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Taming a Sprawling Crawling Intranet (ii2007 teaser)

You may recall a time, and in fact still be living in a time, when you had a distinctly Web 1.0 Intranet within your organization...

A monster Intranet, with little control or organization, or even more likely, hundreds to thousands of mini-intranets, similar to the wikis/blogs of today, that are running rampant in organizations.

In this teaser, Lisa Butcher gives a hint as to the story behind the March of Dimes journey from a sprawling Intranet to an Enterprise Portal, and what it took to get from there to here, and in keeping it moving forward beyond the migration stage.

Taxonomy as savior? Governance as secret sauce?

Take a listen, and come here Lisa discuss this in more depth at Innovation Insights 2007 (www.ii2007.com) - April 23-25 at the Wigwam Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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The World Speaks... Do you Listen? (ii2007 teaser)

Mass media in prior years was the equivalent of an atom bomb in getting the message out to audiences, and now, for better or worse, the playing field is shifting, and the audience now expects more personalized messages, and more importantly, is conversing back with the companies and organizations that are either important or annoying to them.

Welcome to Web 2.0, and the world of user generated media...

How does your company react in this new world? Full transparency? Total secrecy? A mix? Does the world hate you or love you? How fast do they flip between the extremes? How do YOU react when there is bad weather affecting your flights, when rumors of a french fried finger surface about your fast food chain? When a new product launch falls flat on it's face? Can you react swiftly and purposefully to the ebb and flow, or are your knees kicked out from under you?

In this teaser, Christine Maxwell discusses how organizations are both dipping their toes, and jumping in with both feet, to the Web 2.0 world, and what they are learning from their experience. Christine will provide far more information and case studies at the Innovation Insights 2007 event (www.ii2007.com), April 23-25 at the Wigwam Resort outside of Scottsdale, Arizona - and we hope to see you there to continue the conversation about world wide conversations and Web 2.0.

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Digging out from the Infoglut Trench? (ii2007 teaser)

We're all feeling it...

Infoglut is crushing us on a daily basis, whether it be at work, at home, via the physical junk mail we get, professional magazines, news feeds, etc..

Many solutions have been proposed (in an enterprise setting), to minimize infoglut, and in bringing back enough time and other resources to make the fight to get through to the USEFUL information/knowledge, be a fight that can be WON.

In this session, Jill Konieczko, Director of Information & Research Services at the U.S. News & World Report in DC., will examine the ways that the US News and World Report solved both end-user needs (reporters, who need both precision and recall in their background and other searches for reportable information), as well as in satisfying the management needs in justifying expenditures on the news feeds and other sources, as well as the new search/find solution that was ultimately purchased and turned on, to make suitable decisions as to where current and future funds are allocated.

If you are stuck in your own information ditch, and would like some tips on how to build a ladder and get back out (and STAY out), take a listen to this teaser interview with Jill, and then come on down to Arizona and hear the full details in person at her live session at ii2007 - Innovation Insights 2007 (www.ii2007.com).

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Mind Mapping Tips from A Master

This interview between myself, Dan Keldsen, and Phil Chambers, Founder and Managing Director of Learning Technologies Ltd (www.learning-tech.co.uk), and current reigning World Mind Mapping Champion, centers around how to get started in Mind Mapping, as well as what the typical stumbling blocks are to successfully *doing* Mind Mapping.

Rather than talk about this in the abstract, I am using myself as a guinea pig to discuss common pitfalls (which I've run into myself - glad to hear I'm not alone), the science behind the techniques of Mind Mapping (good to get a reminder that this isn't just "random stuff" that Tony Buzan had come up with), and much more.

We're all in this together, so as always, I invite all listeners to participate in the discussion, either by posting a comment or throwing a trackback from your blog to this blog (www.BizTechTalk.com), or be leaving me a voice message at my call-in number of 781-268-0716 and leave me a message regarding this post. Any interesting comments I get I will post to the blog (unless you prefer not to get your 15 megabytes of fame).

NOTE: There is a limit of 2 minutes per recording, so you will need to be somewhat brief. Brevity is the soul of wit - and a key to Mind Mapping, so consider it good exercise!

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Is Your Organization built to Kill Innovation? (ii2007 teaser)

There are many threats to Innovation - and most of those discussions stem from concerns about a lack of "out of the box" thinking within organizations.

But that's not the only problem that is attacking an organizational ability to innovate.

How do regulatory concerns stifle innovation?

