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The Smart Growth Manifesto – Umair Haque – HarvardBusiness.org
Here’s a suggestion for what should be at the top of agenda of every decision-maker across the economy, from Davos, to Obama, to Sand Hill Road, to the revolutionaries in tiny garages hatching tomorrow’s Googles: reconceiving growth.
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Top Enterprise 2.0 Tips for Improving Workforce Collaboration in 2009 | SocialComputingMagazine.com
And now, in this final segment, we’re learning from the folks who have seen the successes and failures of implementing Enterprise 2.0 technologies first hand, as they share their Top Enterprise 2.0 Tips for improving workforce collaboration in 2009. As one would expect, these tips might conflict with one another, since each CEO has a different vision for the needs in the industry and a different idea of how best to fulfill them. Hopefully, as 2009 progresses, we’re going to hear more and more differentiation from each of these players as they struggle with the threat of commoditization.
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Start with groups who have a real business
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Know what you’re trying to accomplish before you even start
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Have a business need. You must solve a current communication issue for your organization.
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Look for groups who are enthusiastic early adopters and willing to change habits
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Look for tools that break the desktop-centric notion that documents (and those don’t have to be word processing documents – they can be all sorts of different things) need to be shipped around by email.
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you must relate the uses of the solution with an existing process
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You must “build heroes” into the tool.
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Find a person that can be the leader, the “champion”, and try it on a small scale in different areas of the company
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When you introduce a new technology, it’s important that you extend the value of an existing one,
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“[...] here’s the main point: That culture is, in my view, the most overlooked, underestimated factor determining whether social media succeeds or fails in a company. And when corporate culture and social media are pitted against each other, social media will always fail. Always.”
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A User’s Guide to 21st Century Economics – Umair Haque – HarvardBusiness.org
The need for boardrooms to to reconceive and reinvent business was never more urgent than it is today – because the clock is ticking. The new rules we’ve discussed at length over the last year or so aren’t the only ones out there: there are plenty more in store for radical innovators. But the time to do so is now: by the end of 2009, our expectation is that organizations that aren’t powered by at least 2-3 new rules will start going slowly but surely extinct.
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