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Dion Hinchcliffe

Dion Hinchcliffe
Dion Hinchcliffe is an expert in information technology, business strategy, and next-generation enterprises. He is currently Executive Vice President of Strategy at Dachis Group. A veteran of enterprise IT, Dion has been working for two decades with leading-edge methods to bridge the widening gap between business and technology. He has extensive practical experience with enterprise technologies and he consults, advises, and writes prolifically on social business, IT, and enterprise architecture. Dion still works in the trenches with clients in the Fortune 1000, government, and Internet startup community. He is also a sought-after keynote speaker and is co-author of several books on 2.0 subjects including Web 2.0 Architectures from O'Reilly as well as the upcoming Social Business By Design (due Spring, 2012.)

About Enterprise Web 2.0

Dion Hinchcliffe on leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web.
  • Enterprise 2.0 success: BASF

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 15, 2012, 11:57am PST

    Industrial giant BASF wanted to bring its employees together and drive better business performance, but needed to ensure it was heading in the right direction and that uptake would ultimately...

  • Social business success: Burberry

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 6, 2012, 4:54am PST

    In their social business effort, the luxury goods designer was clearly thinking big: A true digital company must use digital channels through and through for all interaction.

  • Social business success: CEMEX

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | February 1, 2012, 5:06am PST

    Can an entrenched and highly traditional business culture handle a rapid adoption of internal social media? CEMEX, a $13.5 billion building materials supplier, shows how it’s done.

  • Enterprise 2.0 Success: Alcatel-Lucent

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | January 31, 2012, 4:30am PST

    The 80,000-worker telecommunications giant began adopting social media inside the organization as far back as 2008. But Alcatel isn’t stopping at basic social collaboration.

  • Realizing social business: Enterprise 2.0 success stories

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | January 30, 2012, 6:41am PST

    Social business is proving to be a strategic win inside the enterprise firewall. Dion Hinchcliffe highlights some success stories from the trenches.

  • Consumerization in 2012: Cloud and mobile blurs into other people's IT

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | January 24, 2012, 3:19pm PST

    We are not far from a tipping point in IT where the majority of business solutions come from workers and the lines of business via the cloud and newer mobile platforms. While this is a sea change...

  • Social business and enterprise usage: The lessons

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | December 16, 2011, 1:47pm PST

    The data keeps coming in: The sale of social business software continues to rise and is forecast to continue rising for years. But does that translate into adoption? New data shows that while...

  • Ten strategies for making the "Big Leap" to next-gen mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | October 16, 2011, 4:47pm PDT

    The “Big Five” IT trends are in the midst of making their impact felt in organizations around the world. Is this is a significant chance for IT to drive innovation and business agility...

  • The "Big Five" IT trends of the next half decade: Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | October 2, 2011, 5:34pm PDT

    In today’s ever more technology-centric world, the stodgy IT department isn’t considered the home of innovation and business leadership. Yet that might have to change as some of the...

  • Measuring community health: Achieving balanced social media growth

    By Dion Hinchcliffe | September 28, 2011, 10:40am PDT

    Creating successful online communities is still more art than science, yet techniques and frameworks are now emerging to turn social business into a real discipline. This week we take a look at a...

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