Susan Scrupski
Susan has been a writer, analyst, influencer, and entrepreneur covering the IT Services and social collaboration markets for over 25 years. Named as one of Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology” in 2010, her insights have been featured in industry research, as well as mainstream media such as The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC. Her interests are in disruptive applications of technology and the consumerization of IT. A serial entrepreneur, Susan founded Change Agents Worldwide in 2012, and The 2.0 Adoption Council in 2009. Her focus in technology is inspiring enterprise early adopters in their efforts to introduce disruptive technologies and new processes to their worldwide organizations. In the summer of 2014, Susan turned her professional interests and focus toward launching a social impact organization: Big Mountain Data. You can find Susan on LinkedIn, Twitter, G+, and About.Me/SusanScrupski.
What is Your Network Telling You?
I caught up this week with Cai Kjaer whom I’ve known via the social web as one of the founders of Optimice. We used Optimice at Change Agents Worldwide to map our core competencies within the network. I’ve always been a big fan of Social Network Analysis (SNA), and feel we are leaving a lot of […]
Getting the right hands on the right data is the goal.
Getting the right hands on the right data is the goal. Conversations are the bonus. On January 27, 2016, the City of Orlando launched the first event of its kind and assembled a multi-stakeholder community of interest to examine the data associated with a thorny social epidemic: Violence Against Women. In May 2015, the White […]
The Roar of the Crowd
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the infamous “Ray Rice elevator video” released by TMZ. In the video, pro football star Ray Rice was seen with his then-fiancée, knocking her unconscious with a single, hard blow to her face. As horribly upsetting as that video was, it had an unintended, yet fortunate consequence: it got […]
The Power of Community Comes to Life at SAP’s TechEd
Walking down one of the cavernous halls at the Palazzo hotel in Las Vegas, we approached one of my Enterprise Irregular (EI) colleagues, David Dobrin. Dobrin looked surprised to see me and said, “What are you doing here?” I said, “I’m here to learn!” Yes, I attended my first SAP TechEd this week and this is […]
Change Agents Go to Washington!
Drowning in paperwork? Demoralized by endless meetings where you sit and sit and sit, and have no voice? Tired of performance management reviews that have little to do with your potential or passion? Frustrated by knowledge that buries itself in graveyards of email thread coffins? Then, we have a workshop for you. Come get […]
Smarter Innovation: Road Map to the Future
Last spring, we were approached by the Academic Director of Columbia University’s Graduate Information and Strategy program, Katrina Pugh. She had received word about the innovative way our Change Agents work out loud in the cloud. We were asked to contribute to a management book published recently by ARK Group, “Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive […]
Reason #30 Why We Can’t Change: We Don’t Have the Time
My friends and colleagues at Change Agents Worldwide are kicking off a “blog carousel” to address all these reasons why organizations can’t change. This list was carefully compiled by a Product Engineer of the Milwaukee Gear Company in 1959. These objections still live on today in memos, meetings, analysis decks, and teleconference calls over a half-century […]
Successful Networks Require a Cross-Disciplinary Team
It should come as no surprise that a one-dimensional approach to network “deployment” will yield lackluster results. In the heyday of the Enterprise 2.0 movement, it was largely IT that introduced social networks to the workforce. The mistake that many customers made in those early days was viewing social networks as a technology platform vs. […]
Passion is No Ordinary Word
[This is a bit of an insider post. New blog readers, please bear with me.] Here’s a question: When did you first fall in love with Luis Suarez? For me, it was sometime in 2006 or 2007. I first wrote about him on my blog in 2007 after he unpacked a 7-part analysis of the […]
Are Social Practitioners and Evangelists Truly Different?
By Susan Scrupski on March 23, 2016
My friend, Alan Lepofsky, has always made this point, “Social people are different. The rest of the world is not like us.” Ironically, Alan and I get into the most hair-splitting among our pro-social circle of friends, but I’ve come to understand he is absolutely right about this. “We” are a different breed. The online […]
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