Six years ago, NYU professor and author Clay Shirky, affirmed that “the problem is filter failure, not information overload.” The problem of having more information around than what we can…
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Aaron Kim
Aaron Kim is the Head of Digital Social Collaboration at the Royal Bank of Canada, and led the efforts to bring social business and social collaboration to an organization of 79,000 employees. He’s also been a public speaker at several events across the globe, from the Web 2.0 Expo to JiveWorld, from Singapore to Barcelona.
He has a passion for innovation and for making work smarter, more meaningful and rewarding to all. Born and raised in Brazil, to a Korean father and Japanese mother, he also volunteers in several diversity initiatives, inside and outside RBC.
In the past, he worked as a consultant both at IBM Canada and Unisys Brazil, having played the roles of solutions architect, Basel II analyst, performance engineer, Java programmer, Unix administrator and environmental biologist.
He holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universidade de São Paulo.
He lives in Toronto, Canada, is married to Tania and have a son, Lucas.
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What is the big deal about the modern social business and social collaboration platforms? Is there anything unique in them that can’t be done better and faster using the toolset…
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