“A successful Enterprise Social Network implementation is less about technology and more about the cultural and process transformation that needs to happen for management and employees to embrace a new, more social way of working. That is where Andy and the Enterprise Strategies team come in — they are seasoned business advisors and change architects. They don’t make the software, they make sure you get business value from it.”
“Our employees told us we needed better digital collaboration. To that end, we partnered with Enterprise Strategies to strategize, plan and launch a proof-of-concept for Yammer as our internal social network, beginning with our annual Global Conference for our 300 top executives. Enterprise Strategies provided invaluable community management support by answering questions, connecting colleagues, and creating help materials to increase Yammer adoption. Following real-time support during the Global Conference, ES helped facilitate a week of live Strategy Jams on Yammer with global leaders answering live questions about our new firm strategy. Our Yammer proof-of-concept with ES achieved all our primary goals, created strong business cases and generated ongoing interest in using Yammer worldwide.”
“We live in the details and research every investment. The internal social strategy that Enterprise Strategies created for us was backed by a thorough internal assessment, meticulous external research and has stood up to several rounds of executive scrutiny. It is exactly the kind of detailed, professional study we needed to make a well-justified decision and convince our executives to invest.”
“The social strategy that Enterprise Strategies created for us was the first to ever be approved by our Executive Leadership Team. Their real-world business knowledge, and detailed understanding of management concerns and objectives, differentiates them from others who focus solely on the social aspect of social business.”
“Before starting our intranet redesign we brought in Enterprise Strategies to do a quick assessment and provide specific improvement recommendations. The analysis, insights and real world examples of what other companies were doing was valuable and easy-to-understand. Andy and the team provided the experience-based outside opinion we needed to elevate our project for final approvals. I really appreciated their fresh perspective as well as the forward-thinking, pragmatic recommendations they provided.”
“One of the biggest contributing factors to the success of our enterprise social network was the executive mentoring Enterprise Strategies provided us. Being able to sit down with our executives and explain social benefits and best practices in context of their business and using their language was invaluable. The feedback I received was very positive and we saw the usage of our enterprise social network increase tenfold in 6 months.”
“We started with the goal of creating a better internal social and digital environment for our colleagues that would ultimately help drive sales and increase client satisfaction. Enterprise Strategies delivered the comprehensive strategy we needed and then worked alongside of us to make it happen.”
“When I needed to brief our Chief Investment Officer on how other companies were benefiting from social intranets and enterprise social networks, and what each could do for us, we hired Andy (Enterprise Strategies) to conduct a half day workshop for her and her directs. At the end of the workshop, she hired him to come back a week later and do the same for our CEO.”
“We hired Andy to keynote our annual global communicators offsite (35 people representing 23 countries) and conduct an intranet design workshop. His 90 minute keynote received a 95% positive rating. The intranet design workshop scored 100%.”
“While several consultancies provide social media and social business strategy, few have been able to craft and help implement a companywide social transformation, tying ‘social’ solutions to meaningful business objectives. Having worked in several large firms and served as a trusted advisor for others, Jankowski understands, first-hand, the complexities involved in implementing a new way of working which is vital when making such a major change as strategically instituting ‘social’ structures and systems company wide. Yet that is, by far, the best way for companies to harness its social power and to bypass the pitfalls of smaller, sometimes conflicting internal social initiatives. The devil is in the details. Andy’s understanding of these details as well as his approach of proactive executive prepping through the social transformation ensures that his suggested stages of social change are actually implemented and sustained. He lives up to his company promise, to ‘operationalize social business’ in firms.”