Earn permission to fix it: Sameer Patel, Sovos Group

If your E2.0 funding requests keep hitting a brick wall, maybe you just haven’t paid your dues. “Until you explain what’s wrong with the way it is now, you haven’t earned permission to fix it,” says Sameer Patel, co-founder of Sovos Group. A consultant who specializes in boosting business performance using social tools, Sameer’s client list includes Ingres, Sun Microsystems, KPMG and McKesson HBOC. Tune in to Collaboration Pizza to hear his views on how vendors and buyers miss the boat in their approach to social computing, how employers will measure individual performance in the new collaborative workplace, and behind-the-scenes political obstacles to changing systems. Live Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 3:30 pm ET or download anytime.