Working out Loud for a Better World – Part I
It was about six years ago that the concept of “Working out Loud” started picking up traction in the blogosphere. It was an easy way to describe the contagious, fun way to work in a more transparent, generous, and authentic way. Of course, you needed a platform to work out loud on, but the tribe who was following […]
SMILE London Workshops 2016 – Enterprise Social Networks and more
Back on 12 May, Marc Wright of Simply Communicate kindly invited us to join in the latest version of his Social Media Inside the Large Enterprise London Workshops. The new format has 4 time slots each with 3 choices of workshop, so you could attend 4 out of 12. They covered a varied set of […]
How Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence Are Evolving the Digital/Social Experience
Digital engagement is once again shifting, as we can see from the main discussions at Facebook’s F8 conference this week about the new release of Messenger and its smart chatbots, or when we look at what’s happening with popular team messaging services like Slack, which is being “overrun by friendly, wonderful bots.” While bots seem […]
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 […]
Better Business Decisions: Assistive Technology
Throughout the day, every day, employees make decisions that have an impact on businesses. There are all sorts of decision and organizational models that are common, many that still cling to the old industrial (hierarchical) model of structuring and managing a business. In the information age making decisions is a critical business function of what […]
Cloud Software and Business Modernization Part Two: Customer Experience
Building and executing on a customer experience (CX) strategy is one of the most pressing areas of business modernization. The Internet has created new interaction models and channels, as well as created an expectation of immediacy. Companies are struggling to keep up with the expectations and new interaction models. The explosion of new and changing […]
Some Non-Predictions for 2015
It’s that time of new year when you get deluged with analysts / bloggers predictions and prognostications. I join in most years, and of course there’s the IDC predictions process to contend with as well. This year I swore that I was skipping it. I’ve already done the new IDC “Futurescape” document and webcast with my […]
Social Business and Digital Strategy
Social business, collaboration, community and content, is there real business value tucked away in those words? Digital transformation, digital strategy and digital disruption, are businesses really feeling the pressure to do somethings differently and by changing can they be more competitive, grow faster and be more successful? What’s different today that would help businesses unlock […]
Why is Good Customer Service So Difficult?
This could easily be a rant based on some recent customer service experiences but I’m going to avoid that and instead look at what companies are facing today in trying to meet customer expectations. I read recently that Comcast has finally appointed a VP to try and address their extremely poor customer service (I’d say […]
Is Collaboration Part of Your Customer Experience Strategy?
The conversation about customer experience as a business strategy continues to get lot’s of attention as companies struggle to figure out how to do business in a changing, consumer driven marketplace. A lot of these conversation have focused on the outward facing issues, changing marketing and sales or executing customer service in a new or […]
