Talking the talk. Walking the walk

One thing I’ve always known about Steve Papermaster, he doesn’t like to waste time. While we here in the blogosphere have been grousing about slow user adoption, Steve decided to do something about it and went out and acquired The Concours Group, which we announced today. The Concours Group was founded by Dr. Ron Christman who originally created CSC Index’s Research and Advisory Group which for those of us who were around at the time, was an extremely influential thought leadership powerhouse that spawned 90s icons such as Michael Hammer and Jim Champy of Re-engineering fame. The Concours Group continues to host learning forums with leading gurus and thinkers for its blue chip client list. Leaders like Paul Saffo and, yes, even Tom Davenport are among a long list of industry luminaries who are engaged with Concours to explore how the Next Generation Enterprise will fundamentally be be shifting and realigning to mesh with the new participatory web.

While the emergent, collaborative, user-departmental-driven changes start percolating upwards, we will be evangelizing, lecturing, and golfing our way downwards by enlightening CXOs with the endless possibilities afforded by enterprise 2.0 and on demand alternatives.

Keepin’ it real. Stay tuned.