Why do so few companies capture the full value of social technologies? There’s no doubt organizations have begun to realize significant value from largely external uses of social. 1 1. Roxane Divol, David Edelman, and Hugo Sarrazin, “ Demystifying social media ,” McKinsey Quarterly , April 2012. Yet internal […]
Six Keys for Your Social Collaboration Strategy
With a growing number of remote and geographically dispersed employees, travelers on the High Tech Highway are seeking new ways to engage, interact and collaborate. One of the fastest growing solutions continues to be social collaboration. In today’s Roundup, […]
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Are False Promises Making Enterprise Unified Communications Technology Fall Short?
False Promises – Enterprise Unified Communications The majority of businesses have at least some basic form of enterprise unified communications in their organization. In a study done by ZK Research, they found that while 43% of businesses have basic Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) technologies and tools, only 5% […]
Think Of UC&C Like You Would ERP
This is the second post in a monthly series from Dimension Data and Cisco Channels looking at user adoption and integration of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions. Findings stem from Dimension Data’s 2013 Global UC&C Survey , developed with ICT researcher Ovum and featuring responses from more than […]
The 9X Email Problem
One of the benefits of being an academic is the ability to attend seminars that seem to have nothing to do with your own work. A while back I heard John Gourville , a colleague in HBS’s Marketing department , talk about his research investigating why so many new […]
Why We Use Social Media in Our Personal Lives — But Not for Work
by Tammy Erickson | 12:05 PM February 16, 2012 “We’ve spent a fortune on collaborative technology, but no one is using it … or if they are, it’s for purely social, non-productive activities.” Sound familiar? It’s a lament I’ve heard many times from organizations over the past several years. Most […]
Change Management: 5 Best Practice Techniques to Drive Adoption
Print Email Page RSS Feeds Posted Date: 10/16/2013 By Chris Morrison, COO, TradeStone Software. Technology has brought a wave of innovation to the retail world over the past 25 years. It has also given retailers greater visibility into and control over their products than they ever thought possible. This technology […]
10 Keys to Pervasive Video Conferencing
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How companies can use social networks to learn who knows what
Meetings around the watercooler or over lunch are as traditional as the workplace suit and tie. But today, companies are looking for more innovative ways to bring employees together. Connecting people with different kinds of knowledge fosters new services and ideas, says Paul Leonardi, a professor of communication at […]
Social Zombieism – not really dead, but for sure not part of the living either
We’ve seen it before — many times — people start social media initiatives with good intentions, but a large number of them die out due to lack of engagement and participation, among other things. Blogs, wikis, communities — you name it, there are so many examples, and it is […]