9 posts tagged Social Business Design

Adding fuel to our growing Social Business Design practice, I’m pleased to announce that we have added several new consultants and associates to our North American team led by Managing Director Peter Kim. We are lucky to welcome Caroline Dangson, Cynthia Pflaum, Tom Cummings, Bryan Kotlyar, Kate Rush Sheehy and Amanda Johnson all who bring exceptional analytical, research, and programatic development skills to our consulting and operations teams and come to us from respected firms including: Forrester Research, IDC, and Yankee Group. These additions enable us to better service our expanding client base enabling them to move forward to become more socially calibrated, collaborative, connected organizations.

Today we are announcing the hiring of our new CFO April Downing.

Dachis 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.

Social Business Design: The Enterprise is Dead. Long Live the Enterprise. A Focused Enterprise for a Networked Economy.

This 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.

There has been a lot of debate about the terminology surrounding social computing, social software, Enterprise 2.0 and Social business design, as Peter Kim talked about here recently.
For me, the key issue is whether or not you believe software alone is sufficient to engineer fundamental business change. In some cases, perhaps it can; but in [...]

How do you refer to “this space”? If you’re from a marketing or communications background, you likely refer to “Social Media Marketing.” If you’re from an IT background, you likely refer to “Enterprise 2.0.” There’s nothing wrong with these terms, but it’s time for us to straighten out terminology, especially when it comes to Social Business Design.

Social Business Design is the intentional creation of dynamic and socially calibrated systems, process, and culture. It uses a framework of four mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive archetypes: ecosystem, hivemind, dynamic signal, and metafilter.

Dachis Group believes that the future of business lies in the intentional creation of dynamic and socially calibrated business systems, process, and culture that empower all of its constituents to exchange value.
So what is the Collaboratory? Part collaboration space, part laboratory on Social Business Design, it’s where we invite our ecosystem to engage us. [...]