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The discussion starts with approaches to innovating in established enterprises, touching on the various challenges involved: how to improve adoption especially when trying to reach different generations within an organization; dealing with shorter development cycles and increased complexity of information; and the importance of a company's business processes and the heterogeneity of the people in those processes.
The panelists provide examples about the impact of social software such as blogs and wikis, including changes in the so-called command and control attitude of top-down organizations. To deal with increasing pace of change and complexity, companies may define new strategies internally or choose to take advantage of firms offering intermediary services, either way giving up control and moving toward more collaborative processes.
Finding the right balance is a particular challenge often mentioned by Sanford, Polese and Park. The balances aimed at include those between leaders and followers in an organization, between using traditional communication channels and adopting social software, between maintaining control and opening up and letting go, or between protecting intellectual property rights and achieving faster adoption rates.
Linda Sanford is a Senior Vice President at IBM and leads the strategy for IBM's internal transformation to the industry's premier on demand business. Previously, Ms. Sanford was Senior Vice President of IBM's Storage Systems Group, head of IBM's Global Industries Group, and General Manager of IBM's S/390 Division. Ms. Sanford also serves on multiple company boards and has even co-authored a book. She has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Business by Fortune Magazine, one of the Top Ten Innovators in the Technology Industry by Information Week Magazine, and one of the Ten Most Influential Women in Technology by Working Woman Magazine. A graduate of St. John's University, Ms. Sanford earned an M.S. in Operations Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Kim Polese was named CEO of SpikeSource in 2004. Kim co-founded Marimba in 1996, and as President and CEO she led the company through a successful public offering and to profitability, after which she served as Chairman until Marimba's acquisition by BMC Software. Before co-founding Marimba, Kim worked at Sun Microsystems and was the original product manager for Java, leading its launch in 1995. Kim earned a Bachelor's degree in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Kim also serves on the executive council of TechNet and on the board of the Global Security Institute and the University of California President's Board on Science and Innovation. She is a Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Engineered Innovation.
Sean Park is Managing Director of Digital Markets at Dresdner Kleinwort (DK). He is responsible for electronic/web-based trading, execution and analytical services across DK's capital markets and investment banking products. Digital Markets combines front office, support and IT specialists in one unit, as well as DK's Prime Brokerage Products platform, which is responsible for providing execution, collateralised financing and custodial and clearing services for both on-exchange and OTC traded assets. He is also a member of the Capital Markets Management Committee. Previously, Sean was Head of Credit Flow Products, and before DK in 2000, Sean was the Head of European Bond Syndicate at BNP Paribas. He has a B.S. in Materials Science from Rice University and is originally from Calgary, Alberta.
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