Over the past few years, many of us have been working feverishly to build our own companies’ versions of “Enterprise 2.0” by mixing a pinch of social networking and a dash of collaborative tools to give our workforce more effective tools to compete and fulfill their business missions. Innovation has now become central to any company’s future and success and social collaboration is proving to be a key catalyst in accelerating Innovation. Almost all businesses, large and small, are deploying technologies to enable collaboration. So, it is appropriate for us to take a deep-dive on the topic.
Dion Hinchcliffe, Senior Vice President with the Dachis Group lead our discussion. Dion has worked on scores of these projects with his clients and written extensively on the topic as Editor-in-Chief at Social Computing Magazine. He is focused on exploiting approaches which yield real ROI and can justify the time, money, and resources we have invested. Dion is extensively published in leading industry periodicals and professional journals including Communication & Strategies, Social Business Design, Social Computing Journal, and Next-Generation Enterprises. His thought leading work has been covered in BusinessWeek, CNET News, Wired, CIO Magazine, and other major news outlets. Dion also helps lead the industry by evolving the thinking on next-generation business in various social media including ZDNet, ebizQ, and the Dachis Collaboratory. He is one of the world’s most influential bloggers on social media.