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.
An outsider’s thoughts on Enterprise 2.0 #e20 #e2conf
Blog PostI'm returning from TechWeb's latest Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. I first attended the event last summer and was curious to see how the space has evolved over the past 18 months. It's evolved quite a bit.
Internal Social Business – 2.0 Adoption: People in Progress
Blog Post, Case StudyThe 2.0 Adoption Council has been researching what’s happening on the ground inside of large organizations in the process of internal social business transformation. Along with IBM and MIT’s Center for Digital Business, we've created a series of short vignettes and company narratives on how large organizations are finding opportunities and challenges reinventing themselves. These initiatives are often led by a small team, sometimes a single individual who is driven to help the company work a better way — a more connected, dynamic and socially calibrated way of interacting for business.
Must be the money
Blog PostToday's social business landscape is much, much different than where the rise of social media began. It must be the money.
Football and Social Business Game Plans
Blog PostIt’s that time of year again… Football season. Here in Texas, football reigns King. As a native Texan born and bred, you can bet that football will consume my weekend from September through February. On Friday, Texans follow high school football. Saturday, you’ll find most of us watching college football (go Longhorns!). Sunday, the TV will be on from noon ‘til ten. And, on Monday after dinner, we round out the program with some Monday Night Football. This past weekend, while watching the Cowboys (alas, another loss) I started thinking about the striking similarities between Social Business and football. Would social business teams be more effective if we thought about them the way we think about football?
SXSWi 2011: Social Media Middlemen
Blog PostThe main office finally wants to activate social business programs - great. Now, are the front lines ready to follow through? This panel proposal for SXSWi 2011 will focus on getting the organization activated from top to bottom.
SXSWi 2011: Social Business Centers of Excellence
Blog PostInterested in learning more about social business "centers of excellence"? If so, you might like this panel proposed for SXSWi 2011.
Breaking the Measurement Cycle
Blog PostA question about measuring social initiative success is always met with a long response. For some, data collection is in-progress. But many borrow familiar metrics like clicks and counts to gauge success. Why are people stuck in this cycle? It's time to interpret the data from your initiatives in a meaningful way.
Communicating the Value of Social Business
Blog PostFor those who have been working in the social computing sphere the last few years, either externally or internally, it’s become abundantly clear to us that all business is becoming Social Business. For the rest of us who aren’t there yet, major change is still evident: The Web itself has become pervasively social as we’ve
The Advent of the Social Supply Chain
Blog PostI have been writing about and working with open supply chains for some years now, specifically how businesses are increasingly opening up their borders to much more dynamic, scalable, and valuable supply chain and partnership scenarios. Up until recently, the story of advancement when it came to supply chains has been one of technological improvement. Most recently, large enterprise suites and hand-crafted proprietary solutions have started to give way to SaaS and cloud approaches to supply chain management, which will be state of the art much sooner rather than later.
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.