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Defining The Value of the Virtual Symposium … getting IT Leaders to “Do Something”

By Melinda Moses | March 17, 2009

… by reading between the lines of Seth Godin’s blog.

Fundamentally, the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium’s goal for both the real event and the virtual community (stay tuned) is to bring together people and ideas that foster change while helping IT leaders evolve their practices and programs to better support their business, their people, and the  ecosystem in which they operate.

Seth gets this and blogs about it in this post. What’s interesting is that it makes the point, but his reference is something that was created 10 years ago. It’s a quick read … check it out.

Seth’s Blog: What do you do when you read Kevin Kelly?.

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One Response to “Defining The Value of the Virtual Symposium … getting IT Leaders to “Do Something””

  1. Melinda Moses on March 17th, 2009 12:29 pm

    … actually the title SHOULD say “Motivating and Enabling IT Leaders to Do Something”. We provide the tools, insights, infrastructure and motivation, but it’s really up to them to make it happen.

    How can we facilitate this move from ‘consideration’ to ‘action’?? Any ideas??

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