How do security measures that are meant to increase productivity and manage risk in an organization, end up not just slowing down innovation, but perhaps kill it outright?

Listen in to this 12 minute preview of Rick Dove's full presentation (which will be presented at Innovation Insights 2007 - www.ii2007.com April 23-25), and you may be shocked at some of the angles he is looking at that go straight to the heart of how businesses operate in the 21st century.

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Bill and Melinda Gates, Big Pharma, Gaming? (ii2007 teaser)

The pharmaceutical world is a classic case study in the high-stakes quest for "Blockbuster" drugs and massive Research and Development spend.

Did you know that the expected development costs PER DRUG on the blockbuster level has crested over $1 Billion USD?

The world is changing, and Jan Twombly and Jeff Shuman from The Rhythm of Business will discuss in this session at our April 2007 event, Innovation Insights 2007, how multi-organization collaboration networks are changing the way Big Pharma is doing business, and what lessons we can draw from the online gaming world, and apply back to YOUR Innovation challenges.

The face of collaboration is rapidly changing - are YOU keeping pace?

Get your collaboration shoes on and jump into this session for some important lessons we can all use to keep pace in the fast paced world of Innovation.

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Not invented here? Great! (ii2007 teaser)

In many organizations, particularly technology-heavy organizations, or even worse, technology providers themselves, there is a belief that unless THEY invented something, it can't possibly be good, let alone a great or worthy solution to their problems. In this teaser interview with Ives De Saeger and Christian De Neef, who will be presenting at Innovation Insights 2007 on "TRIZ, Uniting Innovation and Knowledge Management!," we touch upon a few of the key concepts of TRIZ (The Russian Theory of Inventive Problem Solving - a very deep toolbox of methodologies that can be applied to problem solving of all kids), how to define Innovation, and how to attack the sticky problems in your own organization. Blow apart your problems, and recombine existing solutions, and you may be on the fast track to smoother operations in your organization!

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Is Complexity Killing You? (ii2007 teaser)

A brief teaser with David Houlding, speaking on the topic of Managing Complexity in Enterprise Architecture at our Innovation Insights 2007 event in April.

We hint at the metadata and ontological work that David and his teammates have had to put in place to enable collaboration around complex healthcare systems to enable both rapid iteration in keeping healthcare systems running, improving, and in targeting to larger and longer-term business goals.

Are you in a flat world, or BEING flattened? Make a stand and pull back some of the successes that David will disclose in this session, and apply those tips to your own organization!

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The Motivation for Innovation

This session on The Motivation for Innovation is an interview with Jeffrey Phillips from OVO Innovation (http://www.ovoinnovation.com/). Jeffrey is the VP of Marketing and a Lead Consultant with OVO, and he also runs the blog Innovate on Purpose (http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com), where he covers Innovation from a wide variety of angles.

What drives people and organizations to pursue Innovation? What is Innovation? How do you tell if your company can initiate and sustain Innovation? This 23 minute interview with covers a range of ways to peel the onion around Innovation to identify whether you are ripe to take the Innovation ball and run with it (play with it?) in your organization. And if not, how to jolt the system and make progress in providing The Motivation for Innovation in your organization.

As always, I invite all listeners to participate in the discussion, either by posting a comment or throwing a trackback from your blog to this blog (www.BizTechTalk.com), or be leaving me a voice message at my call-in number of 781-268-0716 and leave me a message regarding this post. Any interesting comments I get I will post to the blog (unless you prefer not to get your 15 megabytes of fame).

NOTE: There is a limit of 2 minutes per recording, so you will need to be somewhat brief. Have your caffeine fix in advance of the call ;).

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Intel: Global Collaboration and Teaming in 3D (ii2007 tease)

How is Second Life impacting the next generation of personal and team-based 3D workspaces? How are electronic healthcare records being augmented to make more intelligent and interactive systems for doctors and healthcare providers? Have the lessons of Edward Tufte (the information presentation guru that EVERY system designer should know about) penetrated into enterprise solutions?

This 7 minute glimpse into the presentation that Cindy Pickering, a Principal Engineer from Intel will be presenting at Innovation Insights 2007 (www.ii2007.com), between April 23-25, 2007 at the Wigwam Resort in Arizona. It is rumored that Cindy will be able to show a live demonstration of the 3D workspace environment she describes in this brief interview... Do you want to see the future of virtual workspaces before your colleagues even know about it? Come to Cindy's presentation, and get a glimpse directly!

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