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Get your people talking: the secrets of successful collaboration and Enterprise 2.0
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 by Beth Barling
Today MWD launched a new free online event targeted at senior business and IT decision makers within enterprises with roles to play in driving collaboration and knowledge management improvements. The event – How to get your people talking: the secrets of successful collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 – includes a keynote presentation by MWD’s collaboration expert and Principal Analyst, Angela Ashenden, and two in-depth case study interviews with organisations who have already invested in online community initiatives and are enjoying the returns. Many thanks to British American Tobacco and Swiss Re for sharing their stories with us and you.
The event is available on-demand, so you can access the audio and presentations at any time to suit you, and dip back in whenever you like.
But why should you invest the time? With the rising influence of social media on the web and its gradual cross-over into the business world, the concept of online communities is gaining traction both as an aid to internal knowledge sharing and improved collaboration. Our case study research shows that there are many benefits to be had, but it’s also clear that deploying and managing this kind of initiative takes time and effort and requires the strong backing of senior management and buy-in from the employees who will use it – getting it wrong could mean money down the drain and hours of time and effort wasted.
So if you’re ready to take a step forward with social media tools within your own organisation then the information and advice you’ll harvest from this event will be critical.
Through this online event you will learn:
– Why organisations are looking to online communities to support their internal collaboration and knowledge sharing initiatives, and why previous efforts to achieve this have failed.
– What an internal community looks like, how it can benefit your organisation, and how this software differs from team workspace solutions.
– Best practices for implementing online communities within an organisation, based on the experience of early adopters.
Then go on to learn from the experiences of pioneers in this area, including:
– British American Tobacco – Richard Hare, Knowledge, Communication and Collaboration Consultant, talks about BAT’s long journey to achieving improved knowledge sharing, using a people-centric approach to building communities of practice.
– Swiss Re – Anu Elmer, Senior Communications Consultant at Swiss Re, talks about its “Ourspace” online communities platform which the company rolled out enterprise-wide, and the value of a combined top-down and bottom-up adoption strategy.
The event website also provides a range of complementary resources from MWD’s library designed to help you with your own journey into online communities, whether you are in the early stages of education and planning, or whether you are about to embark on technology selection and deployment, or want to learn from enterprise best practices and streamline an existing initiative.
We’d love to know what you think of the event and what you’re doing yourself in this area. We’d like to give you an additional incentive to let us know – listen to the event and then leave us feedback via the event page (click on the ‘feedback’ tab) and you’ll benefit from a further 10% discount on our premium research.
This event is provided free of charge. All we ask for is your time and that you register for a free MWD Guest Pass account which will give you access to a wealth of other online events and resources which you can browse at your leisure.
We hope you enjoy the event. Do let us know what you think.
Posted in Collaboration, General, MWD