Collaboratory
The Collaboratory is our Social Business collaborative lab where we engage and explore an ongoing discussion, share thoughts, opinions, and ideas on Social Business.
The Path to Co-Creating a Social Business: The Early Adoption Phase
Blog PostThe figures vary but in the last several years a major change has begun in organizations around the world. Sometimes the efforts are small and unsanctioned, sometimes they are big and bold, but increasingly businesses are employing social media strategically to engage deeply with both their workers and customers. We see this all the time
Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
Blog PostHow do the overarching digital strategies of today's 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It's a question I've been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with how they are organizing around digital strategy in general. In this context I'm referring primarily to Web strategy -- including the various aspects of a business it touches -- since that's almost entirely where digital is headed as a whole. One of the aspects that stands out the most when I've worked with companies recently is that most traditional businesses often have a dramatically lower level of maturity around digital delivery of their capabilities than native Web firms. This despite it being almost twenty years since the Web arrived. It's clear there is significant impedance between the way digital business works and the way many companies still operate.
Social Business Strategy: The CIO Shortlist
Blog Post, The Connected CompanyOn and off over the last year on ebizQ, in an ongoing series for large enterprise CIOs, I’ve been exploring how social business has begun overtaking the ongoing transition to digital business in many companies. The majority of large organizations have been investing in their digital business capabilities for over a decade now with varying
The Social Enterprise: A Case For Disruptive Transformation
Blog PostOne of the watchwords of the 21st century, at least for the first decade, has been innovation. In a world that's clearly changing all around us at an ever increasing rate, actively pursuing new innovation has usually seemed like the best way for companies to ward off any accumulated failures to adapt to new realities.