There is a huge amount of talk and buzz around Web 2.0, modern collaboration technologies, 'social software', and a plethora of other distractions, some immensely valuable and most lightweight froth.
How the best of these ideas and associated technologies could help your company and how they fit in with your existing infrastructure is a complex challenge to unravel: I engage with your key strategists to help identify value and relevant productivity enhancements based on my understanding of this area on many levels.
Solutions to YOUR problems
Demystifying and getting on your wavelength and providing relevant context is vital to cut through the clutter in order to make informed, cost effective intelligent decisions. Analysts offer expensive, narrowly focused generic reports on industry sectors: I provide impartial advice on the most appropriate ways forward based on where you are now and where you want to go with your people, business processes and existing technology infrastructure.
Whether you are planning on an international, company wide level or focused on a specific business area, I and my international associates can provide seasoned consulting that will couple thoughtleader thinking with appropriate best of breed technology solutions that will supercharge your collaboration.
Companies have huge issues with the ad hoc adoption ('shadow IT') of modern lightweight web technologies which can compromise security and create even more silos; a top down mandate which condones grass roots adoption and uptake is the best solution for interconnectivity and legitimacy.
Roadmaps & Budgeting
Planning this strategy is not only hugely cost effective on a budget watching level, it also lays the foundations for effective business scaling, interconnectivity, greatly enhanced productivity, knowledge capture and sharing through cultural change coupled with modern technologies.
There are many, many ways this can go wrong through fragmentation, lack of workflow logic and silo protection if this important work is not executed well. Identifying high level roadmaps that plan the most effective route to your business goals is essential to avoid the common pitfalls that eat budgets and ruin efficiency and credibility.
I can educate and guide you to lasting foundational strategic solutions that will immediately provide greatly increased efficiencies and scale elegantly as your company grows.
Services
Enterprise Collaboration Consultation at Your Location Worldwide
A 10 hour collaborative engagement which provides an overarching discussion of Enterprise 2.0 technologies.
Not a canned presentation, the goal is to provide an Enterprise 2.0 overview in the context of your specific issues.
This popular session is intended to provide a mature, informed understanding of both the opportunities and benefits offered by Enterprise 2.0, and how these lightweight technologies can interface with your existing infrastructure.
A group size of 6 to 10 people is optimum for an engaging interactive experience. I provide insight into similar problem solving in other enterprises where relevant, plus case histories, and will attempt to drill down into specific problem solving as time allows.
This can be an afternoon and following morning engagement to allow time to think and digest before the second session, or a single all day session. I am available worldwide for this engagement within constraints of existing schedule and travel plans.
Telephone Consultation by the Hour
A popular format: pick my brains for an hour or more with your specific issues. Use me as a sounding board for your strategic or tactical plans, tap into my extensive knowledge of technology solutions for given tasks and problems.
Organizational Moderation & Diplomacy
A valuable role I can play in discussions between different parts of an organization - large or small - is meeting moderator. This can be helpful in providing an expert viewpoint between for example IT and business line groups in identifying possible strategies that will bring disparate groups together by identifying goals and routes to more effective collaboration.
It can be helpful to have an impartial non stakeholder to steer conversation and assist in resolving differences in order to move forward for both internal and external partner conversations.
I can play this role either at your location or remotely using telephone, voip or telepresence as needed.
Enterprise Collaboration Consulting
Longer term engagements around setting up viable collaboration environments to achieve your goals. These engagements vary significantly in scope and size and are defined by specific needs.
Intercontinental, interdivisional, interdepartmental or inter company, scenarios vary widely.
As appropriate I am able to bring in expert associates to bring focus to specific vertical issues as part of core solutions to specified goals.