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    1. Urs Gasser When Digital Natives Enter Workforce (Are You Ready?)
    2. In a nutshell
      • Digital Natives share a set of characteristics that set them apart from “digital immigrants” like us
      • Key differences in how they interact with technology, information, and each other - globally
      • Not only parents, teachers, marketers, … but also employers should care about these differences, since first generation born digital enters workforce
      • Shared culture of Digital Natives brings opportunities and challenges (even risks) to companies
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    3. What’s different about Digital Natives? CSN Conference 2009 Wear headphones on the way to first job Last nights’ party photos are already online Time it takes to learn how to use a new mobile phone Write SMS without looking Number of friends on MySpace or StudiVZ “ always on”
    4. Digital Natives: Some Characteristics
      • Always online
      • Multiple identities, personal and social, shaped online and offline (blurring)
      • Extensive disclosure of personal data
      • Culture of sharing
      • Creators, no longer passive users
      • Peer collaboration, online activism
      • Learning through browsing
      • Wrestling with amount & quality of information, generation of “multi-taskers”
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    5. Information Disclosure & Sharing: Opportunities for Employers CSN Conference 2009
      • Extensive self-disclosure
        • Profiles on social networking sites
        • Create videos on YouTube
        • Post photos on photobucket
        • Write blogs, and comment on others’
      •  Allow HR departments to learn more about employees: their habits, interests, preferences, darker sides...
      •  But: data protection issues, and: they also google you!
    6. Information Disclosure & Sharing: Challenges for Employers CSN Conference 2009
      • Self-disclosure as expression of different attitude towards expectation of privacy and confidentiality
      • Default on information sharing, also when it comes to company information
      • Not only right to speak, but to be heard
      • Breach of confidentiality is hip, Digital Natives as fans of WikiLeaks
      •  Policy-setting and compliance become more important (and tricky!)
      •  New challenges for reputation management
    7. Information Processing Habits: Challenges for Employers CSN Conference 2009
      • Different ways in which Digital Natives select, evaluate, and process information.
      • Non-hierarchical (peer orientation, not experts; tagging)
      • Short-cuts for info quality assessments
      • Short attention span
      •  what means credibility of information?
      •  require new ways of goal-setting
      •  require special guidance in prioritizing tasks
    8. Information Processing Habits: Opportunities for Employers CSN Conference 2009
      • Different ways to interact with content and to re-arrange information may increase creativity (rip, mix, burn) and innovation (mostly incremental)
      • Orientation towards networks of peers combined with norms of sharing fosters communication within the company
      •  Attitude towards knowledge management (e.g. wikis, blogs) may change to the good
      •  Intra-company flow of information may increase productivity
    9. Peer Collaboration & Community Building: Opportunities for Employers CSN Conference 2009
      • Digital Natives are often experienced peer workers and community builders, responsive to intrinsic motivations
      • Using alternative types of incentives to encourage intra-company collaboration
      • Embrace productive power of communities
      •  opportunities for design of alternative organizations and new governance structures (shared norms)
    10. Peer Collaboration & Community Building: Challenges for Employers CSN Conference 2009
      • Mind the (same) power of communities when things go wrong
      • Threat of large-scale, aggressive campaigns against companies and boycotts increases
      • Digital Natives good at organizing protests: Well connected, experienced users of web 2.0 tools; viral nature of information in online environment,
      •  requires careful management of relationships with employees
      •  critical issues must be resolved
    11. CSN Conference 2009 Digital Natives: In 10 years… Where will we be?
    12. CSN Conference 2009 Enterprise 2.0 Where will you be?
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