IT Manager 2.0 Session

This was an interesting session that did not meet my expectations. I was expecting the talk to be about managing the 2.0 enterprise. Instead this session was about the evolving IT Manager role. There was a bit of "preaching to the converted" feel to the session. The five issues the presenter identified are new tools, moving from vendors to utilities, security, alignment, focus and intent. The speaker led 5 break out sessions around each of these topics. They were very energetic, but again, we were all saying the same things - it is not the technology, it is the culture; IT needs to be better aligned with the business; and so on.

This was my first exposure to SLATES - the fundamental changes that Enterprise 2.0 represents. Search, Links, Authoring, Tags, Extensions, Signals. Authoring is talking to having distributed authoring - where anyone at any time can publish anything, within the environment. Signals is about using RSS in the enterprise.

Everything I heard, was right in the strike zone we are aiming for. Only issue is people are moving forward very quickly - much faster than we seem to be.