HiveLive CEO John Kembel to Speak at AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford
Speech to Discuss Achieving Business Agility and Innovation Through Customer Communities
Boulder, Colorado, July 17, 2008 – HiveLive™, Inc., a leading enterprise social software platform provider, today announced that CEO John Kembel will speak on the main stage at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford on July 24th. Kembel’s speech will discuss how the future of the new high-performance company is dependent on the quality of their customer conversations. Kembel will include several examples of companies demonstrating business agility and innovation as a result of customer conversations facilitated through an online customer community.
News Facts:- Kembel’s speech is titled "Achieving Business Agility through Online Customer Communities."
- The speech is scheduled for July 24th, 1:30 pm, at McCaw Hall on the Stanford campus.
- John Kembel is a Consulting Associate Professor and Strategy Board Member for the new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (the d.school). His latest company, HiveLive, offers best-in-breed, flexible customer communities that enable a culture of innovation and customer-centeredness that’s inspired by design thinking.
Quote from John Kembel, CEO, HiveLive:
"I’m looking forward to providing perspective on the importance of including customer communities in guiding the new high-performance company. Facilitating customer conversations that are relevant and adaptable will enable companies to better innovate and compete."
Links:
| John Kembel's Blog | community.hivelive.com/blogs/social-by-design |
| HiveLive Homepage | hivelive.com |
| Stanford Innovation Summit | alwayson.goingon.com |
| Photo of John Kembel | hivelive.com/images/photos/john2_800.jpg |
| Follow John Kembel on Twitter | twitter.com/jkembel |
| John Kembel’s Bio | twitter.com/jkembel |
About HiveLive
HiveLive, Inc. is the first company to deliver an enterprise social software platform that integrates social networks with information networks for business-focused communities. The company's on-demand, web-based platform is powered by a new Web 2.0 building block called a "Hive," which can be configured to support a nearly infinite range of community activities such as concept brainstorms, product feedback, design reviews, voting centers, and more. The patent-pending technology uniquely enables companies to build communities of depth, and forge tighter bonds with their customers, partners, and employees to foster innovation, creativity, loyalty, and trust. HiveLive is privately held with headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, visit www.hivelive.com.
