CompanyCommand & PlatoonLeader Forums and MilSuite Lt. Col. Allen Division Chief, Business Synchronization and Governance, Office of Business Transformation

1. Enterprise 2.0: Social Media, Collaboration and Innovation in Organizational Context

3. Case Example: CompanyCommand

4. Communities of Practice Groups that share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and... deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis. Cultivating Communities of Practice Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William Snyder

5. A Highly Influential “Practice” Highly dynamic environment Decentralized Operations Where strategy is operationalized High Level of Authority & Responsibility Every Soldier is in a company— about 120 soldiers per company Complex, rapidly evolving enemy Implementing agent on all policies that impact on, or include soldiers Slide 4

7. Purpose, Values, Envisioned Future

9. Targeting the Learning Curve Time Effectiveness Learning Curve with Community of Practice Effectiveness six months later Effectiveness in a new experience X X Learning Curve without Community of Practice Time Effectiveness Learning Curve with Effectiveness six months later Effectiveness in a new experience X Learning Curve without

10. Envisioned Future Vision: Every company-level leader—past, present, & future—connected in a vibrant conversation about building and leading combat-ready teams.

12. Innovation Video Clip

13. The Model

16. Integrative Learning Model Community of Practice Hierarchical Formal, Explicit Emergent Informal, Tacit Assumption: The Leader/Organization know what the most effective practice is and tell the field to implement Assumption: The “touch points” of the enterprise know what the most effective practice is. The power to transform the organization happens when you bring the formal and the informal together!

17. Distributed Community Space Online

18. Community space is organized around the main functions of the practice of command. If commanders do these well, they will be effective. Each section is facilitated and developed by a topic lead who is an experienced commander and has a depth of experience and passion in the specific topic he or she is a lead for. Everything in the community space is targeted towards the effective practice of company command. Most recent conversations are brought forward and highlighted on the front page to create the effect of an ongoing professional conversation Featuring members introduces the community to itself and facilitates professional connections. The leadership team writes a community of practice monthly newsletter that is emailed out to all members. The newsletter has links to new content and conversations and also contains a thought piece on leadership.

19. Leader 2 Leader (L2L) Face to Face Gatherings

20. Leader 2 Leader One strategy that invigorates the distributed community is a gathering of leaders who come together face-to-face to share their knowledge and lessons learned, and to talk about things that matter when it comes to leading and building combat-ready teams.

21. Preparing for Afghanistan

23. L2L: Prep for Afghanistan Six leaders who commanded in Afghanistan spent three days in working sessions with company commanders preparing to deploy there.

24. Leader Challenge

25. Leader Challenge Based on feedback from members of the community, we can almost guarantee at some point in your deployment you will have to make a call to …

26. Leader Challenge

27. iLink

28. “ Amazon.com like” Recommendations

29. Non iLink Users, after two months

30. iLink Users, after two months

31. Collective Intelligence: Enabling Knowledge Creation Inward Facing : CompanyCommand.army.mil Externally Facing: EPA’s Puget Sound Information Challenge wiki

33. Where the Army is Going …

39. Orion

40. Conclusion