Tag: social collaboration

There have been many attempts over the last year to define what a social business is. IBM, Salesforce.com and many other enterprise software companies are spending a significant amount of money on advertising and marketing, trying to educate business owners of the benefits and values a social business offers. Yet for all their efforts, I […]

A couple of weeks ago, I had an opportunity to speak on a panel at Business Development Institute‘s Social Media Marketing Summit for Law Firms. It was a very well executed event with approximately 200 law firm professionals in attendance.

In order for an organization to truly become a social business, the culture has to be right. Social tools enhance transparency within an organization. There is no more hiding behind email or highly structured business silos. Social tools, especially Enterprise Social Networks (“ESN”), have the functionality that make it possible for every employee in an […]

Has the effective transfer of tacit knowledge become a reality? Thirteen years ago we lived in a different world. The hot buzzword back then was Knowledge Management. KM as defined by Wikipedia “comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organisation to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences […]

Launching a successful Enterprise Social Network (“ESN”) is not about technology. It’s about people Let me repeat that. Launching a successful Enterprise Social Network is not about technology. It’s about people. As a social business consultant, I have been a part of ESN deployments at three different companies. The first one did not go great. The […]

By now most companies are aware of the value of social media marketing. Many companies have set up their presence on the public social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube… Some are even taking advantage of the newer social networks such as Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr. Marketers are busy monitoring their brands and writing remarkable content […]

Sponsorship is not the same as leadership. When working with clients, one question I always ask before I take on a project is “what is the level of support and involvement that your executives plan to have?” The answer I usually get is that the executives have committed to be major sponsors or supporters of the […]

Back in December of 2011, Pernod Ricard USA hired me as a consultant. They hired me to help them build and deploy what they called, “a Facebook type application for our employees.” A few weeks after being there and after spending some time meeting and interviewing the key stake holders I came to the realization […]

I recently attended an exclusive event in NYC where  Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com introduced the concept of “How to Become a Customer Company.” It is the new vision for Salesforce.com that Benioff is trying to sell and it focuses on “the customer” as the key mission for every company. The customer revolution will […]

The concept of employee collaboration has been around for a while. Twelve years ago while working at KPMG, we were trying to figure out how to build a knowledge management system that would allow employees to share knowledge and locate experts within the company. We spent a huge amount of time figuring out taxonomies and […]

The time is now! Now is the time to figure out how you can integrate social technologies into your business. We are way past the “social media is a fad” stage. Social is real and its here to stay. According to a recent study conducted by McKinsey on how social technologies are extending the organization, […]