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REMINDER: How to get your people talking… Free on-demand event!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
Don’t forget to check out our FREE MWD Insights collaboration event – How to get your people talking: the secrets of successful collaboration and Enterprise 2.0.
The event, which is available on-demand so you can view it as and when it’s convenient, includes a keynote presentation by me, accompanied by two case study interviews with organisations who are successfully using online community solutions to support their internal collaboration efforts.
Just to give you a taster of what to expect, here are some of the key messages from my keynote presentation:
- Organisations are increasingly recognising the potential of developing a more collaborative culture to enable them to improve knowledge sharing, differentiate their business more effectively, and support a more distributed and mobile workforce. The drivers for this are many, including economic pressures and an increasingly competitive business landscape.
- By leveraging a combination of social, content, and people-centric tools, online communities solutions enable organisations to facilitate communication and collaboration among employees, identifying experts, and capturing knowledge about business processes and practices all within the context of people’s daily activities.
- Online communities will not thrive by themselves; you need to plan and support them carefully to ensure that you maximise adoption levels – and ultimately your return on investment. The key is to start small and choose a clearly defined purpose for your community.
The British American Tobacco case study (which interviews Knowledge, Communication and Collaboration Consultant, Richard Hare) highlights the company’s long journey to improved collaboration, and how it has developed its approach over a number of years, culminating in a successful home-built online communities platform which sits within the corporate intranet.
The Swiss Re interview (with Senior Communications Consultant, Anu Elmer) explains about the company’s carefully planned, combined top-down and bottom-up strategy for driving adoption of its online communities platform, which was driven by a team which included IT, Communications and HR departments in a truly enterprise-wide strategy for enhanced collaboration.
I hope you are able to find some time to listen to/view these, they are free to access – all you need to do is register for a Guest Pass id if you don’t already have one, then click here to access the event. Please do let us know what you think, whether you have comments about the content or the event format – feedback (both positive and negative) is always welcome, and will help us improve these events going forward.
Enjoy!
Posted in Collaboration