Category: Adoption

Adoption, Change, Digital Workplace, Future of Work

Beyond Adoption to Value Creation

A great deal of attention in enterprise social networking has gone into ‘driving adoption’. A focus on adoption can distract organisations from the real challenge of any business activity, creating value in fulfilment of the organisation’s strategy. Adoption is an intermediate goal Adoption is a means to an end. Adoption is a tool of value creation.…
Adoption, Change, Future of Work

Voices Of The Corporate People

How can organizations become “social”? Adapting companies to the social economy so they can meet the requirements of empowered and connected customers requires some massive internal transformation. Even when leaders understand the necessity to shift away from old models and modernize their organizations, they hardly know where to start. To decide to join the social dance…
Adoption, Change

Be prepared

“I read your bio and watched your video about rebels,” the CEO said to me yesterday during our first meeting. “I just want to let you know that we squash that kind of person around here.” What an interesting introduction to a company hiring me to facilitate their growth strategy planning. Like all good change…
Adoption, Change Agents, Digital Workplace, Future of Work, Leadership

Successful Networks Require a Cross-Disciplinary Team

It should come as no surprise that a one-dimensional approach to network “deployment” will yield lackluster results. In the heyday of the Enterprise 2.0 movement, it was largely IT that introduced social networks to the workforce. The mistake that many customers made in those early days was viewing social networks as a technology platform vs.…
Adoption

Decrease of Interest in Enterprise Social Software Signals a Shift from Tool to Behavior

Recent news stories say fewer customers are buying and vendors are less interested in enterprise social software today. Why? Data from the recent report The Digital Workplace in the Connected Organization 2014 tell the story: Early Adopters have bought. They are now focused on learning to work in new ways. The Majority are in “wait…
Adoption, Change, Change Agents, Digital Workplace, Leadership, Working Out Loud

New e-Book from Change Agents Worldwide

We’re pleased to release this collection of essays from a variety of our Change Agents who are changing the world of work. Whether they’re independent (Solo Change Agents) or working as part of a large organization (Enterprise Change Agents), 21 of our network members have provided their unique wisdom on what organizations can do to…
Adoption, Change

You Can’t Add a Collaboration Layer

Collaboration is human-to-human interaction. We are rich, creative and diverse, given the chance. You can’t add a collaboration layer to your existing processes. Collaboration is not something that helps with the work. Collaboration is not something you integrate into your existing systems. Collaboration requires a fundamental rethink of the way work gets done. Collaboration is…
Adoption, Change, Change Agents, Digital Workplace, Leadership

Passion is No Ordinary Word

[This is a bit of an insider post. New blog readers, please bear with me.] Here’s a question: When did you first fall in love with Luis Suarez? For me, it was sometime in 2006 or 2007. I first wrote about him on my blog in 2007 after he unpacked a 7-part analysis of the…
Adoption, Change, Digital Workplace, Leadership, Working Out Loud

Enterprise Social Network Haiku – of Course!

http://www.haikudeck.com/e/zyiBjGpBxO Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app for iPad Change Agent Rainer Gimbel is leading change for Evonik Industries AG, a leader in the Specialty Chemicals industry. To convince 33,000 colleagues to change work habits they’ve used for the last 10-15 years, requires a lot of evangelizing, change management and sometimes… poetry.
Adoption, Leadership

Social Business: Pining for the Fjords!

“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it… It’s dead!” So, which is it dead or not dead? There is so much confusion in the market about what “Social Business” is, it might as well be a dead parrot (too). And there is no shortage of people who come at this conversation with a perspective…