Adapting to Change: The Impact of Youth and Technology on the Global Enterprise

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+ guest7df239e 7 months ago
Very cool Sheraan!!!
Joel
+ srihari_b 10 months ago
Great thought
+ Sheraan Amod 11 months ago
Thanks. This presentation only covered the fundamentals of Web 2.0- developments like mash-ups, prediction markets, microblogging, crowd sourcing, RSS and podcasting weren’t touched on at all.
+ guestcc332 11 months ago
Great presentation. We’re funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the U.S. and they are encouraging grantees to experiment with Web 2.0 tools to promote public health goals. Most of us don’t use these tools regularly so there’s a steep learning curve. I found this slide show very informative.
+ guestdaf437f 11 months ago
Interesting presentation man, most impressive. i like!
Thabo @ Rhodes
+ Sheraan Amod 11 months ago
@Sareeha: glad you liked it! Not sure why you can’t download it- I did enable that option.

@dacron: :-)
+ Denise Caron 11 months ago
Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense.
+ Sheraan Amod 11 months ago
@dcaron: thanks for your comment. My background is in IT so I understand where you are coming from. When doing this presentation, I wasn’t marking the IT department out to be the bad guys at all. Understand my audience: they were business execs in non-tech/media industries (e.g. mining, manufacturing etc) and most of my content was new and perhaps a little scary for them. In an situation dealing with technological unknowns (e.g. wikis), managers may sometimes hide behind the excuse, ’The IT dept. would never let me do that’. I raised it as a question, and then encouraged them to actually speak to their IT departments and ask them what was possible (let the experts make the call). PBWiki was used as a verifying example because they have many security-aware corporate clients.

Security issues will differ from company to company, but from a managerial perspective, abandoning fear of the unknown and embracing change was the message I tried to get across.
+ Denise Caron 11 months ago
Most IT people are worried about some of the social sites, not because they don’t get it, because there are many incidents. We had it fully openned until just last year when we had some severe issues that involved law enforcement. There are also regulations from Credit Card companies, SOX and others that puts liability issues on the company and it’s a business decision to take risks or not, not IT. I do get annoyed by the fact that everyone labels IT as the bad guy instead of trying to understand the resons behind.
+ Sheraan Amod 11 months ago
Hi folks, I first gave this presentation in July 2008, and it was well received overall. The slide show above is missing a couple of short explanatory videos and multimedia bits (and the humour!), but I would still love to hear your comments. Anything that would help me improve my style would be appreciated, thanks.

Notes on slide 1

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Adapting to Change: The Impact of Youth and Technology on the Global Enterprise - Presentation Transcript

Adapting to Change: The Impact of Youth and Technology on the Global Enterprise
Sheraan’s Desk
EMAIL & IM BLOGS WIKIS SOCIAL NETWORKS Isn’t that obvious?
GMail – Web 2.0’s first killer app? (source: gmail.com)
Blogging – read or write life (source: tylerreed.co.za)
Wiki – many authors, one site (source: engineering.wikia.com)
Facebook– SA’s #1 social network (source: facebook.com)
“ The United Nations defines ‘ youth ’, as those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years” (source: www.un.org/youth)
250,000 joining per day Over 100 million users (source: CNET News)
of time online spent on social networks 1/3 (source: The Guardian)
NOT JUST GEEKS!
(source: Chartered Management Institute & Ordnance )
(we’re used to information abundance and attention scarcity ) (sources: answers.com, google.com, wikipedia.com
“ This generation thinks differently, behaves differently and is already starting to demand, aggressively, big changes in the way society, business and individuals interact. Is your workplace prepared for the changes?” – CIO Insight Magazine
WEB 2.0 OFFICE BAN ?
(source:. Telindus)
“ Toughest generation to manage. ” (source: Atlantic Associates)
“ Social networking penetration with teens close to 100%. ” – Ad Age 2007
Bob Kahn (Co-founder, The Internet) Me (Lucky Techie)
SA isn’t alone. Orkut (Brazil’s top social network) is banned at work , too.
(source: Le Monde)
CULT URE YOUTH ARE GROWING UP
IT department worried?
(source: pbwiki.com)
Work from anywhere. (And stop flying so much)
(source: KPMG Economist Intelligence)
SHIFT ! TECHNOLOGY PEOPLE
“ It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change. ” - Charles Darwin
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