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Patrick Sansom

RSA - Re-Imagining Work: Shifts in the digital revolution - 1 views

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    Speaking at a free public event organised by the RSA, Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer at Microsoft, imagines what might be possible if more organisations embraced the full, empowering potential of technology and encouraged a truly open, collaborative and flexible working culture.
bethgranter

Conversational Leadership - 0 views

  • Conversational leadership takes root when leaders see their organiza- tions as dynamic webs of conversation and consider conversation as a core process for effecting positive systemic change. Taking a strategic approach to this core process can not only grow intellectual and social capital, but also provide a collaborative advantage in our increasingly networked world.
bethgranter

They Built It, but Employees Aren't Coming - 0 views

  • Are companies that have made headway in introducing a social collaboration platform into their enterprise having success getting employees to participate?
  • According to one recent study not really.
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  • Another noteworthy result: when asked what function in the company “owns” social, the highest response was IT (cited by 74.5%) and the second was “Corporate Communications (not marketing),” cited by 38.2%. While the fact that IT was listed first is not at all surprising, the fact that Corporate Communications was also so highly ranked indicates that this function may be carvin
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  • leader in social, and where it is seen as playing an important role.
  • Answering this important question — how to provide enough value to get employees to engage and participate — is going to be vital for firms as they try to move their social initiatives from experimental phases to a place where real strategic value is created.
Maddy Wood

The $1.3 Trillion Price Of Not Tweeting At Work | Fast Company - 0 views

  • Among CEOs of the world’s Fortune 500 companies, a mere 20 have Twitter accounts.
  • As social media spreads around the globe, one enclave has proven stubbornly resistant: the boardroom.
  • A new report from McKinsey Global Institute, however, makes the business case for social media a little easier to sell. According to an analysis of 4,200 companies by the business consulting giant, social technologies stand to unlock from $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in value. At the high end, that approaches Australia’s annual GDP. How’s that for a bottom line?
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  • Two-thirds of the value unlocked by social media rests in “improved communications and collaboration within and across enterprises,”
  • Far from a distraction, in other words, social media proves a surprising boon to productivity.
  • Social technologies have the potential to free up expertise trapped in departmental silos. High-skill workers can now be tapped company-wide. Managers can find out “which employees have the deepest knowledge in certain subjects, or who last contributed to a project and how to get in touch with them quickly,” says New York Times tech reporter Quentin Hardy.
  • the report suggest that tools like Yammer are the tip of the iceberg. Right now, only five percent of all communications and content use in the U.S. happens on social networks, mainly in the form of content sharing and online socializing. But McKinsey analysts point out that almost any human interaction in the workplace can be "socialized"--endowed with the speed, scale, and disruptive economics of the Internet.
  • echoed of late from the most authoritative of places: Wall Street
  • Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, and even Ellison’s own Oracle--have spent upward of $2.5 billion snatching up social media tools to add to their enterprise suites. Even Twitter-phobic CEOs may have a hard time ignoring that business case.
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    A new report from McKinsey Global Institute makes the business case for social media a little easier to sell. According to an analysis of 4,200 companies by the business consulting giant, social technologies stand to unlock from $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in value. At the high end, that approaches Australia's annual GDP. How's that for a bottom line?
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