May 16, 2008

DIG Conference Thoughts

I truly enjoyed Dr. McAfee's session at the DIG Conference and his in-depth knowledge of the Enterprise space. He had one specific diagram that was of interest; the employee ties diagram that focused on strong, weak, potential, and no ties. Additionally, he tied specific tools directly to each of these classifications.

Not sure how well the audience took to the Enterprise 2.0 space since 70% said they were not going to be implementing this type of technology any time soon. Who you ask was the audience? It was my old stomping ground with Data Architecture, Master Data Management, and Metadata. During my session, I tried to bring them around from the old thinking model of data management to a new one and we can only hope they took notice. Overall, the sessions were solid and I picked up a few nuggets that I want to ponder for awhile.

I did get the chance to each lunch with Andrew McAfee, Jevon MacDonald, and Euan Semple. The conversations were interesting and at times I wondered how many implementations they had actually seen. All three had there fair share but they seemed to focus on the home run. The wiki that redefined the way in which an organization operated or the one blog that redefined the way in which an organization communicated. My take is and has been over the past 5 years that it not the one big hit but the 50,000 little hits that change the organization.

All in all, a good conference and great information shared by all...

Posted by Todd at May 16, 2008 8:53 PM

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