7-8 of october. I recently talked wih the organizators and I can tell you the event will focus on results. As I wrote recently, the time is not anymore to visionnary speeches but to those who will seize the real issues, will be able to explain the impact on corporate mechanisms and will be able to say in concrete words”how to do to it”. So the focus will be on case studies and people who achieved successful implementations.

You can register now. Many people often complain about the rates of such event and the early birds rates (registration before the end of march) are very affordable. Sure it will be the place to be in 2009 for european CxOs.

I hope I’ll see you there.

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Network or proximity ? Where’s the value for businesses ?

October 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008Social networks seem to be used to fit nearly any case, regardless to the fact their value come from the context. As an example, my newtorks on facebook and linkedin have nothing in common, links are built upon different criterias, in different contexts. Knowing than Mr. so-and-so is one of my contacts on one or the oher may help to understand the nature of our relationships. But in each case there’s a commonb point : one asked the other to validate we were contacts and the other agreed according to his own criterias. Materializing this relation built a link.

But the link can be created differently. Not only according to relations but objects.  Dopplr uses travels as objects. Lastfm songs. FlickR pictures as I mentioned here. What creates the link is not the fact people know each others but an object

Not let’s imagine we’re in an enterprise context.

What’s the personal link related network within an enterprise ? People start by adding the ones they work with every day. Then they accept their superiors because refusing would be diplomatically hard. Then, followin the same logic, they link their subordinates. Then across the organization because we use to have coffee breaks together or use the same bus lie. Whatever : the only fact we have the same employer is enough to link one another. So we may have two kinds of result : either people reproduce the organization chart or eveyone is linked to every other. I do not use the “friend” or “relationship” in purpose.

What the interest for the employees ? None : the corporate directory would give him the same result. For the company ? None too : organizations know their orghanization chart and their employees directory (although….). Whatever. The general public web model does not operate in a corporate context.

So, what’s the solution ?

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When channels and platforms will merge : new way to communicate in the workspace

October 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008When we talk about connected enterprises and interconnected and interdepent employees, it’s hard for many people to imagine this kind of reality, to visualize what it may look like in their day to day job.

That’s not a suprise. Just try to think like anybody who’s been using for at least ten years three communication modes : face to face meetings, phone and email. This person may not know any other way to communicate, even in his private life. Then try to feel what they feel when they hear about permanent interconnection, mobility, information as flows, personal informational supply chain. It’s in some way like explaining Graham Bell what the iPhone is. Add to that that this person may only know one way to communicate : one person decides to communicate something to another which is forced to receive it. In brief a world with only three kind of channels where we have to choice between seeking someone or being seeked by someone.

In order to understand the whole field of what’s possible in this area, it’s important to know how our desktop will look like in the upcoming times. By “desktop” I mean our computer’s one, indeed our mobile devices’

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