As part of my trip to Los Angeles last week for IBF’s Intranet Breakfast with Disney/ABC and Toyota, I caught up with good friend, and Oracle Corporation Global Client Advisor, Joe Jorczak. In his role at Oracle, Joe consults with their top customers about business and technology trends and developments. We enjoyed a leisurely...
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Social Business is not new, but it has recently been moved to the top of many agendas. Why, and more importantly, why now? During his address to the 2011 Social Business Summit audience in Austin, Texas, JP Rangaswami, Salesforce Chief Scientist, eloquently explained that the reason that social business is now at...
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This post was inspired by Michael Idinopulos and his writing on why Companies Aren’t Communities. Why Enterprise Social Collaboration Efforts Fail. I’ve researched many failed enterprise social efforts. The formula is quite simple and almost always the same. If the focus is on the tools being used, the effort generally...
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Creating a collaborative enterprise is not easy. It involves getting management buy-in, implementing the appropriate processes and tools, and getting employees to openly adopt a new way of working. This first of a series of posts addresses the last, and I believe the most difficult, step in the process; driving...
Read moreThe Internet is full of content rated by users. One star for a meal over here. Five stars for this book over there. We have come to accept these ratings, assigned by people we don’t know and probably never will, as a reasonably reliable gauge of whether or not something...
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