in San Mateo, CAExpertise: Collaboration, online communities, collaborative strategies for the enterprise, social networks, driving adoption, collaborative learning. Leveraging social computing, collaboration and other technologies to drive business effectiveness. My focus is on strategies and metrics for Enterprise 2.0 (and beyond) and the 6 critical business processes with “collaborative leverage.” I like to question assumptions and imagine more effective ways of doing business. If it can be imagined it can be accomplished. We start with where you are, using your Portals, Intranet, Extranet, and social network investments and help you to “know what you don’t know,
About David:
David Coleman, Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies (CS), has been involved with groupware, collaborative technologies, and knowledge management (KM) and social networks since 1989. He is a frequent public speaker, an industry analyst, and author of 4 books and magazine articles on electronic collaboration and knowledge management.
David has been the lead on a wide variety of engagements on enterprise collaborative strategies with British Telecom, General Dynamics, Logitech, Network Appliance and VMware. He has created a variety of tools and methodologies to assess collaboration in the enterprise, and also does collaborative coaching with project teams to make sure they are on track and successful.
He is the author of 4 books on Groupware and Collaboration, the latest two are: 42 Rules for Successful Collaboration and Collaboration 2.0 (copies of the e-books are attached to this proposal). For the last 5 years he has written the popular “Collaboration Blog” (www.collaborate.com), and is a columnist and regular contributor to Elearning! Magazine. He is a popular speaker and presents at a wide variety of industry conferences, webinars, podcasts and video casts.
David has deep knowledge of collaboration not only from some of the research he has done. Some of his recent reports include: “Social Networks in the Enterprise” (2009) which you can see at: http://www.collaborate.com/report and The State of Collaboration 2010.” report which can be found here.
He also works with many of the 2000+ collaboration vendors that CS tracks. CS provides strategic services such as: product roadmap review, go to market strategies, demand generation activities: writing white papers, blogs, tweets, books, podcasts and webinars. CS also does custom research for vendors focusing on competitive analysis, technology partnership, and strategic or industry issues.
About Collaborative Strategies : CS is an industry analyst and consulting firm that has focused on the collaborative software market since 1989. We have a long history in market research and publishing in this area.. Based on our 20+ years of expertise, we also offer a comprehensive suite of advisory services to vendors marketing collaborative solutions and to end-user companies interested in successfully implementing collaborative solutions.
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