Roundtable: Collaboration tools & innovation
March 28, 2007
11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Eastern), 8:00 am - 11:00
am (Pacific) via teleconference
Can blogs, wikis, and other collaboration products like
team workspaces promote innovation and make employees more productive?
Beyond the tools, what kind of intellectual infrastructure is needed?
That's what Brian Gorman, leader of the Advanced Collaboration
and Innovation team at Intel, is trying to find out with an internal-to-Intel
"IT Innovation Zone." The idea is to create new functions with
no formalized support and give employees the tools to build communities
around them. Gorman maintains that in many cases, high support costs
torpedo new IT projects before they get off the drawing board.
FEATURED GUEST
In this 3-hour teleconference roundtable, Brian will describe the
Intel IT "Innovation Zone" project. He'll discuss how his
international team manages the project, what results he's achieved to date,
and what the team plans to do in the future.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This event is for experienced practitioners. If you have limited
familiarity with taxonomies, metadata repositories, or collaboration
applications, you can take the pre-roundtable primer on March
27. Software vendors and systems integrators are welcome to attend but
only in their role as practitioners. In other words, they must be willing
to discuss their own internal practices.
DISCUSSION TOPICS
The following is a preliminary list of questions
which Brian will answer. Additional topics and questions
may be added by participants during the session.
• What did you learn from your experience
with collaboration software?
• What are your goals for the IT Innovation
Zone?
• Do you have any concrete evidence that the
project has contributed to innovation in IT as well as other business
functions?
• What kind of intellectual infrastructure
(e.g. training, taxonomies, policies, knowledge bases) is necessary
to promote collaboration and innovation?
• Who's on your team and what do they do?
Since people are scattered all over the globe, how do you actually
get things done?
• Are you using blogs and wikis? How are
they working out?
• In your career as manager of Innovation
& Research, what mistakes have you made? What did you learn from them?
• Do you know of other companies
that are doing something similar?
• How would you describe Intel's corporate
culture? How well do you think your project would work in a different
culture?
• What are your future plans for the Innovation
Zone project?
FORMAT
The format uses Webex for video and teleconferencing for the audio. If
you aren't allowed to install the Webex program on your computer, you
can still participate. Call for details.
COST
$400 per person (members), $650 per person
(nonmembers). Nonmembers who register for this roundtable automatically
become members of the Society of Knowledge Base
Publishers.
Additional people from the same team can attend at
a reduced rate of $325 (includes full Society membership).
DATE, TIME
March 28, 2007, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Eastern),
8:00 am - 11:00 am (Pacific)
REGISTRATION
To register, call (413) 367-0245. We can fax
a pro forma invoice, and we accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express,
Discover, and Diner's Club. We must receive payment at least 7 days
prior to the event.
Created on October 17, 2006 l Updated on
March 14, 2008
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