May 13th, 2013
“This is just Facebook for the Enterprise” is the most common way most people describe enterprise social networking platforms. After all, the look and feel of those platforms borrow a lot from the Facebook interface: status updates, @mentioning, groups, walls, profile pictures, direct messages, and so on. However, when implementing a social networking platform at [...]
April 22nd, 2013
In my book, The Collaborative Organization, I featured a maturity model that Chess Media Group created based on our client experience and research. The purpose of the maturity model is to help organizations where they are today, where they should go in the future and the value of doing so, and how to get there. [...]
April 8th, 2013
McKinsey just released some more research on the use of social and collaborative technologies within the enterprise. Not surprisingly they found that adoption levels are continuing to climb and are almost double what they were in 2009. The more important finding from the research they conducted was that organizations are moving beyond the experimentation phase [...]
March 18th, 2013
My Merced Group business partner, Catherine Shinners, has published a useful series on Enterprise Social Networking Mindshifts. As McKinsey has shown there is a lot of value to working with social tools and processes. Yet, as Catherine notes, according to a report released by Ovum last week, there's only about a ten percent (10%) adoption [...]
February 25th, 2013
If you have one of the newer versions of the iphone then you are more than likely familiar with Siri; the “personal assistant” on your phone that you can talk to get help with anything from directions to recipes. Unfortunately the concept is at this point, much more valuable than Siri itself. Now while Siri [...]
February 4th, 2013
Towards the end of last year I wrote a post on the eight variables to evaluate enterprise collaboration vendors which you should read before continuing with this post. Today I want the vendor evaluation discussion a bit further with something that I actually wrote for CMSWire a few weeks ago on scoring and comparing vendors. [...]
January 14th, 2013
It is with great pleasure that I share with you some exciting and hopefully helpful news. Salesforce and Altimeter Group recently collaborated on a special project to help executives understand the real impact of social media and in turn how to lead meaningful and lucrative transformation. The result is The Little Blue Book of Social [...]
December 27th, 2012
Big hat tip to Patrick Allman from Mango Apps for getting my attention to this! According to IDC the enterprise social software market was just shy of $800 million in 2011 which represented a growth of 40% when compare to the previous year and a growth of 100% when compared to 2009. In this case, [...]
December 3rd, 2012
There is a lot of talk about changing leadership styles in response to shift from tangible to intangibles assets becoming the most significant source of value to enterprises. In addition, McKinsey has shown that the lower the decision making in an organization, the higher the operating margin. All of this calls for new leadership models [...]
November 12th, 2012
A few weeks ago I spoke at a conference in Arizona with Robert Scoble. I also spent some time with Robert over the course of the few days we were there together. Robert stopped blogging a few months ago and even though his blog always did well, he shifted his attention over to Facebook which [...]
Enterprise Social Networking Platforms: Think Amazon, Not Facebook