One of the best events I attended in 2008 was the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.
It was full of detailed, real case studies, a well-managed minimum of vendor pitches (except where they were noted as such) and several hundred smart people I managed to meet face-to-face for the first time. As much as I only got to spend a day or so sightseeing in and around Boston, it was a great place to spend a few days immersed in the Enterprise 2.0 world and a little US history.
The conference is on again in Boston on June 22-25. I’d love the opportunity to go, but it’s just not going to happen this year unless Christmas comes early. Instead, as a blog partner for the conference, I have a discount code for 30% off – use it if you want to register.
I’ve also got a full conference pass to give away. But that’s going to be a little more challenging. I want you to comment here on how Enterprise 2.0 can be an enabler for Government 2.0. The combination of these two movements, closely related as they are, offer great opportunity and I want to hear your view. The best idea will get the pass.
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Hi Stephen, I was really happy to met you last year. As you know, I live in Montreal (5 hours drive from Boston) and I really want to be there this also this year. Here’s my answer to get your pass.
I think Enterprise 2.0 can enable an increase Innovation between companies in a country. It can also drive change in an Innovation Strategy of a Government. In Canada, one of the biggest problem in the Innovation Strategy is the collaboration between enterprises and between enterprises and government services.
“We have learned that innovation performance comes from how well these performers do individually and how well they collaborate with each other. Stimulating innovation requires sustained collaboration and a systemic response by different individuals and institutions in the innovation system working together. Municipal, provincial and federal government funding, and policies act as incentives to innovative activity. Policies can also promote and ease international collaboration, strengthening access to the global pool of knowledge and expertise. Companies, institutions and governments must be strategic and nimble with their science and technology (S&T) investments and decision-making to capitalize on emerging technological shifts and new economic and societal opportunities.” -From : http://www.stic-csti.ca/eic/site/stic-csti.nsf/eng/00016.html
Hi,
To start, excuse me for my English faults.
I have decided to live in Montreal for one year. I want to go to Boston to discover a country and an important place of reflexions and examples of the 2.0.
Company 2.0 is a combat which I have carried out in Europe for a few years. It is the obligatory transformation in a world moving, crisis, change.
Companies 2.0 will not live without employees 2.0, life 2.0 and thus government 2.0. We have very to transform our way of living in a better environment.
New technologies enable us to better live, be more productive, to be innovating by respecting nature. The social innovation is a common work of the employee, the citizen, the elected official and managers of company.
We have all the same objective: to better live. One would need a book for all to explain but to summarize the numerical policy is there louse to recreate new fabrics economic and social, to imagine tomorrow.
The companies must take part and become in it at the same time 2.0
Hi Stephen,
If you still have a pass to give, please give it to Xavier. I already got one… and I’m going there with him !
Thanks and best regards,
Pascal