Thanks to Thought Leaders
Blog PostTomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States and we thought we'd take the opportunity to recognize some of the people who have influenced our thinking.
Dachis Group Social Software Resource Wiki
Blog Post, Thought CapitalDachis Group researches, tracks, and utilizes many different technology tools on behalf of our clients. We thought it would be a good idea to share our initial efforts and ask for contributions to make it better.
Divide and Conquer to Solve the Business-IT Disconnect Problem
Blog Post“I’m fed up with our IT department. Why does it take 4 months to deliver a small project if I can have it right now and much cheaper as a hosted service?” “Why are those IT guys spending three years on an SAP roll out? I want them to focus on projects that has a
Awaiting Igon Valuation
Blog PostIn Steven Pinker’s eloquent review of Gladwell’s new collection of essays, he coins a new calamity – “the Igon Value Problem,” mocking Gladwell for his misunderstanding/misspelling of the term “eigenvalue” as igon value. The Problem, as defined by Pinker is, when a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt
Social Business Use Cases for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Blog PostThe fundamentals of social business design can be applied to many different sectors and to many different business processes. Whilst, by definition, those fundamentals remain constant, or at least relatively stable, the application of them can vary widely. What follows are just three quick, high-level, examples of how the pharmaceutical industry could use social business design to its advantage.
Leadership is Not Obsolete in the Networked World
Blog PostLast week, I gave a talk in Frankfurt at the impressive E20 Summit about leadership in devolved organisations. My starting point was the myth that leadership is somehow less important in new, networked organisations. Not so. If anything, it is more important than ever, but the focus and practice of leadership is changing; and if we are to engage leaders and involve them in the development of social business structures, then we need to be able to understand and address their challenges and issues using language that resonates with them.
FourSquare and Social Business Design
Blog PostJudging from the number of invites I'm getting for FourSquare these days, its slope of new users must be getting more vertical every day. After using FourSquare for a while, I've been thinking about its implications for business - and they're deeper than you might think, extending far beyond happy hours and local advertising opportunities.
A Tale of Two E20 Cities – From San Francisco to Frankfurt
Blog PostThe Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco event ended last week, handing over the baton to Europe for the E2.0 Summit in Frankfurt, which starts today. It looks like Kongress media have put together a good lineup and a very practical agenda, so I am looking forward to some intelligent discussions about the practice of enterprise social computing in Europe, rather than the kind of navel gazing, ideological debates that seemed to dominate in San Francisco.
Social Business Design. The Enterprise is Dead. Long Live the Enterprise.
Blog PostSocial Business Design: The Enterprise is Dead. Long Live the Enterprise. A Focused Enterprise for a Networked Economy.
Social Business Design for the Finance Sector
Blog PostThis post by Lee Bryant originally appeared on the Headshift blog, and contains Lee's talk at SOMESSO on Social Business Design for the Finance sector. Lee discusses workforce collaboration, customer participation, and service innovation in the finance industry, as well as the importance of measurable outcomes and connecting to business goals and objectives.