Social Networking—Create an Opportunity for People to Learn from Each Other
Session description: Social networking in the enterprise? Social networking creates opportunities for connections between people and groups—challenging each of us to grow our network and learn from each other. A social networking strategy must start with defining collaboration outcomes and leadership engagements. The technology is the easy part. In this session, Accenture will share how social networking approaches have been integrated into their learning programs (training, knowledge sharing) to create opportunities for Accenture’s people to build their capability by learning from each other.
In this session, you will learn:
- the drivers for focusing on social networking
- the value of social networking in enabling your people to learn from each other (social learning) in the enterprise
- the key building blocks to a successful social networking program
Presenter: Tom Barfield is the Director of Knowledge Management for Accenture. Tom has lead initiatives to build the learning and knowledge sharing culture at Accenture including the development and implementation of Accenture’s collaboration strategy.
Challenges of Rolling Out OD Initiatives Globally
Session description: Global multinational firms struggle with rolling out OD initiatives across multiple geographies. Despite innovative IT solutions to connect the globe, roll out initiatives and efficient systems to support, many attempts end up with lackluster results. Cultural differences are generally regarded as the culprit. However, our research and findings have linked the lack of success to several major factors including culture plus, competency and skills gaps, process gaps, communications gaps, cognitive and emotive traps, technological traps, and efficiency traps.
In this session, you will learn:
- the critical pathway to success in rolling out global OD initiatives
- how to identify and address the gaps, traps, and maps of implementing OD initiatives
Presenter: Samuel M. Lam is President and Managing Partner of Linkage Asia. He has led major OD and LD initiatives for both global multinational firms and Asian conglomerates in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, and Indonesia.
Enterprise 2.0—Creating new Connections and Collaboration Channels
Session description: Tweets, texts, friend requests, “followers”, link requests, and blog comments are not just for Gen Y-ers, niche marketers, and social media-savvy techies. Social networking tools are and increasingly will be reshaping the ways we work within organizations. Emerging empirical data demonstrates the power of these tools in team building and support of organizational strategy and change initiatives. This session will explore the latest trends in social networking and collaboration tools. Find out how top social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are morphing into internal Business Social Software tools.
Presenters will share case studies demonstrating how large global enterprises
are leveraging these tools to reach out and make connections, break down corporate silos, and enable employees to share their expertise. Resource links and references will be provided for participants to further explore the concepts presented.
In this session, you will learn:
- success factors for use of Collaboration software
- how to care for weak ties and leverage corporate organizational innovations
- how Social Software tools enable a global team to be “connected colleagues”
- current research findings on use of Enterprise-based Business Social Software tools
Presenters: Jennifer Janik is the Enterprise Community Manager for Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Laboratories CTO.
Jerilyn Wagner, SPHR, is a Senior Learning Consultant for Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel-Lucent University.
Understanding LinkedIn as an Organizational Development Tool*
Session description: Businesses have never had access to more technology that can impact productivity at zero cost. The challenge is evaluating these offerings, determining how to deploy them, and how they can be used to complete stated OD initiatives. LinkedIn is arguably the most misunderstood yet powerful tool available for enhancing the organization of today. By reframing this as an enterprise solution, organizations can use it to stimulate organizational alignment and strategic advantage, engage employees, improve productivity and innovation, enhance the cultural climate and communication, and assist leaders in building high performance organizations.
In this session, you will learn how to:
- understand LinkedIn as a personal and organizational business tool
- effectively leverage LinkedIn to complete OD initiatives
- implement best practices to benefit both your organizational and personal profiles
Presenter: Dave Gowel is the Founder and President of Clearly Creative. He presents at international conferences, top-tier business schools, and for companies of all sizes on using LinkedIn for business purposes. Dave is a West Point graduate and Assistant Professor at MIT.
* Participants will be required to bring fully charged computers with wireless
access with them for this presentation.