Accelerating Business Performance via Enterprise 2.0

 Why

Notwithstanding the incredible interest in and attention to Enterprise 2.0, many enterprises still struggle with understanding the tangible benefit that collaborative and participatory approaches can bring to their business.

Before even thinking about launching an Enterprise 2.0 initiative, a number of foundational topics need to be addressed including easy to understand measures of performance in the context of increased revenue and reduced cost, new competencies involved and the impact of these emerging way of working on existing, time tested processes. Then, to smoothly run a programme, clear execution models have to be defined to mitigate business, programmatic, and operational risk from new investments.

This workshop is tightly focused on understanding and articulating the value of enterprise 2.0, selling business value, and identifying use cases inside your business. The program offers an abundance of high level debate, first hand selling insight and information about adoption issues and maturation time lines of Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

 

Who should attend

This seminar/workshop should be of value to business executives and CIOs trying to understand how social computing can help their organizations achieve their performance goals, but also to other managers formally responsible of Enterprise 2.0 projects or enterprise collaboration programs that need to align their (often multiple) initiatives with goals and objectives that departmental and Line-Of-Business executives consider important.

Participants might have the following roles:

  • Chief Executive Officers
  • Chief Information Officers
  • Chief Operating Officers
  • Heads of R&D
  • Product & Service Development
  • Marketing and Customer Engagement
  • Heads of Human Resources
  • Senior Project Managers
     

What are the benefits

  • Understand how Enterprise 2.0 approaches and technology can accelerate business performance in the context of employee, partner and customer networks
  • Understand how these new models of thinking and functionality fit within the existing enterprise technology footprint and processes
  • Learn how process and social tools should coexist to drive incremental business value
  • Understand what it takes to get seasoned managers to buy into and sponsor pilots and test programs

What does it cost?

The course fee is Euro 600 + VAT
 

1/2-Day Programme Content

Some of fundamental questions that will be addressed during the workshop, below:

Objectives

  • Transition from pontification to real world, objective discussions around business value
  • Preparing for the basics and blind spots as you prepare to get you project approved
  • Mitigating risk and designing for success upfront
  • Execution and follow through
  • Learn what it takes to successfully launch

Topics: From Inception to Launch

  • The Big Idea
  • Designing the Pitch:
    • Aligning the promise of Enterprise 2.0 approaches and technology with business challenges and opportunities
    • How social concepts can accelerate discrete process performance and leverage existing programs and investments
    • How to get those that run critical functions in the enterprise (Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Product Management) to understand the strategic value of social computing towards improving their odds of success
  • Getting executives on board
  • Critical elements of a comprehensive execution plan
  • Designing for Scale
  • Meaningful Pilots
  • Winning elements of a launch plan
     

Workshop Leader

Sameer Patel, Founding Partner at Sovos Group and Advisory Board Member / Co-Chair: E2.0 Strategy and Planning Track at Enterprise 2.0 Conference

Sameer is a founding partner at the Sovos Group – a consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate employee, customer and partner performance via the strategic use of social and collaborative approaches and technology.

He has spent a decade managing engagements for large organizations helping them define and execute sustainable programs that drive lead generation, business partner network optimization, sales and marketing operational effectiveness, customer acquisition and employee productivity.

Sameer also serve on the Enterprise 2.0 Advisory Board and co-chair the Enterprise 2.0 Strategy and Execution Tracks at the Annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference.

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