It is in this contexte of financial crisis that Kimind decided to offer free (*) by mid february 2009 1 day of free consulting  to any CIO or CEO/COO of large account that request it. In order to present, analyze and evaluate what could be an Enterprise 2.0 strategy applied to their business, its potential benefits, changes and support they need to operate within the organization.

This initial step can only take place with the top management, as well as the adoption is done then in an organic way, management must be aware of the challenges and are the motor of the major changes.

Building on its long experience in the field, a senior consultant will lead the day in collaboration with the CIO or CEO/COO, and will share its know-how and feedback to make a first diagnosis from company business examples and concrete ideas.

If your goal is to reach a better performance of your organization, contact us as soon as possible to plan the day.

(*) Excluding travel and accommodation outside Paris (France) area. Remote sessions can also be organized.

Examgeneral.com is dedicated to the creation of tests or exams online, whatever their field of activity. You can be a teacher, a school, a university, a business, an administration, in short any structure which needs to create tests or exams online and have taken by students, colleagues, employees , etc … examgeneral.com offers a platform dedicated to the creation and taken of these tests.

By default a easy mode allows you to do everything in one step: creating the exam, retrieving the URL and giving it to who will take the exam. You can also create public exams, which will feed the public database of examgeneral and will enable everyone to take public tests in english, mathematics, and any other idea that you will wish to make it public.

But there is also an expert mode, to be activated in the preferences of the “teacher”, which lets you manage classes, assign examinations for these classes, manage courses themselves divided into various examinations, etc… In short examgeneral.com provides a comprehensive management environment for online test and exam craation, where students and teachers will benefit from sophisticated dashboards to monitor their respective progress.

What’s the difference from the numerous already existing online test websites? First it is an open and free website, professional, and hence the mere creation of online testing, we come to the management of classes, students, statistics, deadlines taken examinations, comparison between results, friends social network, etc … All this for free in its public consumer version, without limits. Will only pay the organizations that manage large-scale multiple classes, professors, students, courses, etc … with specific management tools which will be dedicated to them. But it will be for the next version.

Feel free to visit the site and make it known around you. And if you have any feedback, you can share it with the community of users (it is emerging …).

From the original idea to the launch of the website

We obviously put our web 2.0 expertise in designing and implementing examgeneral.com. In the beginning, a simple idea from the founders. We worked together to brainstorm, formalize, evaluate the implications and how to make participatory the original idea. We have also worked together on the business model to make the project monetizable in the long term.

Then we set up a dedicated development team, led by one of our project managers and build from our high performance development center in China. The achievement has been based on our agile methodology that emphasizes the interactive relationship with the customer and the delivery of iterative versions (very short cycles between 1 and 3 weeks max) to promote the dynamic design and guarante a common vision from the beginning to the end of the project.

It is important also to note that hosting is made on the Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure. It is a know-how we have developed very early at Kimind and that we make available to our customers. The scalability is guaranteed at all times and costs are 100% proportional to the actual consumption of CPU and bandwidth.

First, a private alpha was built, a necessary step because the original idea had no functional specifications and we had everything to build and demonstrate. Then the following versions, like this first beta version, can be realised like packages, now that the functional perimeter is fully well defined. This is one of the forces key points of Kimind to be able to engage in this way on projects from start to finish.

Feel free to contact us directly if you have any questions or needs similar achievements that you would like us to cover.

We also hope that 2009 will be the year where companies have understood and triggered the revolution of Enterprise 2.0, for their biggest profits and to help them to override this crisis we are in since 2008.

Because it is by investing, in becoming more productive, more competitive, more transparent, more social and more innovative than our companies can move up. And all these qualities are possible only through a real (r)evolution towards enterprise 2.0.

We are eager to accompany you.

Miguel Membrado
Founder & CEO

Thank you for cooperation.

OUTLINE

Miguel Membrado

Founder & CEO
membrado@kimind.com

23 août 2007

Miguel Membrado

Serial entrepreneur & Consultant
ErgoSum in 1989 (Paris)

Search Engine & Document Image Processing Software

Mayetic in 1996 (Paris)

Collaborative Workspaces, #2 worldwide on the Internet
250,000 users, 45,000 workspaces, 100 countries, 14,000 organizations

Netcipia in 2006 (Palo Alto)

Participative Business Ecosystem (free wiki-blogs)
Online Content Monetization

Kimind Consulting in 2007 (Paris/London)

