The Benefits of Collaborative Technologies &
Processes 2002
By attending this online seminar you will walk away with:
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Frameworks and models for understanding the
landscape of collaborative technologies
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Tools to help you quickly assess your
organization’s collaboration requirements
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Strategies for selecting the tools and
processes that are appropriately aligned to your organization’s
business strategy
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New relationships with thought leaders,
practitioners, and others engaged in the area of business collaboration
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Presenters
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Peter Bartlett, e-Community Organizer
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Peter is currently a member of HP’s Enterprise
Workforce Development Team serving as the e Community Organizer for collaboration
in HP. Prior the his current assignment Peter was Community Organizer for the Rules of the Garage Team
which was created to help provide leadership in the Reinvention of HP with specific
focus on HP’s cultural change during its reinvention.
Prior to his current assignment and for the past eight years, Peter has
been a consultant for HP’s Product Processes Organization’s Strategic Change Service
focused on Strategic Development and Organizational Alignment.
Peter has lived in Europe and consulted to businesses throughout the world. Peter specific area of expertise
has been working with Global virtual teams working from cultures cutting across
HP businesses and geographies. Peter’s undergraduate degree is from
San Francisco State University in Urban Studies- Community Organization and Leadership
with a graduate degree from Pepperdine University.
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Douglas Bedinger, Manager, Professional Development
& eLearning
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Redefining collaboration and learning in a
virtual environment is the most recent
challenge Doug has taken on at Lucent Technologies. As a member of
the Lucent Learning Organization's
eLearning Program Management team, Doug helps drive eLearning and virtual collaboration processes
and supporting technologies within Lucent
and among the company's customers and business partners. Throughout his 21-year career at
GE, PG&E, Ascend Communications, and
now Lucent Technologies, Doug has led and supported a variety of business, professional development and organizational
change initiatives using
traditional and technology-enabled learning methodologies. Tapping
into an engineering and organization
development background, Doug maintains a strong process and people-oriented perspective,
with a focus on helping individuals
and organizations become more effective, more efficient, and more human in their pursuits.
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Bill Bruck, Principal
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Bill Bruck has over twenty years of
combined technical expertise with an understanding of organizational systems and
the people who make them work. He is a licensed psychologist with twelve published
books on the effective use of technology as well as a professional speaker on
social and organizational aspects of technological change. As a principal of Collaboration
Architects, LLC, he designs online environments and change management strategies
to support the work of distributed organizations. Recently, he has served as the
senior solutions consultant for CNA Insurance designing virtual team centers,
online events, and eLearning programs to support an organizational realignment
process. While with Caucus Systems, he also supported HP in developing online
communities of practice, and IBM in holding web-based offsite meetings. Earlier,
he was a tenured professor of psychology and Director of Institutional Research
at Marymount University
in Arlington, VA.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University
of Florida, an M.A. from Duquesne
University, and an A.B. from Brown
University. He lives in Falls
Church, VA, and works from his virtual
office on the web.
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David Coleman, Founder, Principal Consultant
and Managing Director
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As the principal
consultant with Collaborative Strategies, David works with clients to ensure the
best outcome from groupware. He has led several organizations through the process
of determining their readiness for collaboration practices, the appropriate business
processes to apply groupware to and the best tools to use in each case. He has
facilitated meetings, using electronic collaboration tools, to determine success
factors for collaborative projects. His facilitation has enabled organizations
like NASA and PacifiCare to determine their internal groupware strategy. As founder of the GroupWare ‘9X conferences,
David has watched over 10,000 people from western cultures cope with collaboration
in a competitive culture. From this experience, he developed "The
Business Transformation Game" a role playing game that exposes users
to a variety of groupware products while teaching them about personal and computer-based
collaboration. David is known for his creative solutions to marketing, analytical
and collaborative problems. He has run an independent management consulting firm
for eight years and is a seasoned leader and project manager. Prior to establishing Collaborative
Strategies, David held positions of Director of Marketing (Natural Language) and
Product Line Marketing Manager (UNIX Products Group, Oracle Corporation).
David’s entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to electronic collaboration
lead him to found the GroupWare ‘9X conference in 1992 (held annually in San Jose,
Boston, and London). He is the author/editor of Groupware
Technologies and Applications (Prentice-Hall, 1995) and Groupware:
Collaborative Strategies for Corporate LANs and Intranets (Prentice Hall,
1997). He was the editor and publisher of Group Talk, the newsletter of
workgroup computing. He is the founding editor of Virtual Workgroups, now
DVC
magazine and still contributes a monthly column. Additionally, David writes
monthly columns on groupware for Computer Reseller News and MainSpring
(an on-line resource for intranet and web developers). David has written for many
trade and business publications such as Network World, DATAMATION, Fortune,
and is a frequent speaker at conferences and tradeshows worldwide.
