Demonstrating Yammer’s Business Value
This post originally appeared on Janus Boye’s LinkedIn on July 2, 2015. “What can you do to create a flourishing and responsive Yammer service at your organization? How do you get your co-workers to embrace the platform and prove its business value to senior management? Lesley Crook, IC Digital Lean Strategist and speaker at J. […]
Transform the World of Work Through Inspired Leadership
Are you leading workforce and leadership transformation? Tasked with crafting new ways to drive business forward across all avenues (technology, culture, and leadership), HR professionals and executives are spearheading innovation in the workforce. Gloria Burke, senior director and Andy Jankowski, founder and managing director of Enterprise Strategies, bring inspiring thought leadership into the opening keynote […]
Back To The Basics: The Intranet Is Not Dead
“Anyone that says intranets are dead, or can be replaced by enterprise social network alternatives, is ignoring the basic needs that an intranet fulfills…all of which our study showed were important to employees.” –Andy Jankowski Did we statistically prove the case for a social intranet? YES! As a guest speaker at the IABC World Conference in San […]
Gamification: It’s Elementary
When I look back at my elementary school days, one thing gives me immediate anxiety: math board races. For third graders, it only takes a few runs through a multiplication table for teachers to notice disengagement. Much to the chagrin of my passive self, teachers would often give the hardworking class a “treat” of having […]
Why No One Is Logging On To Your Enterprise Social Network
One of the biggest buzzwords in social business today is adoption. Executives and employees may be willing to try a new tool or platform once, but many businesses are struggling to retain those users and ensure ongoing engagement. If you or your team are having trouble growing adoption of your enterprise social network, it’s likely […]
Top 15 Characteristics For Community Managers
As businesses continue to roll out enterprise social networks to help employees become more productive, communicate more effectively, and collaborate more efficiently, the need for community management is more vital than ever. Community Management is not just another task to delegate to an already overworked communications team or an intern–it requires specific characteristics to ensure […]
The Remote Workforce: Boom or Bust
Boom or Bust? There are two sides to every story. Remote working is a topic I feel very passionate about. My position… boom. When I asked my good friend, and accomplished CEO, Carolyn Douglas to share her thoughts on our blog, I had no idea that they would be divergent from my own. That said, […]
The Importance Of An Enterprise Social Strategy: Are You Driving Blind Through Social?
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ” – Eleanor Roosevelt As one of the most admired first ladies of all time, it cannot be argued that Eleanor Roosevelt had a skill and craftiness for coining a phrase. From a young age we are instructed […]
What do Headlining Bands say about a Technology Conference?
Somewhere along the way technology conferences became music venues. Anyone catch Green Day at Salesforce’s Dreamforce last year? What about Maroon 5 at Oracle’s OpenWorld? As I am writing this, U2 is playing at Apple’s iPhone 6 Event. And let’s not even talk about South by Southwest (SXSW) determined to keep both conferences and Austin, […]
Intranets Reimagined: Have Intranets Become Like Electricity?
CO-AUTHOR TYLER SAUERTEIG In partnership with the Worldwide Intranet Challenge, we’ve applied econometric principles to the results of over 200 intranet surveys and statistically pinpointed which intranet attributes most impact a user’s perception of their intranet. This fourth post in a seven week series is focused on the data analysis of “intranet performance” factors – showing which […]