Collaborative Technologies Conference

Actualización 20/06/2006.- Ross Mayfield comenta algunos aspectos relacionados con la conferencia en Mike Rhodin, IBM GM of Lotus, on Mashups y toda una serie de entradas posteriores.

Ya tengo una referencia de lo que me gustaría algún día poder organizar por aquí. Algo parecido a la Collaborative Technologies Conference. El programa de actos creo que aglutina buena parte de los hilos de una estimulante conversación en torno al impacto de las tecnologías de información y comunicación (cada vez me hace más ruido esta denominación) en la empresa.

Algunos botones de muestra:

• La creación de una cultura de colaboración
• La vida social del aprendizaje en una era conectada en red
• Opciones alternativas de colaboración en la empresa
• Colaboración en gran escala: redes sociales y predicción de mercados
• Dando sentido a la web 2.0: su impacto en la empresa (por supuesto, con Dion Hinchcliffe)
• Continuidad de un negocio y tecnologías para la colaboración

Why Your Business Needs Collaborative Tools and Technologies

If your business is like most, you are continually looking for ways to raise the value of existing IT infrastructures, while reducing costs and increasing productivity. Collaboration tools help companies achieve these goals through:

• Agility: Collaboration strategies enable businesses to improve communication, overall processes and productivity, reducing time to market, redundancy, and saving precious budget dollars. Due to the wide variety of communication devices available, employees often waste time trying to determine the best way to get in touch with colleagues at any given time.
• Cutting IT and telephony costs: Many technologies, such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and converged networks, offer your company ways to realize dramatic savings in storage, carrier fees, etc.
• Cutting travel costs: The need for travel declines when employees can stay connected to partners, colleagues and customers through web conferencing, video conferencing and audio conferencing, messaging, and shared workspaces.
• Enabling the virtual workplace by supporting mobile workers, virtual teams, and outsourced and partner relationships: Companies benefit at the bottom line with reduced facility costs and the ability to hire top talent. Additionally, an enabled virtual workplace allows for a quicker reaction time to market conditions, while also providing employees increased flexibility and agility to perform their jobs.
• Enabling deeper customer relationships: Collaboration tools are powerful devices for customer acquisition and retention. Collaborative technologies enable companies to gain a deeper understanding of their customers, help predict customer needs and provide appropriate information faster all while serving a virtually infinite number of customers, 24/7, completely automated, and in ways like never before.

Bueno, ya veis que el programa, al menos para mí, resulta especialmente atractivo. Lo seguiré de cerca para ver si colocan materiales a disposición. Avisaré con tiempo si así sucede para que podamos estudiarlos. No obstante, el congreso tiene ese típico punto de autobombo frente al que siempre conviene levantar una pizca de prevención.

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