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Breakfast Series with Rich Hoeg from the Honeywell International: Successful utilization of Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools Within the Corporate Environment
As part of Honeywell's Corporate Information Technology team, Rich Hoeg leads the web collaboration and knowledge sharing research activities. His role is to investigate and pilot new tools with an eye towards enhancing knowledge sharing by Honeywell's global workforce of 120,000+ employees.
Join Mr. Hoeg as he demonstrates how the development and utilization of social networking tools at Honeywell has led to improved efficiency, enhanced knowledge sharing, greater productivity, and new innovations within the corporate environment. He will give an overview of the “Honeywell Knowledge Center” (corporate Intranet), and the social media tools they employ to improve workflow and the collaboration of ideas, including:
Hoeg is an expert and Greenbelt certified in knowledge management. As opposed to using high priced tools, his approach is to find user friendly, practical low cost resources that may be quickly adopted by the Honeywell user community.
DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM A BUSINESS PIONEER.
About Rich Hoeg
Hoeg’s career has followed the rise of the micro-computer and the World Wide Web. Back in the 1980's he started Honeywell's computer training program. In the 1990's he built some of Honeywell's first internal and external Web services, and now after having built Honeywell's eLearning and virtual library portal, he is focusing upon knowledge collaboration / sharing tools for Honeywell. As he summarizes, he is trying to build the "virtual water cooler!”
Some of his recent projects include the creation of internal engineering blogs, wikis, a social network / tagging engine, and a technology podcast. He also has extensive content development and product admin knowledge on these systems.
AboutHoneywell International
Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. With roots tracing back to 1885, Honeywell employs more than 128,000 people in 100 countries.
Whether you're flying on a plane, driving a car, heating or cooling a home, furnishing an apartment, taking medication or playing a sport, Honeywell products touch most peoples' lives everyday. They are building a world that's safer and more secure…more comfortable and energy efficient…more innovative and productive.
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Rich is flying in from Minneapolis to discuss outstanding successes he has had in transforming the processes of an organization utilizing Social Networking Tools with great success. It was a challenge for him to get the leadership at Honeywell to let the employees control content using social media tools. However, once they did, collaboration and productivity skyrocketed. This is a great opportunity to hear from a leader using innovative approaches using social media within a large corporation.