
Dachis Group Acquired by Sprinklr
Deal Is First Of Many As Digital Business Providers Consolidates On February 19th, Sprinklr announced the acquisition of Dachis Group. The acquisition will make Sprinklr the largest independent end-to-end Social Relationship platform in the market. While many will see this deal as a services play, the acquisition is significant in the for a few key […]

What’s Your Story?
Every social graph tells a story. In this sweeping visualization of nodes and connections, you can see the shape of my career history and relationships. This imprint of my LinkedIn social network was generated yesterday. You can see how new contacts and interrelationships jettisoned off from my base when I started to work at 7Summits. […]

Announcing Social Business By Design: The Strategic Guide to Enterprise Social Media
Our new business strategy book has just been published by Jossey-Bass this week and is now available in print and e-book online. It will also be in bookstores near you — depending on your specific locale — within the coming weeks. Co-authored by myself and Dachis Group Chief Strategy Officer Peter Kim, we have carefully […]

A Social Business Index Round-Up
By now many of my colleagues and a decent part of the tech press has had a chance to kick the tires and post their points of view on the grand opening of our new Social Business Index (SBI). For those that haven’t heard much about it yet, I’ll go through their useful contributions below. […]

The new Social Business Index seeks to bring enterprise insight to social media
Summary: New tools are emerging all the time to sift through social media and help companies determine their impact and relevance in the new medium. The freely available Social Business Index is a new melding of big data and social media to help companies get an comprehensive view of how they are represented in the world […]

Social Business needs a Cnut
Careful with that spelling (for some reason I preferred it to Canute or Kanute). Here is my premise. I think, like Clay Shirky, that we are living in a period of transformation rivalling the changes in society triggered by the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, photography, film, television, or the start of the Internet […]

Redesigning the Enterprise from the People Up
Top-down business process design is getting a bit of a bad rap at the moment, and deservedly so, say some. There’s a new meme in town called social business that says we should design enterprise systems around the people that…

Dachis Business Summit – you know, the Social one!
Now look. I have a real problem with the term “Social Business” as it’s being used by Dachis and IBM and others. However, let me put that to one side for another post later this week, but it’s a thread that starts here and runs through my thoughts on the London edition of the Dachis […]

Reflections on Social Business Summit 2011 – Syndey and Austin
Over the last year, the discussion of the many business uses of social media has been coalescing into an industry-wide, interdisciplinary conversation that’s increasingly focused around the moniker of ‘social business.’ This conversation — which many think provides the clearest perspective yet on how social computing is transforming how we work — has begun to […]
Going Rogue: Taking a Leap of Faith – in Humanity, the Social Web, and the Brilliance of Marshall Kirkpatrick
By Susan Scrupski on February 7, 2013
So, I’m alone again, naturally.* I have been letting friends know over the past few weeks that I resigned from my incredibly great new position at 7Summits. It was not them; it was me. The more I got into the thick of the work, I realized I am far too independent for a real day […]
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