Non-exempt Social Business

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How should businesses think about non-exempt employee participation in social business?

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Behind the scenes of social business

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Social business is easy to say, hard to do.

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Ostrich heads and horses’s asses

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The truth behind animal-based business metaphors.

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Don’t hate the player, or the game (mechanics)

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The five key elements of a game mechanics framework.

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Checking out of LBS

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My thoughts on the current direction for location-based services.

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Asset allocation and your marketing budget

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What percentage of your spend should be allocated to emerging channels, i.e. social media and mobile platforms? And within those channels, how should investments be directed? Instead of giving in to the most persistent sales person or using a dartboard to randomly make decisions, adapt an approach from financial services.

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Banking on the just noticeable difference

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Considering business strategy in the payments industry.

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Don’t Miss the Bigger Picture

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I’ve said before, that its interesting how people latch on to ‘Social Business’ but not ‘Social Business Design.’ It reminds me of both the long winded debates in the knowledge management community about the nature of ‘knowledge’ and in other circles when I’ve met marketing folks who only want to talk about promotion. In both cases, my reaction was that they were missing the bigger picture.

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Stories: A Powerful Asset for the Social Business

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Instead of being the creator of a well-honed message, the brand needs to focus on being the facilitator and curator of authentic, connective content, employing social technologies and processes that make it easy for everyone in the social business to tell and share stories.

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Your next best investment

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Use a next best investment approach in considering social commerce within your budget.

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