Re-org!? Organic Organizational Transformation

In an enterprise 2.0 world, performance metrics are nothing like they used to be. Your top blogger is possibly your biggest influencer and maybe your biggest critic. If your VP's aren't establishing their thought leadership, you're probably paying the wrong person. Here, we take a look at how enterprise collaboration is a prerequiste for thought leadership performance and why the future of the high performing org is influenced by influencers. Some key points include:

• The single best strategy to increase your industry thought leadership
• 10 Do's and Don'ts of thought leadership from the front lines
• The ROI of Executive Thought Leadership
• How Executive bloggers are helping to re-brand their companies
• Why CEO's need to just let go of the reins
• How to structure a winning strategy through employee collaboration

An Executive Blogger featured on CIO.com, Cloudave.com, Seekomega.com, ERP.com and other high profile sites.  Fidelman has the inside scoop for building thought leadership in your industry.

Mark Fidelman has advised and provided strategy for many start ups including a social networking site that was sold to Barry Diller's IAC. He is well known for providing revenue generation strategies and sales execution for companies looking to grow exponentially despite being a $5m start up or in the Fortune 1000. Before joining MindTouch, he led global sales efforts as an Executive Vice President for a publicly traded company, headed sales efforts for a technology division of AT Kearney and EDS, and served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for a Singapore based corporation.

Mr. Fidelman has been a presenter, keynote speaker and led corporate education and training initiatives at numerous events including: CES, NAB, COM IT Expo, SDSIC, Autodesk University.

Recognizing the IT workforces' high demandfor an open source, scalable and collaborative platform that required easy-to-use and familiar functionality for business users' speedy adoption, MindTouch was founded by Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson in 2005. The first iteration of MindTouch, Deki Wiki, was created as a pet project and within three years was rated as one of the Top 5 OSS Projects by SourceForge.net.

Two years later the pet project grew to a robust enterprise collaboration platform with more than 16 million users, 400,000 web visits each month and SourceForge.net positioning as "#1 in open source collaboration." MindTouch is ranked in the Forrester Wave, Gartner's Magical Quadrant and frequently referred to as an alternative to Sharepoint. From powering Mozilla's vast developer community to a Gov 2.0 UGC portal for the Washington Post, the platform is being implemented globally by Fortune 20 and small businesses alike.

Today, thousands of developers, business users, IT and information workers login to their MindTouch deployments and define new ways to benefit from the business platform. MindTouch users are proliferating solutions online, behind firewalls and in the MindTouch developer community. In 2009, MindTouch released a new suite of products including the Collaborative Intranet, Corporate Extranet, Collaborative Product Documentation, Knowledge Base and Dashboard CRM Mash-up. NEC, Microsoft, Amazon, Novell, Cap Gemini, The Washington Post and many others make significant code contributions to the MindTouch platform and continuously help drive the innovation of new products.