The management model in most organizations is out of step with our times. The model of the past is a hierarchical structure, with a bureaucracy that runs on conformity, control, standardization, and specialization. It was designed for large organizations to be efficient at scale, not to address the ways humans work best.

Come to this session armed with your questions. You’ll be able to submit questions directly to our panelists for a live Q&A session during the hour.

Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Time: 10:00 AM (PST) / 1:00 PM (EST) Duration: 60 minutes

Presenters:

Gary Hamel
Gary Hamel has identified the practices and ideas that are reinventing leading corporations in this new model, inspired and enabled by social technology. The Wall Street Journal has ranked Professor Hamel (London Business School) as the world’s most influential business thinker. Fortune has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.” He is co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange and a best-selling author

Paige Finkelman
As General Manager of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference and the BrainYard.com, Paige is responsible for business strategy, brand direction, and content programs. Her experience includes roles in business development, product management, event production and sales. Paige holds a Law degree from the University of Manchester in England.

Milind Pansare
Milind Pansare is senior director for Social and Collaboration software at Saba. He has over 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley, and has led product marketing, product management, partner programs and large engineering teams at silicon valley startups and larger silicon valley companies like Sun Microsystems and HP. He has also served as an advisor to startups at a prominent silicon valley startup incubator. He holds a degree in Computer Science.

Today’s social media technologies offer an alternative. It is now possible for organizations to be:

• Large but not bureaucratic
• Focused but not myopic
• Specialized but not balkanized
• Efficient but not inflexible
• Disciplined but not disempowering
• Fit for the future and for human beings

From a practical standpoint, organizations use the Internet’s DNA—its values of transparency, collaboration, meritocracy, and self-determination—to fundamentally transform management. Join the conversation as Gary Hamel shares insights in this free, interactive webcast on April 18.

You’ll walk away with the principles and tools of the Web that will make your company more adaptive, innovative, inspiring—and fit to embrace the opportunities of a fast-approaching future. After the event, you will receive a webcast report and regular updates on the best new ideas in management innovation from the Management Innovation eXchange.

Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara kicked off today with pre-conference workshops, where attendees filled up rooms to get their social business education on. As I walked through the convention center, I saw a lot of old friends, colleagues, as well as first time attendees who were in awe of all the great content Paige Finkelman put together for the event.  As usual, the twitter feed was active with great pieces of information that attendees were getting from the workshops.  (Reminder the official hashtag is #e2conf)

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Working in the enterprise has changed dramatically over the past 5 years.  The cubicle walls are being torn down as organizations are now leaning towards more open space environments. See picture.

The enterprise is not only tearing down the physical walls, but the communication walls as well. In the past messages always came from the top and then filtered down to the rest of the organization.  

Employees were “told” about how the latest strategic company initiative would make the company grow and their job easier from executives that often times failed to ask for feedback or ideas from their team. This is a clear example of one way communication – a very enterprise 1.0 way of getting work done.  

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Let me repeat that question one more time. Are YOU ready for Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara? If not, then you better start getting reading, because the leading social business event is just under 3 weeks away. Yeah! 3 weeks! Needless to say but things are picking up here in the SF office. There is an energy that has been growing exponentially the past few weeks.  People have an extra pep in their moxie and some folks have been seen literally skipping to meetings as though there was a hopscotch course in front of them. Hey if Paige Finkelman wants to skip around the office, then more power to her. I’m not going to stop her.

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Hey everyone. Jason Quesada here, Digital Media Marketing Manager for Enterprise 2.0. Did you know that we are just 4 weeks away from Enterprise 2.0 Santa Clara? All of the cool and latest social business technology tools will be displayed on the Enterprise 2.0 expo floor. It’s going to be buzzing I tell ya! Buzzing!

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A blog post by Tod Pedler, Founder & CEO of MobileNationHQ

We’re all accessing the Internet using our mobile devices at an unprecedented rate. Consider the following for a moment. There are 1.5 billion televisions worldwide, 1.4 billion people access the Internet using their PC, and 480 million newspapers are still printed daily around the world. But there are 4 billion mobile phones on the planet. That’s half the world’s population.

Mobile phone technology for the masses has been with us for more than 15 years, but smart phone technology has only been with us for the last 5 years. And now the tablet device is a new mobile form factor that is quickly transforming the way we consume media, both print and video. Like the desktop publishing revolution of the early 1980’s (I still love the bulky beige casing of the Macintosh 512KB, and how I gawked over MacPaint as if it was insanely great), mobile itself requires a publishing revolution of its own. But where are the productivity tools for mobile? What are the go-to applications for self-publishing for smart phones and tablets? For those of us who’ve shoe horned existing web content and functionality to fit onto an iPhone screen or an Android tablet, you know that it feels wrong for all the right reasons.

The content management and productivity legacy of the last 10 years isn’t a logical fit when it comes to publishing content to a mobile device. It’s no longer a one way publishing paradigm either. The device itself has the power to augment reality, changing the presentation of content based on the preferences of the user. Attributes now include geolocation, social status and perhaps even a predisposition for discovering a new restaurant to try every Saturday night. Content is now in a constant state of flux. Voted up, shared, posted, streamed and retweeted.

The PC will continue to have a home for a number of years to come, but for most of us the mobile device will become our interface to the real-time web. For marketers, educators and businesses, the need for productivity tools to access this new engagement landscape is now more apparent than ever before. The next billion dollar company could be the mobile productivity company that none of us have heard of.