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Most Businesses Lack Fundamental Understanding of Enterprise Social Collaboration Tech

With so many travelers on the High Tech Highway so frequently on the move, employers and workers alike are seeking new ways to stay connected to one another and encourage collaboration. While social collaboration tools have gained popularity recently, […]

Choosing Social Collaboration Tools? Focus on Business Needs
According to a recent TechTarget article, “the dirty secret when it comes to social networking is that many organizations feel pressured to jump on the bandwagon without a clear idea of how enterprise social collaboration tools will actually help them.” But in order to make social collaboration successful, organizations must approach the buying process as a business process change.

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Social Collaboration: A Work In Progress

It’s been almost two years since I wrote a column titled “Down To Business: Why Some People ‘Dread’ Collaboration,” in which I cited a body of research that showed unsatisfactory user experiences with social networking and other Enterprise 2.0 technologies. The Corporate Executive Board’s Shvetank Shah weighed in that […]

One respondent to our recent Enterprise Social Networking Vendor Evaluation Survey agreed: “The most challenging aspect of social networking for the enterprise is understanding the technology as it pertains to optimizing existing workflows. We tend to try to adapt social software to meet our (outdated) business processes, instead of seeing ‘how things could/should be’ and adjusting processes to take advantage of technology.”

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Take Social Collaboration To Next Level

Take Social Collaboration To Next Level

Commentary 10 Social Business Leaders for 2013 Going it alone doesn’t work anymore, for companies or for individuals. With technology changing almost daily and increasing pressure to perform, success — for the individual or the organization — will depend upon the ability to amplify learning and accelerate performance improvement […]