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It’s the summer of 2014 and enterprise social networks are as hot in the market as they were a year ago. But there remain a handful of persistent myths and half-truths that organizations still encounter on the path to “working like a network.
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Hierarchy has become the bogeyman of the "future of work" movement. Listen to some commentators, and it sounds as if the honest worker in the corporation is being oppressed by power-crazed managers, hoarding information like Gollum with a hangover.
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Social Collaboration Hasn't Killed Publishing While intranets, as part of a wider digital workplace ecosystem, can mean different things to different organizations, even the most advanced and mature intranets include the simple requirement to publish information in a one to many mode: things like restaurant menus, the way to book
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Organizations looking to implement social solutions face common barriers to success : lack of defined purpose, absence of executive support, unsupportive work culture, poor implementation planning.
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In early 2013 Gartner published a report indicating 80 percent of Social Business efforts will not achieve their intended benefits through 2015. That is a staggering number and a bold prediction to say the least. Gartner can back up from the data unearthed during its extensive research into social business.
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Launching an Enterprise Social Networking Tool (ESN) can be daunting. But if you invite the right people to the initial launch, it can make a difference in the adoption and success of your ESN across your organization.
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Office 365 would be the first major beneficiary of Yammer integration, but SharePoint on-premises would see integration in future service pack releases. Microsoft would support SharePoint 2013’s out of the box social features for a period of time, but they would not be enhanced or developed further.
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After all, you can’t measure the value of a pop song. It makes you happy, sure. And we all know you can work better, run faster and just in general be more successful when you’re happy … but good luck trying to prove any of that.
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The ongoing demands of individual executives, archaic software evaluation processes and an obsessive focus on employees as productivity centers instead of human beings have turned collaboration into chaos, and social analytics into a spectator sport.
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The difficulties that companies have had in deploying enterprise social often start right at the beginning. It’s not hard to understand why choosing a product can be tough since most enterprise social networks look almost identical.
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When thinking of a mobile workforce people typically envision sales team “road warriors” or “Knowledge Workers” operating out of expensive cars or on planes, armed with flashy laptops, tablets and portable projectors.
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Intranet talk appears to be on a three-year hamster wheel in which we have come full circle. So what is it that causes this cycle? It may be caused by the failure of intranet professionals to point to the higher ground — an integrated and holistic employee experience strategy.
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In a week where we talked a lot about collaboration, it is probably appropriate to wrap up with a small announcement from Google Drive that should make Box or Dropbox pause for thought. The announcement appeared on the Google Enterprise blog during the week and concerns file share between Google Drive and Google+. In fact, what
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SAP is reconfiguring its social strategy around a new service called Jam that the vendor says will redefine enterprise social software. In a press conference today, SAP executives explained the methodology behind Jam and why they think it is a game-changer in the rapidly evolving enterprise social marketplace. Attending
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