It's not about YOU as Time Magazine stated, but about US, the on-line collaboration communities.
I was at John Chamber's talk at MIT. He is CEO of CISCO Systems.
He did a very good presentation overall. I was particularly impressed with the way he connected with the audience, climbing up and down the stairs, and looking straight into the people's eyes. He was using a lapel wireless microphone. He also used Powerpoint as a complete accessory. Great!
Some of his insights were:
On business...
Understand a crisis 101:
1 - Is it market-driven or self inflicted?
2 - Determine its length and depth
3 - Prepare for the upturn
Time frames:
Vision - 5 years
Strategy - 2 to 4 years
Execution - 12 to 18 months
Organizations are switching from "Command & control" to "collaboration". This change is process-driven and requires a common vocabulary inside a company.
On technology...
We're going from "software as a service" to "everything as a service".
The importance of telepresence, not just teleconference.
With collaboration and tele-presence, CISCO now can keep track of 26 priorities a year, instead of 2 or 3 as before.
In-network processing to perform bandwidth adjustment to destination's screen size.
They have an internal Facebook-like application that enables them to choose the right people for the right job, in a cross-department view. They have a reward engine in place that is based on these kinds of contributions.
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Joana was also at the event and posted about it on her blog.
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