Innovation & Social Media Inside the Enterprise

Recently, the Wall Street Journal noted that Facebook is transforming journalism. This is a great segway into something we’ve been watching for a while. Social media is not just for social consumers anymore. Journalists can use ‘friends’ on Facebook as sources without filtering or the usual controlled introductions so common with media firms in the past. A publishing company is therefore using social media to become more efficient.

Similarly, the texting movement where ideas can come from the masses is taking hold in the enterprise, in several intertwined ways. See the video clip below regarding Financial Advisors who “tweet” using Twitter. The Twitter network is helping them connect better with clients. (See our blog, “Twittering in Congress”)

New digital imaging products such as Flip video and Canon’s new long-recording video / still cameras mean more people can contribute and share ideas among friends on social networks, but also among colleagues in the enterprise.

Finally, ‘crowd sourcing’ of ideas using open source computer code development, blended with the ideas above means good ideas spread rapidly. (See our blog “…Software Advertising & Innovation). In particular, open source technology is rapidly being adopted in emerging markets. These markets have less to lose by doing things the old way, and much to gain in innovation by being open to free exchanges of ideas. The developed world must embrace these concepts or be left behind. Brazil and South Africa are two examples. This has helped ‘lubricate the flow of information,’ and save money. Pioneers are often the last to get on the wave. North America is actually the slowest in adopting open source.

The result is an innovation renaissance just waiting to happen outside corporate firewalls. We predict that the companies whose walls do not come down will be left behind, and those enterprises that intelligently embrace social media, open source, imaging of ideas and texting tweets will thrive.

To learn more about how social media can help your organization enhance their customers’ experiences, facilitate learning and improve employee productivity contact www.noworldborders.com

Below are for video clips that explain these concepts. They can be blended together powerfully in social media. (See the No World Borders blog entry Innovators in Social Media).

Click the play button below to view “Facebook Transforming Journalism”

Click the play button below to view “When Financial Managers Tweet”

click the play button below to view “Flip Video vs. Canon”

Click the play button below to view “Open Source in Emerging Markets”

Michael F. Arrigo

Michael Arrigo, an expert witness, and healthcare executive, brings four decades of experience in the software, financial services, and healthcare industries. In 2000, Mr. Arrigo founded No World Borders, a healthcare data, regulations, and economics firm with clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, hospital, surgical center, physician group, diagnostic imaging, genetic testing, health I.T., and health insurance markets. His expertise spans the federal health programs Medicare and Medicaid and private insurance. He advises Medicare Advantage Organizations that provide health insurance under Part C of the Medicare Act. Mr. Arrigo serves as an expert witness regarding medical coding and billing, fraud damages, and electronic health record software for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has valued well over $1 billion in medical billings in personal injury liens, malpractice, and insurance fraud cases. The U.S. Court of Appeals considered Mr. Arrigo's opinion regarding loss amounts, vacating, and remanding sentencing in a fraud case. Mr. Arrigo provides expertise in the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, Medicare LCDs, anti-trust litigation, medical intellectual property and trade secrets, HIPAA privacy, health care electronic claim data Standards, physician compensation, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark law, the Affordable Care Act, False Claims Act, and the ARRA HITECH Act. Arrigo advises investors on merger and acquisition (M&A) diligence in the healthcare industry on transactions cumulatively valued at over $1 billion. Mr. Arrigo spent over ten years in Silicon Valley software firms in roles from Product Manager to CEO. He was product manager for a leading-edge database technology joint venture that became commercialized as Microsoft SQL Server, Vice President of Marketing for a software company when it grew from under $2 million in revenue to a $50 million acquisition by a company now merged into Cincom Systems, hired by private equity investors to serve as Vice President of Marketing for a secure email software company until its acquisition and multi $million investor exit by a company now merged into Axway Software S.A. (Euronext: AXW.PA), and CEO of one of the first cloud-based billing software companies, licensing its technology to Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS). Later, before entering the healthcare industry, he joined Fortune 500 company Fidelity National Financial (NYSE: FNF) as a Vice President, overseeing eCommerce solutions for the mortgage banking industry. While serving as a Vice President at Fortune 500 company First American Financial (NYSE: FAF), he oversaw eCommerce and regulatory compliance technology initiatives for the top ten mortgage banks and led the Sarbanes Oxley Act Section 302 internal controls I.T. audit for the company, supporting Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. Mr. Arrigo earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. Before that, he studied computer science, statistics, and economics at the University of California, Irvine. His post-graduate studies include biomedical ethics at Harvard Medical School, biomedical informatics at Stanford Medical School, blockchain and crypto-economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and training as a Certified Professional Medical Auditor (CPMA). Mr. Arrigo is qualified to serve as a director due to his experience in healthcare data, regulations, and economics, his leadership roles in software and financial services public companies, and his healthcare M&A diligence and public company regulatory experience. Mr. Arrigo is quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Kaiser Health News, Consumer Affairs, National Public Radio (NPR), NBC News Houston, USA Today / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Medical Economics, Capitol ForumThe Daily Beast, the Lund Report, Inside Higher Ed, New England Psychologist, and other press and media outlets. He authored a peer-reviewed article regarding clinical documentation quality to support accurate medical coding, billing, and good patient care, published by Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and published in Healthcare I.T. News. Mr. Arrigo serves as a member of the board of directors of a publicly traded company in the healthcare and data analytics industry, where his duties include: member, audit committee; chair, compensation committee; member, special committee.

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