Category: Digital Workplace

Change, Change Agents, Digital Workplace, Future of Work, Leadership, Working Out Loud

Change Agents Go to Washington!

Drowning in paperwork? Demoralized by endless meetings where you sit and sit and sit, and have no voice? Tired of performance management reviews that have little to do with your potential or passion? Frustrated by knowledge that buries itself in graveyards of email thread coffins? Then, we have a workshop for you. Come get…
Change, Change Agents, Digital Workplace, Future of Work, Leadership, Working Out Loud

You Can’t Put a Price on Epiphanies

$17,000. That’s the estimated value of the free consulting I received during my seven days in the Green Room. But that doesn’t begin to capture the actual value of the experience. Because you can’t put a price on epiphanies. Or a mindset change. Or the increased excitement, confidence and enthusiasm I developed after working with…
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.…
Change Agents, Digital Workplace, Future of Work, Leadership

Reason #30 Why We Can’t Change: We Don’t Have the Time

My friends and colleagues at Change Agents Worldwide are kicking off a “blog carousel” to address all these reasons why organizations can’t change. This list was carefully compiled by a Product Engineer of the Milwaukee Gear Company in 1959. These objections still live on today in memos, meetings, analysis decks, and teleconference calls over a half-century…
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.…
Digital Workplace, Future of Work

Enterprise Social Networks – What you need to know

I reviewed Thursday’s upcoming webinar on ESNs hosted by Carrie Young and Harold Jarche. This is really one of the better webinars I’ve seen in a long while that explains in-depth, with real case study examples, the essentials about how working in an enterprise network matters deeply to a company. Don’t miss this one. Really.…
Change, Digital Workplace, Future of Work

Employee Engagement: Beyond Workplace Psychosis 2.0

I always have been an ardent supporter of true qualitative research. Yet, data IS interesting, specially when, considered under the right angle, it helps shedding a light on otherwise unnoticed facts and behaviors. A number is a number is a number Emanuele Quintarelli, when presenting the results of the Social Collaboration Survey he recently conducted among 300 Italian…
Change Agents, Digital Workplace, Leadership

Press Clip: The New Visionaries Q&A

Interview with GigaOm’s Stowe Boyd featuring Change Agents Worldwide‘s origins and mission. http://bit.ly/1hm0tW9 “The group’s vision is squarely centered on helping large companies transition from old world models established in the industrial era to modern network-based, agile models that improve not only the work experience for the workforce, but lead to top-line gains in innovation and growth.…
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, 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…