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Tag: social business tools
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Enterprise Collaboration Platforms and the Elephants in the Room
In the wake of Jive’s $462 million acquisition, the spotlight is once again shining on the steadily expanding enterprise collaboration space. Enterprise collaboration tools have been subsumed under the broader digital workplace umbrella, in many cases moving from standalone solutions to being baked into existing tools.
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Is it Time to Take Off Your Collaboration Training Wheels?
As a parent and a sales executive, it amazes me how similar the issues are that I face in the two worlds.
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Jive Software Acquired by ESW Capital for $462M
Jive Software kicked off its JiveWorld conference this morning with a surprise announcement: ESW Capital has acquired the enterprise collaboration provider for $462 million in cash. The move confirms what many analysts had predicted for Jive in the last few years: a buyout for a company whose value peaked at
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Avoiding the Siren Call of the 'Perfect' Digital Workplace
Since before the turn of the century, people have been looking for a way to make a digital workplace. From portals to collaborative platforms to Enterprise 2.0 tools, a continuous wave of tools has appeared, each seemingly searching for a problem to solve.
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5 Places Where Social Collaboration Tools Help Business Processes
Social and collaboration tools in the workplace get a chance to shine when put to work to improve specific business processes. It's not about transparency for transparency's sake. Or an opportunity for shameless self-promotion.
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Microsoft Evolves Yammer From Stand-Alone Product to Key Part of Office 365 #MSIgnite
ATLANTA — Everyone understand the risks of all work and no play. But the Microsoft executive tasked with product marketing for the company's enterprise social networking service claims too much play is a serious risk to productivity.
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4 Key Components of Thriving Digital Workplaces
The notion of digital business, which Gartner defines as, “the creation of new business designs by blurring the digital and physical worlds,” is top-of-mind for today’s business and IT decision makers.
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Give Collaboration Sticking Power
Organizations know they need to get their employees collaborating and are making significant investments into collaboration tools to support this effort. But then they're left wondering why people still don't rush to use these tools. To help answer this question, let’s understand what powers any organization.
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Your Digital Workplace Mid-Year Health Check
From a technology point of view, the digital workplace industry is thriving. It’s a growing market, that responds to users needs and provides new tools that facilitate new ways of working.
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Gartner: 5 Cool Vendors, 4 Digital Workplace Lessons
This year’s coolest vendors in the digital workplace take an integrated, creative approach to the employee journey, Gartner maintains. The Stamford, Conn.-based research organization concludes that these vendors show potential in strategic partnerships between HR and IT to power the digital workplace, inspiring those teams to chart a new course.
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The Antidote for Digital Workplace Chaos: Governance
We love the digital workplace, with all the potential and advances it offers. But with these benefits comes a dark side, and that dark side is called Digital Workplace Chaos (DWC). Chances are you’ve experienced it yourself.
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Why Collaboration Works for Others, But Not for You
Imagine I told you about a wonderful family vacation I’d just enjoyed. Duly inspired, you book the same hotel, same excursions and visit the same restaurants. But your family finds it a drag. Why? Because your family is different — maybe they don’t like museums, or wanted more nightlife.
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Find Out What Your Employees Think - Now
As unbelievable as it might sound, many large corporations still use the old annual survey to gauge employee engagement. The process goes something like this: Hire a consultant to administer the employee survey. Wait four to six weeks for the firm to compile the data.
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Is Microsoft Building an Outlook Chat App?
Apple, under Steve Jobs leadership, was known for its secrecy — very little was known about the iPhone, for example, before it was officially unveiled. Microsoft, under Satya Nadella’s leadership, may go down in history for its propensity to leak information. There was the acquisition of calendar app Sunrise that
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