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By Paul Gragtmans – November 19, 2013 – Published under: Collaboration Accelerators ,Recent Articles from ET Group on Collaboration A corporate communications framework is a structured way to look at the communications tools your organization is currently using. What tools are you using? Are they the right tools? If […]
“The task is…not so much to see what no one else has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” – Erwin Schrodinger brain_behavior2 Changing human behavior in an organization is a large-scale and seemingly daunting undertaking. Or is it? Helping people […]
buslike Many proposals for social business initiatives have been greeted with responses of “where’s the ROI?” from sceptics. But this is a somewhat simplistic argument to have. Yes, it is hard to measure the ROI of a vague proposal to “become a social business” or “connect with our employees”. […]
20131119_1 Bill Gates made a bad decision early in his career. In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that some other people made even worse mistakes, we might not ever have heard of him. Yes, Gates was and is brilliant, and he worked hard. Malcolm Gladwell, author of […]
Video traffic has increased significantly, with large companies experiencing an increase of 70% annually according to Cisco research. In its own research, Steelcase found that people get distracted when they see themselves on video: 72% of workers notice their physical appearance on the screen when on a video conference […]
Image: Jason A. Howie/Flickr Deloitte predicted that by the end of 2013 90% of Fortune 500 companies will have partially or fully deployed an enterprise social network, a 70% increase over 2011. Here we are at the end of 2013, and I think that number has been nailed many […]
Why do so few companies capture the full value of social technologies? There’s no doubt organizations have begun to realize significant value from largely external uses of social. 1 1. Roxane Divol, David Edelman, and Hugo Sarrazin, “ Demystifying social media ,” McKinsey Quarterly , April 2012. Yet internal […]
It’s not surprising, really, that we’ve reached this point; despite all the advantages that a more social, open approach to enabling collaboration brings, the reality is that, when it comes down to it, we don’t just collaborate for the sake of collaborating, we do so in the context of what we are trying to get done, as part and parcel of the tasks we are carrying out. One of the key things that differentiates the use of social technologies in a business context from public, consumer social networking services is that there is a purpose to using these tools – we have a job, a role, and everything we do at work is centred around that. We don’t use these tools in the same, open-ended way at work that we might do in a personal setting – where there is interest and value in simply browsing through information other people have posted for hours at a time – we are typically looking for something specific, be that the answer to a problem we are trying to solve, the person who can provide the skills to solve our problem, or simply feedback on what we are doing.
Angela Ashenden As we enter a phase where social collaboration is beginning to mature as a concept, and is being increasingly accepted by businesses as a way to help make positive changes to the way they work and the culture they aspire to develop, one of the most fascinating […]
Rob Webb, CIO, TBM Council A few weeks ago, I caught up with Robert Webb, former CIO of Hilton Worldwide and Equifax before that. Rob has recently been named CEO of TBM (Technology Business Management Council ), a non-profit organization of CIOs who work together to define a decision-making […]
If you listen to or read the rhetoric from the new breed of vendors, you’ll often hear them say something that was encapsulated well in something Stuart Lauchlan reported upon when discussing business intelligence . A quote from Brad Peters, Birst’s CEO serves […]