Enterprise Social Networks, Building the Collaborative Enterprise
Tools that support social business initiatives fit into several different software categories / markets. Social business is a very broad term that includes all the enterprise social activities, internal and external. I find that often people understand a single perspective…
Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with [...]
Organizing for social business: The issues
How best can employees and managers adapt to today’s changing and increasingly social workplace? This has become one of the central questions as organizations look at social computing as a new primary channel in their organization, both amongst their workers as well as for their customers and business partners. While we often see traditional areas [...]
Conversations
Businesses operate because of conversations, this is not some great new revelation. We like to talk about how social is about enabling conversations like it’s something revolutionary and new but that’s just not true. I was preparing to give a…
Communication and Collaboration in a Social Business World
There’s a pretty good argument that a big part of the social business transformation is simply using new and more effective ways to communicate. In fact that’s really one of the fundamental advances that accompanied the adoption of the Internet….
Work is Communication
Work relies on, no, consists of two things: brains and hands communication Brains and hands: The appropriate and best-possible ability must be available, that’s a good start. But what can brains and hands do unless they know what to do?…
The Changing World of Communications
This week in the New York Times an article and a follow on post on the NYT Bits Blog talked about online email use and a report from ComScore that shows a sharp decline in email use among several age…
Oracle’s Influencer Relations: Mom Are We There Yet?
A fellow Enterprise Irregular posed this question to the EI’s relative to the maturity of the industry and the acceptance of bloggers @ Oracle Open World:Especially after the Workday session where 20 of us from small and large firms all…
Well-spent Workday @ Workday–Here’s the Firehose
Yesterday I was privileged to sit in a group of 20 or so analysts (many of them fellow Enterprise Irregulars) invited to Workday’s first ever Technology Summit. For short background, Workday’s original call to fame came from it’s Founder, Dave Duffield, an Enterprise Software Legend, who built PeopleSoft from nothing to a position of challenging [...]
Those Who Can’t Do, Teach. The Hidden Dangers of Email.
Oh, the irony. Communispond, the Agency that excels sending the same horrendously dumb email year by year actually has the ***s to hold a webinar titled: Writing Skills: The Hidden Dangers of Email: Emails are so quick and easy to write – and it’s so simple to hit the Send button. But most of us [...]
