“If I had listened to what my customers said they wanted, I would have developed a faster horse.” These words from Henry Ford are perhaps more valid than ever in our current world of the Digital Business. If one is used to IT serving as a means to simply […]
Why We Use Social Media in Our Personal Lives — But Not for Work
by Tammy Erickson | 12:05 PM February 16, 2012 “We’ve spent a fortune on collaborative technology, but no one is using it … or if they are, it’s for purely social, non-productive activities.” Sound familiar? It’s a lament I’ve heard many times from organizations over the past several years. Most […]
IT Has To Deliver Great Tools — and Teach People to Use Them
In a workplace that is increasingly collaborative and knowledge-intensive, many CIOs plan to create value by delivering these capabilities effectively. No wonder collaboration and analysis tools make up the single largest category of IT project spend. But much of this value is being lost because employees lack the skills […]
IT Doesn’t Matter (to CEOs)
20130816_4 by Robert Plant | 11:00 AM August 15, 2013 In 2003 Nicholas Carr wrote a provocative article for HBR titled “ IT Doesn’t Matter ,” in which he stated: “IT is best seen as the latest in a series of broadly adopted technologies that have reshaped industry over the […]
Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?
20130827_3 With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. But here is the daunting and exciting thing: we’re […]
Change Management: 5 Best Practice Techniques to Drive Adoption
Print Email Page RSS Feeds Posted Date: 10/16/2013 By Chris Morrison, COO, TradeStone Software. Technology has brought a wave of innovation to the retail world over the past 25 years. It has also given retailers greater visibility into and control over their products than they ever thought possible. This technology […]
How To Justify Enterprise Social Networking
Most business IT projects require a return on investment (ROI) to get approved (security is sometimes an exception). How can you calculate that with a nebulous and rapidly growing area such as enterprise social networking tools? One key strategy: make sure the tool is replacing a specific and identified […]
10 Keys to Pervasive Video Conferencing
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Evolution of the networked enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey results
Over a surprisingly brief period, the use of social tools and technologies has grown from limited experimentation at the edge of corporate practice to what’s now the mainstream. But after this strong initial uptake, many companies find themselves at a crossroads: if they want to capture a new wave […]
How companies can use social networks to learn who knows what
Meetings around the watercooler or over lunch are as traditional as the workplace suit and tie. But today, companies are looking for more innovative ways to bring employees together. Connecting people with different kinds of knowledge fosters new services and ideas, says Paul Leonardi, a professor of communication at […]