The Social Business Intranet Of The Future Is Here!
Intranets Reimagined! The Internet of Customers has been the prevailing theme throughout Dreamforce 2013 in San Francisco this week–but what are the emerging trends and technologies for internal communication and collaboration? In the session on “The Intranet of the Future Is Here! Transforming Your Business From Inside Out,” Enterprise Strategies Founder Andy Jankowski co-presented with Lori Nitschke of Marsh […]
Process Efficiency Is The Great Differentiator
Social Tools and Technologies Every good salesperson or sales organization knows that sales is a process. Social tools and technologies enhance that process by offering opportunities for improved agility and increased connections, both on the front-end and back-end. Process efficiency is the great differentiator of social business, as Client Advisor Christine McLeod shares in this clip from […]
Enterprise Social Networks & Senior Management
Senior executives are increasingly recognizing the value of implementing of social tools and processes in the workplace. Due to lack of time or conflicting priorities, though, many of these senior leaders do not participate in these social networks themselves. Getting Senior Executives Involved in Enterprise Social Networks Today the question for many corporations is […]
Should Insurance Companies Be Adopting Social Business?
Social Business has become a buzzword across all industries. When asked, most Insurance Industry business leaders can confidently recite a few of the compelling benefits Social Business provides. The ones I hear most often are: increased employee collaboration and knowledge sharing, more transparent and open business processes and communication, identification of expertise across business and […]
Free Download: Enterprise Social Networks as an Enabler of Collaboration
In the Winter 1999 edition of the California Management Review, Peter Drucker stated, “The most valuable asset of a 21st century organization will be its knowledge workers and its productivity.” Drucker’s Prediction is Proving to be True. Demanding economic factors and intensely fierce global competition have firms scrambling to allocate their scarce resources in an […]
Key Considerations For Non-Profits To Profit From Social Media
Everyone knows that businesses are rushing to cash in on the popularity of social media. However, trends show that non-profit organizations are also capitalizing on social media. In a recent study, Craig Newmark discovered that 92% of the top non-profits in the United States are online, almost identical to the 94% of corporations using some […]
How Job Seekers view Enterprise Social Media
Imagine you were browsing one of those job web sites. (I know, this is purely hypothetical since everyone I know is extremely happy and content with their current job. But let’s play pretend for a moment.) Now imagine you came across this ad: Wanted: Motivated applicants for a challenging yet rewarding career. College degree or […]
Foursquare for the Enterprise? Potential uses discussed.
If enterprise forecasters such as Hutch Carpenter of Spigit are correct, location-based technologies will enter the business place as part of enterprise social media tools in 2012. Alex Williams discusses the issue in a ReadWriteWeb post back in 2010, crediting Carpenter for recognizing the two-year lapse in adoption by businesses of popular Enterprise 2.0 tools. […]