by Joshua-Michéle Ross
February 12, 2009 at 10:02 am · Filed under
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Pekka carries a natural enthusiasm for technology and innovation, particularly around mobile devices (as one would expect from a Finn). Pekka feels that the current recession is the ideal climate for new innovations around search.
BIO: Pekka Viljakainen is an executive vice president of Tieto and the Head of Customer and Market Operations and Tieto International. The company develops innovative IT solutions that realize and digitalize the visions of its customers. For many years, Mr. Viljakainen has analyzed the fundamental change in consumer behavior and its implications for corporate strategies in information-intensive businesses. He is involved in promoting the necessary preparations for a true revolution of services and the deep strategic role of digitalization across Europe. Prior to joining Tieto in 2000, Mr. Viljakainen had established Oy Visual Systems in 1986 and studied engineering at the University of Technology in Lappeenranta.
by Joshua-Michéle Ross
February 12, 2009 at 9:57 am · Filed under
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Nate has the enviable job of being search evangelist for Microsoft.
In this interview Nate shares some of the things that surprised him during the conference, particularly the rich, emerging possibilities of allying search with gestural interface design on Microsoft Surfaces…
by Joshua-Michéle Ross
February 11, 2009 at 4:40 pm · Filed under
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After I mangle Kirk’s title (who wouldn’t!), Kirk shares his thoughts on things that surprised him during this year’s Fast Forward conference.
BIO: Kirk Koenigsbauer is focused on the worldwide business strategy for SharePoint Products and Technologies, Project, and PerformancePoint. He also is responsible for sales, marketing, and services for FAST, and enterprise marketing for the 2007 Office system. His earlier Microsoft experiences have included responsibility for the MSN.com Product Management team, and product and program management leadership roles. Previously Mr. Koenigsbauer built and ran Amazon.com’s retail software and video games businesses and led the development and launch of Amazon’s Electronics and Auction sites. He began his career as a management information systems consultant with Andersen Consulting (Accenture). Mr. Koenigsbauer earned a B.A. in American Studies from Colby College and attended Seattle University’s Albers School of Business.
by Joshua-Michéle Ross
February 11, 2009 at 4:22 pm · Filed under
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As Jon explains, Monday’s two keynotes by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky (respectively), and Charlene Li’s Tuesday keynote offer the message that today’s more interconnected, more open and easier-to-use set of conditions for creating, sharing, finding and using information is deepening and widening in its scope and impact. The scope and impact can be summarized, in his opinion, in the working definition of a concept he calls “wirearchy” … a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results, enabled by interconnected people and technology. Don, Clay and Charlene’s points and examples assert, says Jon, that we are collectively moving into a new set of conditions characterized by an interconnected and more transparent ecosystem of information. Example after example today show us the growing impact of the decentralized distribution and use of information and knowledge on the major institutions in our society. Leaders need to listen (much more closely than before), clarify what needs to happen and why, and engage in real ways with their constituents.
BIO: Jon Husband carries out research into business strategy, organizational structures, management and work design in the interconnected Knowledge Age. He studied the sociology of organizations and social psychology in university, and after several years in banking moved into consulting with the Hay Group in Canada, with an initial focus on job analysis, competency analysis, performance management and compensation strategy and practices. As a Senior Principal in Hay’s London, UK office he worked on HR strategy, organizational effectiveness, organizational change and leadership development issues with key multinational clients. He left the Hay Group in 1994 to focus on stakeholder-driven strategic planning and organizational development, mainly involving large-scale bottom-up high involvement methods. Over the past decade he has concentrated on the growing impacts of IT and now the Web on the design and dynamics of knowledge work. He coined the term “wirearchy” in 1999, and has been speaking about the impact of the Web on work, business models and the way(s) we live and work since then. He has also co-founded a leading Web 2.0 software company, and delivers workshops about wirearchy and its impacts for clients such as Athabasca University’s Executive MBA program, and the Banff Centre’s Leading Innovation program. Jon just finished writing a book about the impact of Web 2.0 on knowledge management, published by the ARK Group (UK), writes several blogs about social media and Web 2.0, and is an active speaker in Canada and internationally about the Web’s growing impact on enterprises.
by Joshua-Michéle Ross
February 11, 2009 at 4:03 pm · Filed under
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Brooks Gibbins is with Microsoft’s WW Financial Services Enterprise Search Group. At the heart of our discussion is the enormous opportunity that financial services firms have in putting their data to work for customers. Think about how Mint.com and Wesabe.com harness collective intelligence (i.e. they aggregate data from actual users to learn how they spend their money) to help customers make better buying/spending decisions.
