Creating A Total Digital Experience: Recap Of PIVOT 2013.
Innovation. This was the prevailing theme throughout all the interviews, sessions, and presentations at Pivot Conference, the social business conference on October 15-16 curated by Brian Solis. Thought leaders and industry experts shared ideas, insights, and predictions centered around the question “What are the next steps for companies to create the total digital experience?” Both […]
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 […]
Don’t Forget Your Social Roadmap!
Last month, I was in New York City for business meetings. I’ve been to NYC several times before–I love the city, the shopping, and the food! However, I’ve never been able to master the subway. I’m directionally challenged anyway, and the subway continues to be a massive source of confusion and frustration for me. Without […]
Sales 2.0 Conference
“Sales 2.0 is all about aligning people, processes, and technology,” says Sales 2.0 Conference host Gerhard Gschwandtner. As the number one industry event devoted to excellence in leveraging SaaS technologies, Enterprise Strategies is proud to announce that Advisor Christine McLeod will be presenting at the April 8-9 event in San Francisco, CA. Sales 2.0 Conference […]
Will 2013 Be The Tipping Point For Social Business Innovation?
The confetti has long since been swept up, and the whirring of commerce has fully begun again as we settle into the New Year. 2013 is promising (yet again) to be the year of social business innovation and change. Will this be the year that social business becomes fully integrated and mainstream? Dion Hinchcliffe, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
6 Reasons Social Enterprise Apps Are Worth Buzzing About
“Social is more than a trend, it is a revolution that is changing the way we work and collaborate,” Chatter Product Marketing Director Dave King told me recently. I admit. I wasn’t necessarily sold on the idea. The business case for replicating popular social networking functionality in a corporate environment seemed dubious at best. Would […]
New Research on Intranet Video Communication
Many thanks to my friends at the Intranet Benchmarking Forum for sponsoring this research – and congratulations on your 10 year anniversary today! Press Release: June 13, 2012, New York, NY As the amount of information and number of channels in our organizations proliferate, internal communicators face an ever-increasing challenge getting effective messages to organizationally and geographically dispersed […]
How Klout Could Transform Enterprise Social Media
Clout used to be a vague term that referred to someone’s influence in general. You could have a lot of clout in certain circles, some clout in general or no clout at all. It was fuzzy and that was fine. That was before Klout. Now — whether you spell it with a “c” or with […]