Common wisdom says that being a large company in a regulated industry somewhat forfeits your ability to conduct business in a social manner. There are just too many rules; it’s just too risky. Right? There is some truth to this belief, but we think there are several ways to engage. Think of social engagement in phases, balanced by the risk and reward of each.
As social tools become mainstream within organisations, inevitably businesses and users and going to have to deal with multiple platforms. A classic example would be the co-existance of a niche tool (such as a blog or wiki application) with a more complete social platform (such as Jive, Connections or SharePoint).
“Why don’t they understand that social media can help us work more efficiently? Those stupid corporate drones! I want to get it more widespread in the organisation but every time I hit this frustrating wall!”
Top performers need to learn quickly to advance their careers. It’s no longer acceptable to wait for our next performance review, often months away, to get critical insights on how we can improve. Managers often forget about important advice and it’s usually too late to do anything concrete about what we do hear!
This week is IBM’s annual collaboration conference called Lotusphere. IBM is an alliance partner of ours, so we asked Luis Benitez to write this guest blog piece for us to let us know what we’ll be seeing this week.
Let’s be honest with each other, Microsoft’s SharePoint 2007 isn’t the best kid in class with respect to being an Enterprise 2.0 or social media platform. Although the dedicated Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Social Computing website boasts the enterprise social computing features of SharePoint, it is a mere “what it should’ve been”, rather than what is being delivered.
With large corporations storing more and more data in their Enterprise 2.0 (and overall IT) systems, we have the danger of getting big data silos or disparate solutions. To make matters worse, they are often stored locally in systems that are owned by different business units with different purposes.
Not too long ago there was a marketer, who was obsessively focused on “the next big thing” and spent a great deal of his budget on the latest fads; his only ambition was to be written up in Ad Age and Brandweek. He did not care for sales spreadsheets and customer databases did not interest him; the only thing that really interested him was to focus on the next brand campaign…
On March 18, SOMESSO and Headshift/Dachis Group will host Europe’s first Social Business Summit; an invitation-only event in the city of London, which is aimed at business and technology thought leaders interested in the future of social business design.
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.