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Changing the Game: Collaboration for Strategic Advantage

Description: Driven by corporate priorities and by a variety of new technologies that are manifesting themselves in the consumer world, this next phase of the internet is all about collaboration. The debate will focus on the potential of collaboration to:

• Unlock Employee Potential
• Drive True Custom Distance Intimacy
• Distance Yourself from your Competitors

Through vivid examples of organizations around the world MIT's Thomas W. Malone outlines:

• Four decentralized organizational structures, loose hierarchies, democracies, external markets, and internal markets that will be enabled by technology but centered around enduring human values
• The shift from "command-and-control" management to "coordinate-and-cultivate," and the new skills that will be required to succeed
• A framework for determining if a company's situation is ripe for decentralizing and which organizational structure would be most effective

Speakers include:

• MIT's Thomas W. Malone
• Cisco's Shelia Jordan, Vice President, Communications and Collaboration IT
• Tim Ringo, Global Leader, Human Capital Management, IBM Global Businessextra

Publisher: Cisco Systems