Since the birth of social, or at least the proliferation of microblogging, there has been the ongoing arguments about e-mail vs social streams (some listed below ). On the one hand you have the social media camp predicting the death of e-mail. On the other hand you have the […]
Redefining Collaboration
We all face a complex future requiring greater degrees of innovation and coordination. We need better collaboration. This is one of the promises of digital technologies such as analytics, mobility and particularly social media. However while the world has grown complex, the concept of collaboration remains stubbornly simple. Sharing […]
Three Types Of Social Network
Three Types of Social Network
On Leadership and Collaboration
Collaborate A 2009 IMD publication makes the observation that: There is a growing tendency in business to recognize that pooling the ideas, resources, commitment and efforts of many is more effective than relying on the few best individuals. The publication goes on to analyze the way collaboration was utilized at […]
Is it time to bin the Enterprise Social Network?
As anyone who follows my ramblings will know, I’m a huge believer in the value of the Enterprise Social Network and more specifically the Analytics that can be applied on top. So what’s my point? Am I doing a 180 degree? Definitely not 🙂 Last week I had the […]
The major enterprise collaboration platforms and their mobile clients
Previous | Next Image 1 of 19 Last week I examined the leading and/or most established players in enterprise collaboration. This gallery summarizes the major options available today while also taking a look at their mobile capabilities, which are now relatively sophisticated except for a surprising omission. Each enterprise […]
Social Enterprise 2013 – The End of the Beginning!?
Recent discussions in my network show some concerns regarding the job changes of experts in the field of social business. For example Rawn Shah, ex-Social Business visionary at IBM and writer-in-residence at Forbes, posed the question: “ Is social business as a field dying, or is it heading for […]
Social Business is Dead! Long Live What’s Next! – Chris Heuer
shutterstock_111469742 Guest post by Chris Heuer, CEO, Alynd ( @chrisheuer ) When I heard Marc Benioff was giving up on pursuit of “Social Enterprise” as the focus of Salesforce’s marketing, I remarked to my Deloitte colleagues that “Social Business has won the day.” I felt vindicated after being an […]
Employee engagement, social business, collaboration: are we getting it?
At last week’s CCE2013 event, a lively panel chaired by Alan Lepofsky addressed the topic of age in the workplace. By that I mean the panel opined on a not too distant future when there could be five generations in the workplace. […]
What We Talk About When We Talk About “Social”
by Nilofer Merchant | 2:00 PM February 20, 2013 Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Do you know? If you don’t know, you might be using the wrong term in the wrong context. Which doesn’t […]