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Andrew McAfee & Enterprise 2.0 conference

By | November 4, 2009, 10:59pm PST

Summary: A very busy week in San Francisco at the inaugural West coast Enterprise 2.0 conference, which has proved very successful so far. I’ll write a longer post after the conclusion Thursday, but for now here’s a brief video discussion between myself and Andrew McAfee about his new book, ‘Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s [...]

A very busy week in San Francisco at the inaugural West coast Enterprise 2.0 conference, which has proved very successful so far.

I’ll write a longer post after the conclusion Thursday, but for now here’s a brief video discussion between myself and Andrew McAfee about his new book, ‘Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges which is finally available, and the conference.

We discuss the strengths of the event - the evangelists and middle ranking employee success stories - but also note the need for impressing on senior ‘C’ suite decision makers in organizations the business value of these modern ideas and associated technologies.

My track with Sameer Patel this week ‘Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies‘ is intended to assist employees with making the internal case for budget and resources to roll out collaboration initiatives, and has been well received.

It’s going to be interesting to see how this fast moving space has changed and hopefully grown by the time the June 2010 event in Boston is held…

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Oliver Marks provides seasoned independent consulting guidance through the Sovos Group to companies on the effective planning of 'Enterprise 2.0' strategy, tactics, technology decisions and roll out.

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Oliver Marks professional work is defined by an objective viewpoint of the broad spectrum of vendors and options available to his clients and readers of this blog. Oliver provides an impartial perspective of vendors and is focused on contractual affiliation with clients in order to select appropriate solutions. As such he has no business relationships with the companies or services he recommends. Oliver is a founding partner of The Sovos Group. The opinions, concepts and views put forward in this blog are solely those of Oliver Marks.

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Oliver Marks

Oliver Marks is a founding partner at SovosGroup.com which provides seasoned independent consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of 'Enterprise 2.0' strategy, tactics, technology decisions and roll out.

With extensive senior management practical experience in international enterprise collaboration, Oliver previously managed the Sony PlayStation 'WorldWide Studios' collaboration extranet, and has worked with the American Management Association, Sun, Docent/SumTotal Systems, Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company on major initiatives around knowledge transfer and change management.

Oliver has dual US/UK citizenship and has worked on Asian, European and American global enterprise collaboration, and spoken at various conferences. He is based in San Francisco.

His personal blog is at www.olivermarks.com.

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