Congratulations! Your company has implemented an enterprise social network. You drummed up excitement with your fancy launch campaign, created initial content on the platform and training material to help your colleagues understand the why and the what. Yet after the initial hype, interest and activitity […]
There is a lot of talk about how 20th century organisations need to change to be successful in the 21st century. And when we say organisations need to change, we actually mean people, as they make up and shape organisations. Change is a process, not […]
Summary: In this post I present a change tactic to help executive management see the value of their company’s enterprise social network without risk and time commitment. Many employees only know the name of their CEO and that he probably earns lots of money. That […]
In a previous blog post I looked at WHY and HOW managers, especially executive managers, could and should use their company’s enterprise social network or social intranet. In this post I describe WHAT they can do to quickly get started. Quick recap from the previous […]
Recently, an article over at Business Insider caught my attention. It was titled: This Startup Forbids Meetings On Wednesdays. It talks about the task management startup Asana and how it introduced the ‚No Meeting Wednesday‘ policy to allow employees to focus on getting work done in […]
We just published an article (in German) in the Community of Knowledge called ‚Einführung von sozialen Technologien im Unternehmen – Erfolgsfaktor Mensch‚. It looks at a variety of barriers to introducing social tools in the enterprise and presents strategies on how to overcome them. In particular, […]
[ I originally published this post on the tibbr blog in 2012. ] In my previous post, I promised to elaborate on one of the three pillars of successful adoption – people. Changing people’s behaviour is hard, but not impossible. It just takes more thought than some blunt […]
[ I originally published this post on the tibbr blog in 2012. ] This week the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on unlocking the value and productivity through social technologies. While it was light on actionable recommendations, it provides a superb overview of how social technologies impact both […]
[ I originally published this post on the Dachis Group blog in 2012. ] Let me ask you a question: are you still in touch with a company where you worked previously? I assume most of you are, but who you are in touch with: HR? External […]
[ I originally published this post on the Headshift blog in 2009. ] Recently I had the opportunity to present one of our case studies at the Social Media for Business Meetup Group in NYC. It was the inaugural meetup, which I am co-organizing together with Daniel […]