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05.23.07
Attending IBM's Technology Leadership Exchange
 By Luis Suarez
As most of you may well remember, this week I am going to be away from the office, attending IBM's Technical Leadership Exchange event, a.k.a. IBM's TLE,. in Eurodisney, Paris.
Right now I have just finished the first day where we have gone through some Lab sessions, an Introduction presentation for the speakers, since I am speaking tomorrow afternoon and, finally, a Welcome reception where there have been a whole bunch of poster sessions on different IBM related topics. I am not sure how much of it I will be able to weblog about during the course of the week since the entire event is just for an IBM audience, so I may as well continue writing a couple of weblog posts from the recent event I attended in Houston, the APQC KM & Innovation event. However, there is just one single thing that I have noticed and which I have found quite interesting and somewhat revealing. At least, to some degree.
And that is the fact that, after I have been checking out the program with the whole bunch of different keynote and breakout sessions, there are going to be very few sessions, in fact, so far I can only locate about five of them, that would be dealing with the subject of social computing and how it is getting adopted by the enterprise, whether it is for IBM internal purposes or externally with other businesses. Interesting, don't you think? Well, it gets better, because I have been talking to a good number of people coming from all sorts of different places in Europe and to most of them social computing is something relatively new where there are actually getting acquainted with some of the concepts and whatever else. But there is still some more!
This IBM TLE event is one of the most prestigious and well known within IBM's technical community, in fact, there are two of them. One always taking place in the US, this year in Anaheim, California, for an Americas and Asia Pacific audience, and then a second one in Europe for an European audience. The event taking place in the US had a whole bunch of different sessions regarding social computing and social software tools within the corporate world and while I have been catching up with most of the replays I have been looking forward to checking out what the TLE European counterpart event would bring together.
And so far, just five different breakout sessions! Yes, I know, not too many! And also while I was hanging out at the main room where a bunch of different poster sessions were presented, none of them (At least, of the whole bunch I got exposed to!) were actually tackling items related to social software and how the corporate world has been embracing it all along. Which got me thinking really about the kind of impact that social software is having all over the place, but in particular here in Europe. Not much, you would imagine, right? Yes, that may well be the case and that is something that I thought we were in the brink of making things change, and for good, but apparently, it may take a little bit longer than what I had expected. I thought we would be having several dozen sessions during this particular event on how people are adopting social networking tools in order to help knowledge workers collaborate and share knowledge easier with other peers along with customers and business partners. It looks like things are a bit slower here in Europe, as far as slow adoption is concerned. And I know a whole bunch of you folks out there would probably agree with that statement as well.
This is something that I have experienced myself in the past for the last few years and time and time again I have managed to sneak myself in these sorts of events to show and demonstrate to different people coming from different backgrounds how social computing is a new area worth while exploring and which will always help improve people's productivity by allowing everyone to produce, and manage, more of their own content and establish different connections with others.
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Luis Suarez has been working in the fields of Knowledge Management,
collaboration, communities, and learning for the past seven years, and is
heavily involved in social computing and its adoption within the enterprise.
Luis shares his insights on important KM issues of today through The Knowledge Management Blog
and ELSUA.NET, and is an active
participant in the ITtoolbox blogging
community.
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