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Soren Kaplan, Ph.D., Co-Founder & Managing
Director
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As Managing Director
of iCohere, Soren provides overall leadership for the company’s strategic direction,
including business development, marketing and sales.
Prior to founding iCohere, Soren held numerous positions at Hewlett-Packard
Company. Most recently, he served as Manager
of Business Strategy Consulting where he led an internal consulting group that
assisted management teams across the organization with strategic planning and
organization development. Soren also served
as Manager of HP’s Process Innovation Lab, a business process R&D group that
utilized behavioral science-based theory and methods to develop leading edge approaches
for managing organizational change. Prior
to joining HP, Soren was a consultant with Cambridge, MA based IdeaScope Associates
and consulted to global 500 companies—including Kodak, Siemens, Nestle, Avery
Dennison, and 3M—in the areas of new opportunity identification, strategic innovation,
and creating innovative organizational cultures.
Soren has also consulted independently, working with both large and small
for-profit and non-profit businesses including Bank of America, AT&T, the
City and County of San Francisco, and other organizations.
Soren holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Psychology. He
has presented at institutions and universities, including the Creative Education
Foundation and the Harvard Business School, and has written and published a number
of articles.
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Lisa Kimball, Executive Producer
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Lisa Kimball is the founder and Executive
Producer of Group Jazz, a company that specializes
in applications of electronic networking and the design of virtual spaces for
organizations, teams, and online communities. Group Jazz specializes in organizational
applications of online networks for virtual teams, learning cohorts, and knowledge
sharing communities. Lisa has 20 years of experience working with corporations,
government agencies, and non-profit organizations to leverage business processes
with network media.
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Gary O’Neall, Chief Internet Officer
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Gary O’Neall is the Chief Internet Officer
responsible for engineering, product management, and electronic commerce for PlaceWare.
Gary has over 15 years of general management and engineering management experience
at Hewlett Packard and Icarian. His technology background includes extensive work
in the Internet, electronic commerce, and security areas. Prior to joining PlaceWare, Gary
held the following positions:
- VP Engineering Icarian
- a dynamically hosted workforce management solution vendor
- Founder, board member
HR-XML Consortium - A non-profit consortium dedicated to standardizing the data
interchange between HR systems and services
- General Manager Electronic
Commerce, Hewlett Packard
- Business Team Manager
OpenView Security Management Products, Hewlett Packard
- Various engineering
management positions at Hewlett Packard in the Security, Transaction Processing,
Networking, Operating Systems, and User Interface areas
Gary possesses a B.S. in Physics and Computer
Science, Iowa State University and has completed graduate courses in Computer
Science and Business at Stanford University.
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Jonathan B. Spira, Chairman and Chief Analyst
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Jonathan B. Spira, Chairman and Chief Analyst,
founded Basex in 1983. Jonathan is one of the industry's recognized leading analysts
and a pioneer in the fields of Knowledge Management and Online Communities, and
he directs all Basex research and analytic activities. He is a founding director
of the Association of Internet Professionals. He is frequently asked to speak
on the future of technology, has authored hundreds of papers on information and
knowledge management, among other topics, and has chaired several worldwide conference
series in areas related to his research. He is the co-author of The History of
Photography, to be published Sept. 2001 by Aperture. Jonathan is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania.
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Taylor Walsh, President, Onlinebriefings,
LLC
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Taylor Walsh has worked at the onset of online
collaborative technologies and services since personal computers first had modems
attached to them: - at The Source, the first national online service for personal
computer users, he managed the implementation of the online conferencing system
Participate and made possible its application in online journalism, support groups
and other emerging group formats - he was a reseller and developer of the Caucus
computer conferencing system, providing a system to the DODDS, a global network
of Defense Dept. schools, among others - as executive director of CapAccess, the
community network in Washington, he helped regional schools, local governments,
social service and community organizations make use of conferencing just as the
Internet was becoming available to the public - he formed one of the first metropolitan
area online services built around conferencing, Capital Online, which provided
very early Internet email links - in his current position as founder and president
of Onlinebriefings, he has continued his work of recent years to develop a sustainable
business model for dialog-centric online meeting services and solutions for business
and professional communities and the organizations that serve them.
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