Our Social Business Summit on March 18 is starting to come together nicely, with some great participants and sponsors joining up to make it a great day. With only 100 places available in total, I would urge you to sign up sooner rather than later. Also, if you are in the USA or Australia, there is still time to sign up for those summits too.
On March 18, SOMESSO and Headshift/Dachis Group will host Europe’s first Social Business Summit; an invitation-only event in the city of London, which is aimed at business and technology thought leaders interested in the future of social business design.
Last week, I gave a talk in Frankfurt at the impressive E20 Summit about leadership in devolved organisations. My starting point was the myth that leadership is somehow less important in new, networked organisations. Not so. If anything, it is more important than ever, but the focus and practice of leadership is changing; and if we are to engage leaders and involve them in the development of social business structures, then we need to be able to understand and address their challenges and issues using language that resonates with them.
The Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco event ended last week, handing over the baton to Europe for the E2.0 Summit in Frankfurt, which starts today. It looks like Kongress media have put together a good lineup and a very practical agenda, so I am looking forward to some intelligent discussions about the practice of enterprise social computing in Europe, rather than the kind of navel gazing, ideological debates that seemed to dominate in San Francisco.
This post by Lee Bryant originally appeared on the Headshift blog, and contains Lee’s talk at SOMESSO on Social Business Design for the Finance sector. Lee discusses workforce collaboration, customer participation, and service innovation in the finance industry, as well as the importance of measurable outcomes and connecting to business goals and objectives.
This is a post from Lee Bryant that was originally posted on the Headshift blog. He was invited to give a presentation at the Amsterdam Social Strategy Talk, hosted by Creative Crowds and ViNT. Lee and Tom Steinberg (mySociety) were the closing speakers, talking about the issue of public participation and open data in relation to government innovation. The talk was a very simple introduction to why this topic matters, plus a consideration of some recent critiques of transparency initiatives, decorated by a lovely data visualisation of world population growth from the G-Econ project.
There has been a lot of debate about the terminology surrounding social computing, social software, Enterprise 2.0 and Social business design, as Peter Kim talked about here recently.
For me, the key issue is whether or not you believe software alone is sufficient to engineer fundamental business change. In some cases, perhaps it can; but in [...]
Lee Bryant is the Managing Director for Europe, and is the co-founder of Headshift which is part of the Dachis Group.