Deloitte Center for the Edge has released a new white paper on “Social Software for Business Performance” (pdf) which offers some important and relevant advice to those attempting to adopt enterprise social software (ESS) in an organization. The advice applies equally to ACM. Continue reading
It seems like a platitude to say that team effectiveness is intertwined with individual effectiveness, but there is a surprising amount of sentiment contrary to this. I explore this, and explore an exciting new product in this post. Continue reading
This is a review of the book “The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion” by John Hagel, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison. Finally I find a book that speaks plainly about the dramatic change that we are going though, and how a fresh approach is needed to be successful. Continue reading
The 2011 BPM and Workflow Handbook will have a special topic of how business process is related to social technology. This series of handbooks is always filled with interesting and useful information, Continue reading
Links to interesting web pages I encountered in the last month or so. No particular order. Most are Social Business oriented, but some others mixed in.
Had a discussion couple of posts ago about how to ensure that workers are productive and do the right things. Found a quote from Peter Drucker that goes right to the heart of the issue of what is needed to manage knowledge workers. Continue reading
This is a review of the new book by Francois Gossieaux and Ed Moran called The Hyper-Social Organization; Eclipse Your Competition By Leveraging Social Media. This is not a technology book, but rather a good explanation of how consumers are changing due to prevalence of social technology, and what companies should do in order to thrive. Continue reading
Deploying enterprise social software (ESS) is easy compared to convincing people to use it. This post explores the difficulties that you may encounter in your organization, and some strategies that you might take in order to help the adoption curve go faster. Continue reading
Keith Harrison-Broninski has a new post today called “Social BPM and the new IT stack” where he considers each of his 5 principles of Human Interaction Management,and how each relates to Social BPM, leading to the conclusion that: Continue reading
Peter Fingar’s Jan 2011 column is “The Meaning of 21st Century Business: Unleashing the Power Within Using Social Networks” gives a perspective on where business finds itself in 2011, and how cloud and social computing relate Continue reading
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