Headed to Toronto to speak at WebCom Toronto this week. From the site: On November 3rd, immerse yourself in the world of new Web trends, technologies and strategies and gauge their full potential for your enterprise. Learn about key collaboration strategies and techniques, wikis, real-time Web with Yammer, Internet/Intranet communities and professional social networks. All […]
A few weeks ago I did a video cast hosted by IBM on the “Social Workplace”. We talked about what tomorrows workplace will look like, discussed what is a red hot issue these days – preparing for millennials and their expectations for the workplace, and finally, the challenges and the opportunities for HR and performance acceleration in the […]
IBM has recently completed a study on the Social Workplace, based on conversations with over 700 Chief Human Resource Officers worldwide. The study is focused on the following: Cultivating creative leaders — who can more nimbly lead in complex, global environments Mobilizing for greater speed and flexibility — producing significantly greater capability to adjust underlying […]
I stumbled upon this insightful blog post by SAP CIO Oliver Bussmann about how SAP realizes value from its own SAP HANA (High-Performance Analytic Appliance). HANA is powered by in-memory computing – a way to store and process data in the main memory as opposed to disk storage . For a primer on In Memory, […]
Next week, The Future of Talent Institute will be hosting its monthly webinar on talent performance. The good folks at the institute were kind enough to ask me to speak about why HR should care about Enterprise 2.0. I’m going to keep it pretty high level – talk about where we’ve been as organizations over […]
Ever since I started blogging about the work we do around collaboration and strategic use of enterprise social software, I’ve long advocated for purpose built, in context use of social constructs to make a meaningful impact on business performance. One one hand, Enterprise 2.0 – the value proposition and enabling software began its journey as […]
From the ReadWriteWeb article by Sarah Perez: “Kevin Thau, Twitter’s VP for business and corporate development, announced during a presentation at Nokia World 2010 today that everyone’s favorite micro-blogging network is not actually a social network. It’s not, you say? No, says Thau: Twitter is for news. Twitter is for content. Twitter is for information.“ […]