I'd like to welcome you all to my opening blog. Thank you for taking the time to hear my thoughts. Open forums of this nature make it easy to brainstorm on an enterprise-wide level, and exemplify the power of web 2.0 technologies.
Advances in mobile video, conferencing, internet, and 2.0 applications (Facebook, Twitter, etc...) are changing the way the workforce interacts with each other. These changes are part of the next generation of the internet and hold invaluable potential for how the workforce of the future will become more flexible, technology forward, and collaborative.
The problem: The management of today is mostly built on Generation X members who have yet to embrace the technologies their employees (Generation Y) grew up on. This is creating a communication gap between management and employees, producing an efficiency loss that stems from the opportunity cost of Not leveraging 2.0, video, or mobile communication channels.
Running late for a meeting? Shoot a text to your team.
Giving a quarterly readout? Turn on that web camera.
Want to help build a professional network within your team? Get on LinkedIn.
I'm not saying that everyone is not using video, 2.0, etc... Don't get me wrong, I'm simply saying that there are so many collaboration vehicles evolving as the next gen internet rolls out that can be used to shorten the communication gaps existing in siloed operational process architectures, that companies should take advantage of them.
Shortening communication gaps between management and employee cross functionally will supplement new operational models of boards and councils, integrate the traditional management style of Generation X with the next gen communication habits of Gen Y, and allow organizations to become more progressive on the whole.
