So, I’m currently down in Cadiz, southern Spain taking in part in Orange’s second Partner Camp this year. The camp is a 3 day event aimed at sharing, discussing and un-peeling Orange’s world, it’s customers and it’s business with a view to information exchange with suppliers/partners etc.
I was also at the Partner Camp held in May which was in Sarasota, Florida.
At LBi, Orange is one of my key clients and I really enjoy working with them. The work we do is mostly web and/or application based and we’ve been working right across the business at all levels for some years.
We do a lot of work with both Orange Group in the UK and with the various divisions of FT, based in Paris. now so our knowledge of where this converging business is going, really is front line.
Events like this are great because they give us an insight into other parts of Orange’s business that we don’t get to see, so we shore up our understanding even further. but what I really like is the open, discursive and collaborative nature of the sessions.
People are here to learn about Orange and Orange is here to listen.
There are a bunch of suppliers here, content, service and technology, whose reason for being here is different to ours – i.e. they want to sell something to Orange, but even so this makes for interesting observation.
Some topics for this blog are occurring to me as I attend sessions on Web 2.0, product and service convergence, product/service ecosystems, HSDPA, user generated content etc etc. The topics themselves aren’t new to me, of course, but seeing how an organisation of this size is adapting itself to a community economy is.
Being here is invaluable to my understanding as to what motivates this business and what the challenges are as well as providing me with the forum to discuss what we do and how we do it with my key clients within the company.
As we engage on day-to-day projects and issues, events like Partner Camp provide a useful forum for brokering conversations aimed at doing things better. It’s an open chat.
Good stuff is coming from this. More later.
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