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Tag: social enterprise
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Social Ideation Finds Ideas Worth Pursuing
IP is not only a product idea. It may also be a better way of doing business, a price model that offers a competitive advantage, or a way to achieve operational efficiencies. Finding the Good Ideas Surfacing and then vetting these ideas represents a serious problem for companies.
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Where the Differences Lie in Enterprise Social Networks
The difficulties that companies have had in deploying enterprise social often start right at the beginning. It’s not hard to understand why choosing a product can be tough since most enterprise social networks look almost identical.
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Collaboration in 2014: 10 Predictions
Networked organizations, personalization and customization, development of collaborative reputations: these trends and more that I predicted for 2013 will still hold true for 2014. But as the cloud and mobile mature, new trends are emerging for 2014.
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3 Enterprise Social Network Threats Community Managers Will Face in 2014
Enterprise Social Network community managers, you thought you had it so good. You’ve deployed your online employee community, and you’re working hard to maintain engagement, drive business value and help employees build relationships that strengthen the company’s informal social network. Your CEO is active (finally!).
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2013 in Review: Intranet Deja Vu All Over Again
Intranet talk appears to be on a three-year hamster wheel in which we have come full circle. So what is it that causes this cycle? It may be caused by the failure of intranet professionals to point to the higher ground — an integrated and holistic employee experience strategy.
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Enterprise Social: Driving Productivity or Driving to Distraction?
Social tools have the potential to increase productivity, engagement and communications. They also hold the potential of turning into an enterprise-wide time suck.
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The Continued Rise of the Purpose Economy
Several weeks ago, there was a lot of buzz surrounding the three-way discussion between myself, Thierry de Baillon and Deb Lavoy. Deb had written a wildly insightful article about the value of intention in socially networked businesses. Thierry put together a well researched and nicely written article on why the "social enterprise concept" is dead.
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IDC: IBM, Jive Lead Shifting Enterprise Social Software Market
Leaving aside the astronomical market growth rate of vendors like IBM, Salesforce or Jive, the market for standalone enterprise social software (ESS) between now and 2017 will be characterized by the evolution of ESS applications into enterprise social networks (ESN) and compound annual growth of 22.
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Interview: Melissa Risteff On NewsGator's Ongoing Quest to 'Make Social Real'
NewsGator found itself in a position that may sound familiar to other businesses: its employees were disengaged. The work was getting done, but there was no emotional connection to it. It was time for a change.
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eXo Puts v4 Online With eXo Cloud General Release
Open source enterprise social collaboration vendor eXo has just announced full, public access to eXo Cloud, which gives users access to the features that were launched with eXo Platform 4 when it was released two months ago.
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(Social) Evolution of Work
When it comes to social technologies in the workplace, there are two major drivers that suggest social (at least the way it is done today) can’t scale: intimacy and stress. As I predicted last year, companies are finally realizing that they need to embrace social in order to stay competitive.
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The Social Enterprise: One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure
The headline grabbed me. The articulate, and passionate argument pulled me in. Too bad the basic premise is obsolete.Thierry de Baillon's brilliantly written article on some early failures of the social enterprise vision has a number of really good points but in the end overreaches in some key areas.
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The Future of Social Business is Paved with (Good) Intentions
There is no such thing as a social business. Social Business is an Intention There’s Enterprise 1.0 over there, and Enterprise 2.0 over there, and we’re all somewhere between the two and some part of that is Social.
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Let's Get Rid of the Social Enterprise
When asked about illustrating the evolution of organizations, I often come up with the famous scene from Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which Indiana Jones casually shoots a swordsman with a single bullet.
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