Human Capital Summit - Human Capital Institute

HCI EventsMonday, March 5, 2012Summit Day One11:15–11:45 Networking and Expo Break — Doug Conant Book Signing11:45–12:45 Innovate or DieThere is yet another “Perfect Storm” brewing out there approaching businesses large and small, set todisrupt what we “know” works, what has always worked and change the tools for success. For sake ofsimplicity, let’s call it the rise of the 2.0’s:Management 2.0Capitalism 2.0Economics 2.0Enterprise 2.0Information Technology 2.0 (and all its siblings like Web 2.0, Internet 2.0, Apps 2.0, etc.)Government 2.0Education 2.0… And the list goes onCombine all of these new paradigms of how things work and how to get things done with the plethoraof new social paradigms, life styles, value systems and the rising economic equivalence of cultures fromaround the world, and well, we aren’t in Kansas anymore Toto… Oh yes, one more complication, everythingis now running on fast forward and thanks to technology at DVD (or even worse, flash memory) speeds notVCR speeds. What is a business leader to do?First — the key to success is now innovation. Second — technology is the key to innovation.Third — neither of the first two work if we don’t understand the relationship among innovation,technology and PEOPLE. Traditionally technology was applied to reduce human labor to increaseefficiency and reduce costs, but with value arising out of consumptive context technology must shiftto increasing human creativity and thinking — enabling, facilitating and accelerating communications,collaboration and serendipity among all of the players (suppliers, consumers, partners, regulators,creators, planners, etc.) and potential contributors of value. Information technology’s role in the future,as the platform for supporting innovation, is to increase the breadth of potential collaboration (numberand variety) and depth (level of detail and interaction) of collaboration. The goal should be to reduceor eliminate economic frictions (time, distance, total costs of interaction, learning curve, risk, initiation,etc.) as well reduce or eliminate transaction costs (what does it take to get distinct parties to interact andserve each other — particularly time, human engagement and capital).This session will be a quick course on what innovation is and isn’t, how to prepare yourself to be innovative,how to execute on innovation and the reality on what “cloud computing” has done to change the gameKeynote Presenter:Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell12:45–1:45 Lunch and Expo — Jim Stikeleather Book Signing26