Web 2.0 & Enterprise 2.0 Consulting & Services

Kimind Consulting

Entreprise 2.0

Consulting & Services to large companies
Enterprise blogging, participative project management, radical transparency, new participative customers relations, unleashing innovation and competitivity, agile management, …

Web 2.0

Consulting, Services & Coaching to startups
Online identity & reputation, blogosphere influence, participative strategies, Web 2.0 business plans & business models, start-up management, …

3 revolutions since 2000

Globalization 3.0
Web 2.0
Radical Transparency

Globalization 3.0

Empowers individuals
The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
Empowers individuals
10 forces inTowards Enterprise 2.0cluding :

Connectivity
Workflow
Uploading & communities
Offshoring
In-forming
The Steroïds (Digital, Personal, Mobile, Virtual)

…
Web 2.0

Unleash People Interaction
3 dimensions of Web 2.0

Social

People centric
User Generated Content
Participation

Business

the web as a platform
For working and exchanging

Technological

Ajax, Web Services, Widgets, Mashups, …

The long tail

The long tail – derivatives
A political long tail? 

Blogging

Blogging
Blogging – figures

User Generated Content

YouTube
FlickR
Del.icio.us
Wikipedia
Oh My News

Social Networking

LinkedIn

THE professional network

MySpace

100 million users in 2 years

FaceBook

THE phenomenon
100,000 new users/day
50% daily active users!!
Viral marketing engine

NING

To create its own social network

+ 746 other startups…

And…

3D collaborative worlds
Recommandation websites
Participative e-commerce websites
Customizable home pages
Job 2.0
P2P banking
Etc…

Web 2.0 has induced new usages

Information production
Participation, interaction, communication
Mass collaboration
Private life sharing
Seeking the truth
Relationship
Content aggregation
Collective intelligence emerges by links and knowledge accumulation

Web 2.0 has induced new rules

Continuous experimentation
Direct discussion with the market
Global business with small teams
Not so much capital
New management style
…

Radical Transparency

The naked company
Before = Secret as a value
After = Transparency as a value

Reverse the relation to the information

« Ideas don’t have worth, execution is everything »

Strong examples

GoldCorps Inc.

Gold maps publicy published

SAP

Partner Business Ecosystem fully transparent

Microsoft

4,000 public blogs

Redfin

Management difficulties publicly revealed

Secret is dead

Everything will be known one day
Faster and faster
Global memory
Google is no more a search engine, it is a reputation engine
Online identity & reputation
Crisis management
Truth

Impacts

Professional Life
Private life
Political life (democracy 2.0)
Associative life
…

Towards the Entreprise 2.0

From Collaboration to Participation?
4 steps

The end of files/e-mails era
Participation vs Collaboration
Forget the control
Integrate clients, partners and subcontractors

The end of files/e-mails era

Replace files by
Online content production (Google Apps, Wikis, Blogs, etc…)
Acting online
Collaborating online
Replace e-mail collaboration by
One « container » by project (a wiki)
Capitalize ALL the information
E-mail retrieve it alert or input mechanism status
Persistant Instant Messaging

Participation vs Collaboration

Collaboration is to difficult!
Participation is easy 
Enterprise blogging
Inside or outside communication
Project blogging
Communities of practice
1 project = (at least) 1 wiki
Participative watching and bookmarking
80% participation – 20% collaboration
Self-service audios and videos repositories

Forget the control

Knowledge emerges by itself
Information sharing
Flat hierarchies
Non-structured information
Awareness
Autonomy
Open discussions
Mobility
Mindshift
…

Integrate customers, partners and subcontractors

Radical transparency
Documentations
Wikis
Blogging
Communities
Open discussions

…

Benefits

Innovation
Competitivity
Collective Intelligence
Collective efficiency
Employee loyalty
Customer loyalty
Talent magnet

Conclusion

A new era thanks to techno / social / business convergence
Mandatory usage to understand
We are in the momentum
Transparency / Participation / Collaboration
Continuous experimentation

• institutional pages presenting the company and our different offers
• posts about daily news available from the home page allowing our customers and our prospects to be in permanent contact with us.

Kimind is choosing, obviously, to be transparent. Participation and collective intelligence are our key factors of development, so you are totally free to comment and interact with us through all the pages of our web site.

Kimind has also created a social bookmarking web site, Kimind News Community, to allow french people disseminated all around the world to share pertinent information about web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, sustainability and green tech information. 2.0 and green concepts are the heart of the new Silicon Valley business. We think that it is fundamental to share this valuers between us. So, don’t hesitate to participate