We are making an exciting announcement today about a new partnership with Jive Software that will help further develop Social Business and to develop industry-specific capabilities which will help our customers more effectively achieve their business objectives through the combined use of social software and strategy.
We choose business partners because of their competency, resources and reliability. They become a critical lynchpin in delivering value to the customer. Whether it is a strategic R&D partner or an independent truck driver moving your good across the continent, isn’t it time to think about those relationships in a Social Business Design light?
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Dion Hinchcliffe and I were in New York this week and stopped by Stowe Boyd’s Social Business Edge conference. Much in the same spirit of our own Social Business Summit in Austin, this conference was a single day and densely packed with some of the best speakers I have heard in years. The speaking slots were kept short and the pace was fast.
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference hosts a startup launchpad every year that has proven to be a great way for high quality Enterprise 2.0 focused startups to get in front of a group of potential partners, analysts, press and customers. In return, the Enterprise 2.0 conference audience has a chance to see the most promising and innovative enterprise Social Business software coming to the market.
Enterprise microblogging has been gaining in popularity in the last year. Companies like Socialtext, Socialcast, Status.net and others have developed some absolutely stunning and low cost enterprise platforms. Each of these platforms has a rich set of APIs and can be customized with varying degrees of flexibility.
We have just wrapped up a very successful Social Business Summit in Austin. The day was packed with great speakers and we are grateful to each and every person who came out to the event.
Today we are announcing a new partnership with Socialtext, an enterprise social software platform developed to enable Social Business.
I wrote about The Personal Enterprise earlier. It is a term that has been around for a while, but which is coming in to its own with Social Business Design as a foundation that helps answer a lot of the questions that the original concept left open.
The effectiveness of an Organizational Design exercise depends on the fit of process, structure and behaviour that make up the organization and how they are aligned with both existing and desired future capabilities.
In looking at better ways that an organization can operate, we often look at the current service delivery model. How are services shared, delivered and managed? Which functions and resources are centralized and which are distributed? Does centralization mean less flexibility? Does distribution mean less reliability?
Jevon Macdonald Jevon MacDonald is a Principal at Dachis Group. He blogs at socialwrite.com and can be found on twitter (@jevon) See his full profile here.